New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-15
LA FOLLETTE's PEACE REsoLU-
TON.

lion.
The text of Senator La Follette's con-
current resolution is, in full, as follows:
Whereas the provisional government
Of Russia did on the 10Th day of May
1917 declare in favor of "peace without
annexation or indemnities on the basis
of the rights of nations to decide their
own destiny" and
Whereas the Imperial Reichstag repre-
senting the great majority of the German
people, did ON the 18th day Of July 1917,
by vote Of PA to 116 pass resolutions
in favor of peace, without forced
acquisition of territory and without
political, economic and financial vio-
lations" and declaring for "a mutual
understanding and lasting reconciliation
among the nations and the creation Of
international juridicaI organizatiors;''
and
Whereas the German Chancellor speak
ing for the Imperial German Government
on the 18th day Of May 1917, made the
following official declarations in the
Reichstag:
I'VE did not 60 to war, and we are not
fighting now against the whole world,
in order to make conquests, but only to
secure our existence, and firmly to-:
establish the future Of the nation" and
Whereas Oh behalf of Great Britain
on the 23rd day of May 1917 Lord
Robert Cecil as one of the ministers Of
the present government replying in the
House of Commons, declared that
"Our aims and aspirations are dictated
solely by our determination to secure
peace founded on national liberty and
international amity, and that all inn
perialistic aims based on force and con-
quest are completely absent from our
program and
Whereas duly organized bodies of
loyal citizens of Great Britain, repre-
senting millions of other citizens, many
of whom are eminent in official life and
exert a wide influence upon public
opinion, have declared that:
"A stage in the war has been reached
when the democracies of all the belligerent
countries are beginning to work towards
a peace based on the same general
principles" and
Whereas the above principles are those
by which the respective warning govern
ments of Europe profess common willing
ness to be bound and are principles to
which the United States subscribes; and
Whereas one and all of these declara-
lions bespeak willingness to adopt the
doctrine of "a peace without victory,
proclaimed by President Wilson on the
22nd day of January 1917 as the only
possible peace that can be enduring; and
Whereas there has recently emanated
from official and unofficial sources, both
| in this country and abroad, statements
indicating that we are to continue in the
war until a peace is obtained which gives
to the Entente Allies, or some Of them
punitive damages and territorial adj
vantages as result of the war; and
Whereas the people of this country do
not know the terms of the secret treaties
or agreements existing among the En-
tente Allies defining the advantages, if
any, either in the way Of indemnities or
territorial acquisitions or commercial
privileges, which each is expected to
I receive as a result of the war; land
Whereas there is naturally a widely
expressed demand coming from the
people of our own country for. some
declaration of the purpose and object
:! for which the United States is expanding
). in the first year Of the war from thirteen
2 to seventeen billions of money, and
! raising by draft and otherwise an army
of two million men ostensibly for service
!, in foreign countries; and
4 Whereas the people have a right tt
J, know with certainty for what end theil
: blood is to be shed and their treasur.
expended; and
Whereas in this free government
< Congress, in whom the war making
4 power resides under the Constitution
g is charged primarily with the respon
9 sibility of deciding upon the objects .
Y the war at its commencement or at an.
e time during its existence;
Now, therefore, be, it resolved, by til