The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-04-19


 to elevate to the pedestal of our re- verence quite other ideals. We re- gard those who do not worship as we worship, who have not the faith as We have it, who subject their emotions to a control of intelligence and who refuse to admit the pos session of such overmastering sen timents as are ours, evil, plotting, naughty persons without gratitude and loyalty. We are ready to call them, as Isaiah called his people when they refused to respond to the efforts were his to drive them with their reused emotions stiff necked Jews.
 Necks that must be pended in sub mission to the mightier will that was already bowed down before Olympus and which hearkened to the Delphian oracle, or had read the auspices in the bowels of the slaughtered, are those who would not return with the crowd to olden time superstitions that laid their icy grip upon the soul or branded with red hot terrors the quivering human breast.
 Yet it may we'll be that today we are revealing only throughout the world the real savagery of our civilization in our reversion to superstition. Have not we always, even under the hypocritical pretense of being enlightened and civilized, worshipped force. And when such has been a worship, latent, dormant but always potentially alive, it was as natural that those primal in- stincts, born of the uncertainties of existence and the struggle against natural ills that surrounded man. kind in the cradle of it's career, should as well be potentially alive, even though concealed by a veneer of reasoned action and intelligent direction.
 The inability of reasoning beings i'll every country to rid themselves of those hereditary sentiments has been amply evidenced among the greatest as the most shallow think CTS; and it may we'll be that the tr~o, ic n,,1rr rn when strife and turmoil have worn the veneer and stripped our souls of our apparent enlightenment, when even the sham of phrasemak- ing and platitude forging no longer serve.
 The stranger in a strange lano intelligently analyses the customs institutions, social movements, aims, ambitions, conventions, popular re- ligious which he sees around him He sees their absurdity and the de gradation to which they lead But he is free to do so because he re- mains unobsessed by the feelings which animate the people he criti- cizes.
 Yet it may we'll be that those whom he criticized might as easily subject his own country to the same sort of intelligent if erosive criti- cism.
 Thus Minister Wu Ting Fang when a representative of China al Washington, told a lady in reply to her question that he saw nothing more inhuman in a China woman binding her feet that they might be small than was the action of a woman of fashion in western coun- tries lacing her waist so that il might be of the proper proportions, Many person may have seen Europeans stand in suppressed awe at religious procession where ban ners and incense and crosses func- toned to impress his mind. Yet those same Europeans have been known to jeer and ridicule similar processions when carried out by Brahmins on a Hindu festival, or Mohamedans on a Sacred Friday.
 We can easily see the mote in our neighbours eye, and subject it to acrid criticism while failing to ob- serve the beam in our own. Scratch a Russian and you find Tartar is of universal application. Scratch a reasoning being with the nail of na- tionalism and you find the tribal savage every time.
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