The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-02-09
DEMOCRACY.

There once was man who knew what palladium was. He died without bequeathing the mist ery,a nd so we arc bereft of a po- sitivC knowledge on the subject. There is, however, a tradition that our constitution is the palladium of our liberties. Hence we should have rcverent regard for palladi- ums.
 How grateful we should be that we gre privileged to live in glorious democracy. E&cn man a sovereign! All are equals! No rulers! The ad- ministrators-serva of the peo- pie; no aristocracy
 In this great democracy each man is at work under the palla- dium. All are laborers There are variant degrees of labor. Some are better pleased with their job than others. But there are always and everywhere malcontCnts who are dissatisfied with the work assigned them. Some of these creatures complain because he who performs the most laborious services re- ccives the slenderest reward as though the delight in rendering service were in itself not auffici- cnt?
 Yes, it is true, that many of thC2o on whom is conferred the horor of p2rfo1 ming the hardest tasks dc hot appreciate tho dstinc- ticn thus laviShed upon them. So cicty could net exist without clas- ses. Our best people would be in pitiful plight if there were not 9 tired class from which to recruit its asylum, it's social settlement work, it's houses of prostitution, ard it's police force.
 Society requires a class that must build houses, plan and supply the furnishings for these edifices, make the roads, grow foodstuffs and fashion the clothing. It also needs a class that will use the stuff creat- ed. W3 necS people to live in the houses, make use of the roads, eat the stuff which is grown. and wear 1he clothes fashioned. Then we noed a-otlec class to keep the peace between them that make the things which they care not to use,
 
 but makes none. l once asked one of these working fellows why he wG!i.Gd 70 be on the police fierce. He replied that he might as well have an easy job as any other fel- low and he added, we must have a police force, just as well as we must have sunlight Life and pro- perty would not be safe otherwise" tUnder the Capitalist system).
 It would seem that the less one has the moro he requires protec- tion for what he has net, against the other fellow who al.o has mo- thing.
 V those that do net work with their hands Theirs is brain work. They are called employers of labor They work the workers and be- come forccful factors iii social life. What would become Of our poor ignorant working-classes who furnish employment for them? I remember he1riEg of all occurrence that illustrates how sadly our work folk would fare if they were no. given employment During the reconstruction days following the S Civil War an old darkey sauitered mo tho handsomely appo.::ted of ice of the Freedmens Bureau at Memphis.
 ~iIs dis yer de Freadmen's B3ouch?" he asked, in ope2- moutted admiration of the walnut and brass fittings of he handsome quarters.
 "This is the place." courteously answered the sole occupant, who appeared to be the officers in ,cEarges g,T1j~ x qn
 well, wot yer gwine GO fer 'e cullud mann" was his next in- quiry.
 "Wc cant do anything for you just now said the functionary. "The last appropriation for this office was only about enough to put up these fixings and pay our sala-