The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-05
HELP DEMOCRACY
IN GERMANY SAYS
ENGLISH LEADER
Arthur Henderson Appeals to
Labor for Decisive Move.
Opening of Campaign for Next
General Election.
STOP THE HORRORS OF WAR
STOP THE HORRORS OF WAR
Process of Victory by Exhaus-
ton Is a Fatal One.
Combined Forces of Labor and
Socialism Are Needed Now.

London, March 5-The campaign
for the next general election already
has heguI. Arthur Henderson, former
member of the war council. finding
that the secretaryship of the Labor
party compeIs him to spend most of
his time in London, has decided to
resign his seat in the house of com
mons from the Barnard castle division
of Durham and has been invited to
contest the southern division of East
ham.
MIR. Henderson addressed a meeting
last night in Eastman, making a
strong appeal for the abolition of
secret diplomacy, for peace by con-
eiliat;on and a league of nations. He
said that before the war began the
people had entrusted foreign affairs
to statesmen and diplomats and were
paying dearly for their neglect. 1t
had to be recognized that no greater
disaste- had occurred during the war
than the fatal omission to do the
utmost to keep Premier Kerensky and
ms government in power il Russia
The people must be on their guard
against a repetition. of. the some fatal
pelicy over a wider field.
ut is highly improbable, Mr.. Hen
derson declared that the war can be
friumph. 1t may end by a process of
e$naustion and that meant a continu-
AAce of the war with all it's horrors
Until the destruction of human life
and material OF one or boths sets of
belIigerents make continuation i'm
possible Such a termination would
be a disaster of the frs magnitude to
ma 1l<ind.
zThere remains, he said, third
afternatlve-a policy of reconciliation.
hhru the combined forces of labor and
Socialism to obtain a real peoples
peace. That did not mean a surren-
Ser to the enemy or a patched-up
peace or peace at any price. nor that
the people are willing to condone Ger
man brutality to leave Germany
With all her power for mischief unin-
haired-
What the policy of concilia ton
meant was the destruction of mill
tarism not only in Germany but
kxerywhere. Mr. Henderson then re-
NitHed the well-known war aims of the
labor party, including league of ma
tlons. He said that such a league i'm
Hiied the complete characterization of
me ministry of government in all
Enuntries, the suppression of the greed
8f diplomacy and the publication of
xfeaties which must never contravene
the stipulation of league of nations. 1t
meant the concerted abolition of COM
mics to be prepared for by a common
limitation of ornaments and also that
fhey must abandon every suggestion
81 an economic boycott or of the fl
1ancial or commercial isolation of
Eermany
Help Democracy in Germany.
= The speaker quoted a recent speech
ef Phillip Scheidmann, the German
Socialist leader, and articles in the
socialist Vorwaerts proving that there
was a struggle in the central powers
Between the military caste and the
Torees of democracy. The people
must help tn. forces of democracy in
Germany to the utmost.
s. The German policy towards Russia
made the possibility of peace by con-
niliation much more remote. The
PEOPLE must convince the Germa n
people that victory for such ruth
less militarism would fasten perman-
Entity upon democratic nations the aw-
ful burden of armament and enforced
service and that the greater the Ger
man success on the battlefield the
more remote was world peace.
Eve must tell the German social
lists" Mr.. Henderson continued, that
we have done our part. Whether the
Struggle is to terminate soon or is to
be indefinitely prolonged. depends
largely upon how soon they can pro-
duce a change of mentality in their
government. When they induce their
=overnment to accept the broad hu-
man principles which inspire the pro-
posals of allied labor and socialism
then a world peace is insured Then
only will the peoples of the world
agree to sheath the sword and walk
together in the paths of progress and
1seace."