Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1900 — COMMUNICATED. [ARTICLE]

COMMUNICATED.

Compulsory Army Service. Editor Democrat: Their is?no question but the administration people have their heads thoroughly bent upon revolutionizing •things generally ‘in the United States. We are to become a world Power. We are going forth, Like England and Germany, in quest of adventure, and in knightly arirtors our navy will seek to redressthe wrongs of all the world. The time was when we bad enough to do to attend to our own business, and we have found it exceedingly profitable to do so. But all that, we are told, is in the past; the United States has outgrotvn its infancy and must take up the white man’s burden along with the pelf-seeking European powers. We must have a finger in every pie that is opened, and with our sword must help to open many more, in China and elsewhere. Of course, this requires a vast navy, and we are going to have it, if it costs any amount of money. And now comes a proposition from Mr. Secretary Hay that we shall have a great standing army, and that in order to keep the ranks full of men, we must adopt the old world methods of compulsory service for every American citizen from eighteen to forty-five years bf age, after the laws and methods of France and Germany. The people are not going to volunteer with sufficient alacrity even to keep the ranks full in the Philippines, much less to carry on any qew service in foreign parts, for greed of gold. Perhaps the American people will have something to say about a standing army that will necessitate compuleojy service, for our citizens. But all the same, the politicians who are out for empire are figuring on this, and if their plans are carried out it will become necessary to resort to compulsory military service, so the British-American republican party can carry out its hellish designs and favor England and Germany in their schemes, that they may become the three powers on earth, and all the rest of the world empires will be controlled by those three nations. ' W. M. Lakin. Aurora, Neb. Warren & Irwin are making loans on farm or city property at a low rate of interest and commission and on more liberal terms than can be obtained elsewhere in Jasper County.