The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-01-09
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

Whether the proposed legislation passes or not. the workers will have 10 judge the democratic party by the administration measures and the proposed compulsory arbitration le- gislation is directly such a measure.
 It is worth while, therefore, call ing attention to the fact that this democratic party is doing precisely as Big Business expects it to do in it's interests, and to take steps to enforce oppressive measures against labor, so that all power of organized labor, upon the economic field could be suppressed.
 We will hear it said that labor combinations should be permitted no more privilege in the matter of com binations than capital. But, the plain and very obvious fact is that nothing is done, nothing was done and nothing will be done against combinations of capital by this de- mocratic administration. Everyone knows that the claws have been re- moved from the Sherman Act in re- gard to capital, and that consolida- tions are strictly the order of the day.
 Labor has just one means Of finding expression and that IS through united action and no other. To endeavor to prevent that united action is to endeavor to leave labor as prone and helpless as a corpse upon the autopsy table. And that is exactly what the democratic admi- nistration proposes to do with re- gard to this compulsory arbitration law
 It is extraordinary the number of workers who pin their faith to the democratic party as the party Of progress and enlightenment, when in point of fact it is on such thing. However the re- publican party is the party of special privilege, at least it has the right justly to claim that i: repre- sents the progress of sp2cial privi- lege and it's consolidation, increase in power, in privilege and domina- ton. It is in keeping with the logic of capitalist development and is scientific political reflex of the eco homie power which special privilege i, holding and trlcs to HO'l
 On the other hand tho d2norrstic party is essentially a 0atcj Of rcac tion. It is living upon principles of q past age It is representative of little business and independent ca Dital. It has still as it's cardinal doctrine that competition is the life of trade and it strives to realize that folly. It has no grasp of the indus trial conceptions of the present day whatever. Its policies are the poli- .eies of the tinker: a drop of solder here and a patch of tin there, and with the aid of some reubenistic hayWire the whole machinery is sup posed to move along as it moved along in the earlier days of the nineteenth century.
 The republican party has kept abreast of the times in the inter- est of Big Business and Top Capital ism. It has never lost itself in the platitudes of the progressive doc trainaire, but held firmly to the faith that to those that have shall and must be given in power pelf and pri- vilege. It has supported with materi- ;alistic lack of sentiment all institu- tions and conventions and policies which tended to strengthen capital ism, and without any efrort to culti- vate the opinions of the dear people Insisted that capitalistic develop ment was logically the affair of the capitalists and no other.
 The democratic party is essenti- ally a capitalist party. But it has to rely for it's support upon the outer rings which have been for the most part shorn of their power and their privilege, and which are con stantly feeling the crushing rivalry of the greater economic forces which want the places in the sun which ahe independents have managed somehow by hook or by crook to en- joy.
 Hence they must seek an alliance