Weekly Nome industrial worker., 1919-02-15
By Dr. J. w. Curry. The Only Hope For New Era Lies With The Workers

The Only Hope For New Era LIeS
 With The Workers
 The maSter class is always horri- fled at he thought of any analysis of human society. Only ignorance holds back Social Democracy. By reason of financial and economic power one class is in control. Tn every historical epoch the class that owred the machinery of production directed human society. The people who attempt to enlighten their fellows are naturally classed as dangerous, but these people are not responsible for the disease any more than is the physician whose task it is to diagnose human physical ailments that they may know how to attempt a remedy. If those who so strenuously oppose this diagnosis" only really under stood they will learn that the Workers in emancipating themselves, will emancinpate the whole of society, and every member of the new Social Democracy will be glad of the change.
 There will, however, be no change without struggle, and the hope lays in education. In order to better suit their purposes, the master class has been compelled to teach the people to read, and education is the greatest of all forces making for Social Democ- racy. Realizing this, the opponents are out to pervert facts when they can not entirely suppress them. I remember as boy camping on the banks of stream from which we got our water, and how one morning we were mortified to discover that the stream was so muddy as to make it useless. On examination further up the stream we discovered that the neighbours hogs had been wallowing in it. This is figuratively what is hap pening today as hogs of various kinds are wallowing in the streams from which we get our news and knowledge and the great mass of it is polluted near it's source. It has been pleaded that the working class Is not fit to rule-did not have the necessary knowledge-but cricum- stances are rapidly developing the fitness required.
 In Social Democracy there will he no drones St Paul has laid down a 6i"t"r' that if there is any among them who Will not work. neither should he eat. Service is the qualifi- cation to enable a man to have the wherewithall to eat In Social De- mocracy service and not hereditary ownership of things will count.
 Count Okuma, a Japanese states man has declared that the past con- fiict was nothing less than the death of European civilization Just as in the past the civilization of Babylon. Egypt, Greece, Carthage and the grea, Roman Empire have been destroyed so in the judgment of this detached observer, the civilization of all Europe Is receiving its deathblow. (Quoting from the manifesto of the British Labor Party, the speaker said:) We of the Labor Party can so far agree in this estimate as to recognize in the present world catastrophe, if not the death, at any rate the elimination and collapse of distinctive indus trial civilization, which the workers will not seek to reconstruct"
 Whatever the period of transition holds for us all must be largely deter l mined by the attitude of those who are even now opposing the aims of an opinion that the most strenous fight would be on the American continent, as wherever the profiteers are the most strongly entrenched. and the workers are furthest away from the