Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-01
No B0LSheUih There.

one OF the most significant and heartenlnS mes
sages that has come from the Allied countries in
many day is the declaration of the British Labor
party unreservedly indorsing President Wilson'S
and Prime Minister Lloyd Georges statement of
aims and affirming that if Germany will not
accept those terms, 1--WE must fight on" The Labor
party, representing compact membership OF some
two and a half million organized workingmen, is
now especially potent in the political affairs of the
United Kingdom. Never it more convinced"
a correspondent writes, that ere long it is going
to rule in England" Its attitude toward the war
is thus peculiarly impressive and is plainly that
of political conviction rather than of political
strategy.
1t means a vast deal to the worlds future hap
piness as we'll as to the immediate task of winning
the war for democracy that the workingmen OF
England are of one mind and heart with those or
America the supreme issue of the times. There
Bolshekiv business at their great Noting
ham conference. At one stage the procedure, it is
true. proposed, in the spirit of Lenine
and Trotzky, to censure the executive heads of the
United States and Great Britain as representatives
of captalstic government" But the suggestion
was buried under an avalanche of noes. The pre-
dominant spirit of the convention voiced by its
presiding officer and cheered well-nigh unanimous
y by the delegates when he declared that the peace
which the Allies must win and the only kind worth
having, will be biased the principles of rghte-
BUSINESS and Justice, a peace which VIII leave no
germs behind for future wars" Reinforcing this
stanch loyalty came the statement of the delegates
from the French Socialists President Wilson,,
said he, has declared on behalf of the common
people of the whole world the terms which the
mon people want"
When we reflect that England, along with
France, has been in the wars stress and sacrifice
for three and half years and is now in the grip
of its hardest winter, this whoehearted, resolute
reafirmation of faith and purpose is inspiring, in
deed. 1t is the more significant, too because it
comes just on the heel of the most ambitious peace
maneuver Germany has yet made. We of America
know something of the extent and craftiness of
German propaganda for inconcusive peace, but
it is doubtful that we have experienced anything
quite insidious the campaign to undermine the
morale of the British and French and Italian peo-
pies. The Hohenzollerns, aware of the strain upon
those countries hoped to accomplish there some
thing akin to the Russian breakdown-not rev.
olution outright fasco, but widespread dis
satisfaction and bind a craving for peace that
the people would be ready to sacrifice the dearest
principles and interests which drew them into the
war. But the mass of Britons together with their
loyal Allies in democracy, have stood unfinching
and undeceived. They know that the hardship and
suffering of the present hour intense and heavy
it is is better than the years of shameful ty
ranny which Prussian triumph would entail They
know that there can be no security of human
rights and, therefore, chance for human better
ment as long as the brutal menace of Prussianism
remains. The know that upon the removal of that
world-shadowing danger depend all their rights
and all their hopes. Thus it is that British Labor
stands at this crucial juncture of the shoulder
to shoulder with American Labor and declares,
1--WE must fight on"