Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-05
LONDON LEADER
DISCUSSES WAR
LABOR POLICY
Appeals For Abolition of Sc
cret Diplomacy; Asks
League of Nations
HENDERSON QUITS SEAT
May Contest For Place in
Southern Division, Near
London
HENDERSON QUITS SEAT

London, March 5,-The campaign
for the next general election already
has begun. Arthur Henderson, for
mer member of the War Council,
finding that the secretaryship of
the Labor Party compels him to
spend most of his time IN London,
has decided to resign his seat in the
House Of Commons from the Barn
ard Castle division of Durham and
has been invited to contest the
southern division of Eastman.
Urge League of Nations
Mr.. Henderson addressed meet
ing last night in Eastman. making
a strong appeal for the abolition OF
secret diplomacy, for peace by con-
ciliation and for a league of nations.
He said that before the war began
the people had entrusted foreign
affairs to statesmen and diplomatists
and were paying dearly for their
neglect. 1t had to be recognized
that no greater disaster had oc-
Cured in tho course of the war
than the fatal omission to do the
utmost to keep Premier Kerensky
and his government in power in
Russia. The people must be on
their guard against a repetition of
the same fatal policy over wider
field.
PIIssian Triumph Unlikely
1t is highly improbable, Mr.. Hen
derson declared, that the war can
be ended by a decisive Prussian mil
itary triumph. 1t might end by a
process of exhaustion, and that
meant a continuance of the war,
with all its horrors, until the de-
struction of human life and mate
rial of one or both sets of bellig-
erents made continuation impossi-
would
a disaster of the first magnitude to
mankind.
There remains, he said, n third
alternative policy of conciliation
through the combined forces of
labor and Socialism to secure a real
peoples peace. That did not mean
a surrender to the enemy, or a
patched-up peace, or peace at any
price, nor that the people are will
ing to concede German brutality or
to leave Germany with all her
power for mischief unimpaired.
What the policy of conciliation
meant was the destruction of mill
tarism not only in Germany but
everywhere.
Rccites Labor Aims
Mr.. Henderson then recited the
well-known aims of the Labor
party, including league of ma
implied the complete democratiza-
tion of the machinery of govern
ment in all countries the sup
preston of the greed of diplomacy
and the publication of treaties,
which must never contravene the
stipulations of the league of ma
tions. 1t meant the concerted aboli-
tion of compulsory military service
in all countries to be prepared for
by a common limitation of arma-
ments and also that they must aban-
don every suggestion of an economic
boycott or of the financial or COM
mercial isolation of Germany.
The German policy towards Rus
sia made the possibility of peace by
Cancellation much more remote.
The people must convince the Ger
man people that victory for such
ruthless militarism would fasten
permanently upon democratic ma
tions the awful burden of arma-
ments and enforced service, and
that the greater the German sue
cess on the battlefield the more re-
mote was world peace.