The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-11

OF the wOrkmen or America as wen
as of England are bound up in beating
the German army; 1t can not be done
except by willing cooperation OF men
in the workshops with the men in the
held"
Expressing his most emphatic ap-
prevail of President Wilson's outline OF
war aims, the Right Hon. G. N. Barnes,
NJ. p, member of the British war cabi-
net, sent this word to the American
workingman today through the United
Press.
"This year will be the testing time
for the fighters for freedom" Barnes
declared. "Germany's U boats will
make their last great effort before
America gets in. Germany's armies
may attack the French, the British,
or the Italians in great force within
the next three or four months.
EFFECTIVE American help must then
be in the field. I hope every one in
the working ranks in the United
States will see that so far as lies in
their power, they will contribute to
that help being there in time.
~ speak as one who has been in
the labor socialist movement on this
side of,the water for thirty years. My
sympathies are all with the working
folk I am one Of them in sympathy
with their claims for the fuller life,
but I know that everything just now
must be subordinateG to winning the
war.
al hope President Wilson'S speech
will stimulate the men in the work
shops to do their part by working, dur
ing the next few months with all
their mind and all their strength so
that militarism may be dethroned. 1t
cannot be done except by willing CO.
operation of the men in the workshops
with the men in the field--and this al
though the latter will have after all
to carry the heaviest part OF the bur-
den.
1.-THE value Of the presidents speech
lies in the fact that it reaffirms the
common aims of the democratic peo-
pie of the United States with their al
lies on this side Of the water. making
common cause with Premier Lloyd
Georges statement.
Regarding Russia, it expresses on
the whole the mind not only of Ameri-
ca but of Britain. The people of this
country have nothing but the most
kindly feeling for the Russian people.
1t is our wish as we'll as President
Wilson's, that order will come out Of
existing chaos as speedily as possible
so that the Russian people may enjoy
orderly democratic rule.
ut is our wish, as well as his, that
the western provinces of Russia
should not become the appanage Of
Prussian militarism.
q, ysch hot
in the future democracy should be
every people will know to what they
are being committed.
sit is our wish, as well as his, that
in the future live under
terms enabling an exchange of goods
to mutual advantage and that COM
pulsory military service be no longer
4 blight on civilization.
"In short, it is our wish. as well as
ais, that nations great and small, live
heir own way and develop according
10 their own bent.
"In the concrete application of those
to the moments problems
We also agree that French territory
should be restored and compensated
or and that other small countries
which have been ravaged by militar-
SIN should be restored to full terri
.orial, economic and political exist
snce
1--WE are in this war together-the
rec peoples of the west and the free
peoples of Europe. We on this side
ire carrying a great burden and we
want help speedily and effectively.
my message to the industrial work
rs Of the United States would be
hat they should carry on the build !
ng of ships and the equipping of
lrmies by which those armies may
70 made effective in Europe"