Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-27 | Page 14 | Wilson's Answer Clarifies Outlook, Labor Leader Says

WILSON'S ANSWER CLARIFIES OUTLOOK, LABOR LEADER SAYS LONDON, Oct. 26. Arthur Henderson, leader of the labor party in the house of commons, said today that his first impression im-pression of President Wilson's note to Germany was that it would assist very materially in clarifying the situation. It is of the highest importance that the German peopte should be encouraged to look, not for a temporary cessation of hostilities, but for a permanent discrediting discredit-ing and destruction of the military and arbitrary system that has involved them and nearly the whole world in unprecedented unprece-dented suffering and loss of life, he said. "If the German people are honestly seeking peace, they should do all in their power to provide such effective safeguards safe-guards and constitutional guarantees for the future world peace that no section of their population would be in a position, posi-tion, if so disposed, to influence a resumption re-sumption of military effort. As President Wilson has clearly shown, the best safeguard safe-guard against a future war is the reduction, re-duction, at least to virtual Impotency, of all the forces upon which rests the direct responsibility for the horrors of the present pres-ent struggle."