Weekly Nome industrial worker., 1919-01-25

aboye the aFistoefatfc horizon, the most portentogs Of which, from the point of view of the mobility, is labor unrest due to false hopes of a new heaven and a new earth.'' The old hell and the old earth never seriously distressed the aristocracy, but the prospect of change is dreaded.
 Nevertheless the change is coming, and men like President Wilson and Lloyd George welcome it. As to what is coming, MT Wilson last March ex- presser himself in a particularly sig nifcant manner in letter to the chairman of the New Jersey Demo- cratic convention. What he said is worth reprinting and keeping in mind. Read:
 Every sign of these terrible days of war and revolutionary change, when economic and social forces are being released upon the whole world whose effect no political seer dare venture to conjure, bids us search our hearts, through and through and make them ready for the birth of a new days-a day, we hope and be- lieve, of geater opportunity and greater prosperity for the average mass of struggling men and women, and of greater safety and occupation for children.
 'The old party slogans have lost their significance and will mean noth- ing to the voters of the future, for the war is certain to change the mind of Europe as we'll as the mind of Airerica. Men everywhere are search l ing democratic principles to their hearts inorler to determine their l soundness, their sincerity, their adaptability to the real needs of their l life, and every man with any vision must see that the real test of justice and right action is presently to come as it never came before.
 ''The men in the trenches who have been freed from the economic serf- dom to which some of them have been accustomed will, it is likely, return to their homes with a new view and a new impatience of all mere political phrases, and will demand real think | ing and sincere action.
 "The days of political and econom- ic reconstruction which are ahead of us no man can now definitely assess, but we know this, that every program must be shot through and through with utter disinterestedness; that no party must try to serve itself. but every party must try to save human ity, and that the task is very prac- tical one, meanig that every program, every measure in every program, must be tested by this question and this question alone: Is it just; is it for the benefit of the average man without influence or privilege; does is embody in real fact the highest conception of social justice and right dealing without respect of person or class or particular interest,""
 Let these words stand against the pessimistic forebodings of Sir Alfred Booth In aa world in which some men have too much while others have had too little it is impossible that con- ditions should be made more nearly just without impairing some of the privileges of those who in the past have fared too we'll.
 President Wilson, in the last para grapt quoted. raised standard of political morality which the people would do well to keep in mind. In sentiment it is as lofty as the Gettys- burg address. If vigorously applied it would revolutionize the United States. Every public official who in these momentous days should seek to serve the interest of a privileged I class should have laid upon him the lash of public scorn.
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