Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1917 — Free Peoples Bound To Win, Balfour Says. [ARTICLE]

Free Peoples Bound To Win, Balfour Says.

Washington, May B.—Foreign Sec•retary Balfour declared in an epochal address in the senate chamber today that the war conference here had cemented an alliance of three great dmocnacies destined to crush the greatest world menace of all time, and to save civilization and liberty. Though severe trials still must be faced, he said, free .peoples now have been aroused and fired with determination insuring the ultimate triumph of free institutions. “This war is to be settled by hard fighting,” said the British statesman, “and when it comes to hard fighting neither America nor Britain nor France need fear measuring themselves at any moment against those who have risen up against all that we hold dear for the future. , “It requires every man and woman on this side of the Atlantic, as on the other side, to throw their efforts into the scale of right, but that effort unquestionably will be made. I speak with confidence about the issue of this great struggle—a confidence which is redoubled since you have thrown in your lot.” The submarine campaign presents a grave situation just now. Mr. Balfour said, “'but more than one difficulty of like magnitude has been overcome.” The war could not be won, he predicted, by killing helpless women and children or by unwarranted attacks upon neutrals.