The declaration of the majority of the group, read by their secretary, Hubert Flouger, in the chamber, was as follows: "The Socialists vote the appropriations asked for by the government in order that France, brutally attacked and menaced to its very heart, may overcome the force, the central empires have launched against her and her allies, because it is ready for all sacrifices to insure the territorial integrity of France, and in order that Alsace Lorraine may obtain the reparation of rights trodden upon in 1871, to assure the entire political and economic restoration of Belgium and Serbia, and to acquire the certainty of a durable peace." The declaration goes on to say that its decision to vote those propositions. 