The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-21
MILITARY VICTORY
NOT FINAL Alk'*"
IS
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Political Offensive Agaj
House of Hohenzoll
Important Aim Of
Allies.
HENDERsoN's OPINION
HENDERsoN's OPINION
Former Member Of British Cabinet
Sees Need of Working for the
DemocratizInq Of Ger
man Empire.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
T, LNote-In the following remarkable
interview setting forth British labor
war aims. Arthur Henderson, former
labor member of the Lloyd-George
cabinet and spokesman for British
trades unionism, emphasized q point
generally overlooked in this country.
He reveals the Importance attaching
in Europe to the secondary offensive
the political Observation-Disclosures by
President Wilson against Hohenzoi-
lernism in his war declaration speech.
Dispatches from France during the
tent with which the campaign for the
characterization of Germany Is being
pushed from that angle and through
Switzerland
| EBy Lowell Mellett. United Press
| Staff Correspondent
f.! LONDON, Nov. 21.-The allies
should not abandon their political Of.
ifensive against Germany, according
to Arthur Henderson, because In many
respects the most dangerous offensive
| the house OF IIohenzollern has to
| face.
| Henderson, as leader OF the labor
party, has aligned with him some four
and half million voters through the
new coalition of his party and the
cooperative movement.
Look at this item in the paper" "
said the labor leader.
The item reported the address OF
the crown prince to the latest baton
OF German boys brought to ths- west
ern front to join their fathers and
brothers.
There are powers at work attempt
ing to sow discord between the Ger
man people and their sovereign, know
ing Germany otherwise is invincible, .
said the crown prince. ut is your
work also to prevent this" And
more of the same.
"Of course Germany is not other
wise invincible,'" said Henderson.
"The crown prince pretends not to
fear the allies military efforts, but
he shows great concern regarding
their ability to make a wide breach
by other means between the kaiser
and his people. The real position is
that the German kaiser and his high
command realize that their military
plans have failed They are now at
pains to prevent their military failure
leading to a political upheaval at
home.
Military victory is not the final
aim of the allies. 1t Is a means to
an end 1t is sought in order to en-
able them to achieve the sort of
peace which they conceive to be es-
sential to prevent any future recur
renee of the present awful struggle
and to secure the end of the war for
ali time; a peace which will recog-
nize the rights of peoples to dispose
of themselves as they think best,
and will make the world safe for DEM
ocracy, a peace which will solve all
old grievances without creating new
ones and which will secure just recon-
pense for the innocent victims of, the
foul wrongs perpetrated by German
militarism during the war.
"Those are broadly the aims of th5
allies and it seems to me that to
political weapon in order more quick
Iy to achieve such an honorable and a
lasting peace, would not weaken the
allies position, but would strengthen
it.
eve are at war with the kaiser and
kaiserism and personally I do not
want to see any peace made with
katserism If the peace settlement
is to have any prospect Of durability
it must be made with the German peo-
ple and not with the kaiser.
president Wilson, who has pro-
found knowledge Of real politics and
whose utterances come nearer to the
ideals of democracy than those Of
any other allied statesman, has seen
the possibilities Of the use of the
political weapon in this war, and he
has courageously defined the i'm
portant difference between the Ger
man people and Its autocratic rulers.
In this differentiation l fully concur
with President Wilson and ! strongly
advocate political offensive in or
der to widen the breach between
kaiserism and the German people.
"By political offensive l do not
mean that Great Britain should re-
sort to the use Of unscrupulous diplo-
matte practices as Germany has done.
The British people would not tolerate
them. But do say that they should