Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1896 — Soldiers Have a Right to Vote. [ARTICLE]

Soldiers Have a Right to Vote.

In some of the European countries the line between the soldier and the citizen is very sharply drawn, the former not being.allowed nny of the rights or privileges of citizenship. In our own land of freedom a citizen is none the less so from the fact that he is serving his country inthe army. Any soldier, on complying with the registration laws and In other ways fulfilling legal requirements, has the same right to vote as though he were following the business by which he made his living before be enlisted. -> “Do you have a telephone in your house?” “Noj I sometimes have .to work at the office at night, and if f~liad a ’phone at home my wife would call me up every thirty minutes to see if I was there.”—Chicago Record. On board steamship Brace up. old boy. be thrown off If you, only think so. Simpson—D9 you —see —any one—throwing It pff— faster than—l am?—Detroit Free Press.