THE ENEMY WITHOUT.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15488, 15 January 1916, Page 10

THE ENEMY WITHOUT.

(raw oca own correspondent.) LONDON, December 7. Lieutenant-Colonel John Ward, M.P. (tfce Labour leader), speaking at a conference' of delegates, said: (the Labour leader), at a conference of delegates: — ■ . ' "Civilisation in Europe as wo have known it is seriously jeopardised. Tho amendment wliich nad been proposed (urging that the rich. should bo taxed in proportion to the burdens of tho poof), if it is carried and published in Germany, will be worth at least a dozen, divisions to the German Army. It will'help the Kaiser and his Junkers to. go on in the hope that divisions in Great Britain will weakenus. It means at* J east -50,000 British lives. (Cries of ".Nonsense.") British trade unionists, should .first of all combine their energies in order to defeat the enemy without. Then the country is, our.own. (Cries of "Is,it?")' If notj it is our own fault! , "Whatever wrongs; are imposed upon the majority of our •own -people, they * are not' imposed by an alien from outside, and tho. moment the. democracy of the country is convinced. of tho necessity of reform, they can get that reform so long as we maintain dur "position'among the nations of the wdrld. ■By passing.tho amendment w.e should not, be.serving.the armies in the field, and would Hot even be representing the people who have sent us to tho conference, and who are determined first to defeat, tbo'cncmy. without and then deal withtheepemy at home."