Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1917 — GERMANY MUST PAY THE PRICE [ARTICLE]

GERMANY MUST PAY THE PRICE

CONVENTION DECLARES WORLD MUST BE MADE SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY. London, Dec. 28.—Premier Lloyd George, in a letter which he sent today to the special national labor conference, declared: “Achievement of the purposes for which the allies are fighting is essential to the future freedom and peace of mankind.” The, asserted, that a statement on could be made only in agre with Great Britain’s allies, question of issuing a fresb. jEnSßaeclaration. he added, was bimjjfionstantly kept in view by the TWente allied government.- I The premier’slstatement also is regarded as the British reply to the German peace offer. The labor conference was convened here today by the parliamentary committee of the trades union congress and the executive of the labor party in the central hall at Westminster to consider a memorandum on war aims, a pronunciament was adopted with a virtually unanimous show of hands, declaring that in continuing the war labor is actuated by a determination to make the world safe for democracy hereafter. No sympathy was expressed in the text of the statement with attempts to convert to war into one of conquest, but it insisted that restitution and reparaion, and also certain territorial reajustments are necessary if the renewal of armaments and war is to be avoided. The conference was attended by 750 delegates, and was expected to place on record an expression of opinion from British labor on the war aims of this country. Its adoption of the memorandum is considered especially significant in view of the peace negotiations between Germany and Russia. The statement dealt with Alsace-Lorrain, Italy, the Balkans, Poland, Turkey and German African colonies on lines similar to those suggested in earlier documents on these subjects.