New-York tribune., 1918-01-12

abroad. They have answered their na.;o,,.
call in the hours Of distress, have sacrisc.d
life and limb, rights and customs, doroes,;.
happiness and personal comfort-ev everyth,nn
indeed, which touches mans life most ;,,f
mately and which he prizes most DEAF.
They have fulfilled their obligation to IL.
State to the full, and all they ask s that n.
State shall fulfil her obligations to her c;.
zens. Individual freedom, happiness .ss
contentment mean national strength wealtL
and power. international freedom, coopers.
ton and goodwill mean world peace and tran.
quillity
A Socialist Formula
"The national policy Of the reconstitu.sd
Labor party is sufficiently clearly indicated
in the statement that it aims at securing for
all producers. whether by hand or brain, IN.
fall fruits of their industry, and the rno.,
equitable distribution thereof that NAV b.
possible upon the basis of the common own.
ership of the means Of production and tho
best obtainable system of popular admins
tration and control of each industry or sar
vice. This is a Socialist formula But II.
practical explicaton will b. no means lead
to the state socialism of the earlier propa-
gandsts Industrial democracy rather than
the State organization Of industry is the
ultimate aim we have in view. On all tho
specific social and industrial problems ~
the postwar period, ranging from the grad
ual rehabilitation Of the fighting forces and
the restoration of trade union conditions to
the reform of education, the national organ.
ization Of agriculture, and juster method
Of taxation. the Labor party's programme il
constructive. 1t insists that the nation can
! take no step back from the policy of con-
trolling the great industries and services in
troduced during the war; it urges the people
to realize that the capitalistic system Of pro.
duction for profit has been finally dscredited
and superseded.
"1nternationalism is q cardinal doctrine Of
the labor movement, and the party under
the new conditions will carry the doctrine
much farther than it has been hitherto
taken. Our international programme. like
the national reforms upon which we insist.
grows out of the war situation. The partv
stands for q peoples peace founded upon
the principle of nationality and the right Of
all nations, small and great, to choose for
themselves the form of government under
which they will live. We support the pro.
rosal to establish a League of Nations
pledged to maintain peace in the future; We
denounce and repudate the idea of an eco
nomic war after peace is declared which
will revive the old antagonisms and divide
the nations once more into opposing camps
leading US back to the old regime Of secret
diplomacy, militarism and competitive ar
maments, and thus make inevitable still
more dreadful wars. Believing that the
British Empire, notwith standing its manifest
defects and deficiencies, is a great civilizing
engine in its relations to the backward races
and fertile field for experiment in applying
the principle of self-government, the Labor
party does not suffer its nternationalism to
negate its ideal Of interdominion cooper.
ton, but it seeks to hasten the day when
the empire will become an alliance of free
peoples under democratic governments And
as first step to that ideal the party by its
policy in Parliament and its propaga nda in
the country, sets out to make this country a
democratic state