The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-24
THE AVERAGE PERSON.

that he will not move until the house falls on him. But the aver age person is never counted, except on election day; and then he is numbered with the "safe and sane"
 If the average person counted fer anything there would be very little progress made in the world. He will shift about and complain when hard pressed, as he has done in the recent election; but he will never do anything new. He lacks the power to do what he has not done before, CT seen his grandfather do. The way his ancestors did is good e1uf for him.
 Left to himself the average per- son would crystalline into a fixed habit, and finally decay. Races of mon have done so in the past.
 Ancient Egypt went down before the ravages of the average person. The Egyptians regarded the dead body as a most holy thing. To touch it was to become defller of tho sacred sanctium of the soul, and death was the penalty. Science could not see the inside of human body. It might dissect some of the lower animals, but the one it most needed to examine was taboocd.
 That human heap of pestilence, killed by disease, must be preserv- cd intact with embalming fluids, for the spirit of crumpty crum needed it in his business beyond the sacred lake.
 There was the stopping place of science. The average chump was all powerful and put up that breast work of superstition beyond which the wise men dare not go.
 In art, literature. mechanics, the same palsy hand was visible. Every avenue of progress was barricaded. No person dared, under penalty of death, to deviate from the fixed forms laid down by the average mummy. The nation crystallized and crumbled away, and is now the historical horrible example of the reign of the average person.
 But in modern tines repeti- tion of Egypt is quite impossible. Today there are two forces at work on him. One, the capitalist minor ity, attacks his stomach. The other the intelligent slave minority, bonn bard his brain. Between the two he has no rest, and abandons his ancestral worship bit by bit.
 The capitalists are taking every thing in sight, having him pinched with hunger, or the fear Of it, tho working hard. While in such a state he becomes more or less ready 10 listen to reason on the the system of property his fathers handed down to him.
 in thls broad America with an area So vast that were it equally divided each family would have one hundred and sixty acres, the aver age man is a renter paying, tribute for what is rightfully his.
 It is a sad commentary on the average intelligence, but it is none the less true, that the average man never thinks about freedom until he is so hopelessly enslaVed that nothing short of savage outburst of passion will release hm. There is hope for the average American. He thinks he is free. He imagines that in country where the people elect the government the governors are the servants of the people. When he opens his mind to facts and casts off the fairy tale about the freedom conquered by his fore fathers; when he looks around him and sees things as they are he gets wants to go right out and end it at once.
 No man is ever half so angry as the proud man who discovers him self fool The awakened Amer ican is that man. He is danger ous man to daily with. He is not easily pacifed He will not bow his head to the yoke and go on in sill ent submission He gets out and does things. In him is the hope