The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-02-05

 sents an unbearable and insuffer- able condition which cannot be to- lerated. International jurists have developed a code of laws which have everyone of them been subjected to rival interpretation, and it is not the least valuable and instructive characteristic in the lnterposition of such international jurisprudence, that the nation which today asserts a precedent will be the one tomor- row to repudiate it. This has been the case when the positions of one or the other nations changed or were reversed. and thus it is that Great Britain with the facility of the casuist has no difficulty in placing before the government of the United States in answer to Americas objec- tions, cases which developed during the civil war between the Northern and Southern States and which cases were declared unJustifiable by Great Britain itself. International Law, and especially as far as the sea is concerned, has been living exposition of the truth of the sophist that Justice is the interest of the stronger, and the great trouble with the German standpoint is that it's | boat activities have been as yet unable to satisfy international law and International ethics, because mainly of the fact that the nations are not satisfied that Germany is the stronger. The Entente nations strength. They have won no battles, but they have at least kept German ships off the sea. Germany's strug- gle for existence presents itself in the unprosaic form of the excluded and as such not free to develop pecuniary relations of the same striking force that is possible to the Entente especially to Great Britain.
 At all points, indeed. quite re- gardless of ethical questions or questions of common sense equity, the interests of Germany and the United States clash on this subma- rine question. Nor is it to be doubt ed for one instant that this actual clash has been unobserved in Der lin.
 While nations may make much ado about right and wrong. nations in reality seldom hypnotize them selves into the belief that questions of right and wrong instead of gain and loss, will be the direct ing force of national and interna- tionai movements. It is certainly far from likely that the philosophy of German diplomacy would 80 far err in interpreting the handspring of American policies with the facts so clearly and so candidly admit ted.
 For this reason the German diplo mats admitted the possibility of a break, long before it was admitted by Lansing, and we can as we'll con clude that Berlin had fully made up it's mind that such break, with War as the final outcome, T@l of Germany.
 It is ridiculous to contend that the United States neutral was even more objectionable than the United States an enemy. That is not held by any nation. The United States may be militarist, but the United States can become militarist with far greater ease than any other nation in the world. Conscription is in the hands of the President. The Dick Law gives him absolute power over the drafting of males of mili- tary age. And with endless resour. ces at it's beck and call, there is no sane person, least of all is there a sane German, who would think that with the United States an enemy, could victory be even re- motely possible.
 There is a possibility that the German people are tired of the wal and see in the entry of the United States into the quarrel the entry oi friend who in the peace councils would take no mean part, and light. otherwise be determined upon. It is not likely that the German govern