The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-21
BY LOWELL NTELLETT.

| London, Nov. 21.-The allies should
not abandon their political offensive
against Germany, according to Arthur
/ Henderson, because in many respects
the most dangerous offensive the
house of Hohenzollern has to face.
! Henderson, as leader of the labor
| party, has aligned with him some four
and a half million voters thru the new
| coalition of his party and the cooper
atiVe movement.
| Look at this item in the paper"
said the labor leader.
Crown Prince Scents Danger.
The item reported the address of
the crown prince to the latest batch
! of German boys brought to the west
ern front to join their fathers and
| brothers.
There are powers at work attempt
man people and their sovereign,
knowing Germany otherwise is irwin
cible,' said the crown prince. ''It is
| your work 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 a great concern regarding their
ability to make d wide breach by other
means between the kaiser and his
people.
THE real position is that the Ger
man kaiser and his high command
realize that their military plans have
falled: They are now at pains to pre-
vent their military failure leading to
political upheaval at home.
Peace Must Be Permanent.
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 essential to
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present awful struggle and to secure
the end of the war for all time; a
peace which will recognize the rights
OF peoples to dispose of themselves as
tney thlnk best, and will make the
world safe for democracy, a peace
which will solve all old grievances
without creating new ones and which
1 viii secure just recompense for the
innocent victims of the foul wrongs
/ perpetrated by German miIitaris1n
/ during the war
i These are broadly the aims of the
allies and it seems to me that to sun
plement military effort, by the politi-
| cal weapon in order more quickly to
| achieve such an honorable and a last
| ing peace would not weaken the al
/ lies position, but would strengthen if.
we are at war with the kaiser and
| ka1serism and personally 1 do not
want to see any peace made with kai-
SerIsm. If the peace settlement is to
have any prospect of durability, it
must be made with the German peo-
| pie and not with the kaiser.
| Wilson Hit Nail on Head.
! President Wilson, who had a pro-
i 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 Dolitica
weapon in this war and he has cour-
! ageously defined the important diff
| ference between the German people
and its autocratic rulers In this diff
ferentiation I fully concur with Presi-
a political offensive in order to widen
the breach between kaiserism and the
German people.
! By a political offensive 1 do not
mean that Great Britain should resort
| to INSCRIPTIONS diplomatic practices
as the Germans have done, the British
people would not tolerate them, but I
+ do say that they should make a wise
and d1scriminative use of Legitimate te
political methods, which are open and
above board and which mean elm
l ination of secret diplomacy"
AT present. he continued. the al
lies are negotiating with the kaiser's $
servants. All the speeches made by
the German chancellor and replied to
by allied statesmen constitute the en-
ployment of open political mearis-to
| bring about a settlement of the war.
It is a game of skilled diplomacy. but
one of the chief faults is that the al
lies are playing it with a minister
who is solely responsible to the kaiser.
Don't Deal With Chancellor.
To my mind. the most satisfactory
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