Show TBATiTPS AND THE WAR I has been suggested that the war presents a good opportunity to utilize the tramps of the country I is not by any means I may be that many of the tramps of the country have volunteered vol-unteered but it is hardly likely for of all things next to soap and water that a tramp hates is regularity and discipline disci-pline and regularity and discipline are of the very essence of a soldiers life TrampS like a roving heedless aimless life one in which there Is no restraint and all Is chance Fancy any tramp voluntarily taking up with any occupation occu-pation where he would have to get up early in the morning and make his tent clean and tidy in which he would have to keep everything in applepie order But the present war does not afford an opportunity for solving the tramp question the soldiers for it are l volunteers vol-unteers and they walk up of their own free will to serve their country I there were a draft then the tramp would be in clover for men would be wanting to hire substitutes then the tramp would have his opportunity Ho could hire out as a substitute and after t af-ter he had been with his regiment awhile a-while lie could desert and become a regular bounty jumper The tramp problem would not be solved hut tho I J tramp would have his opportunity I The present war offers no solution for I the tramp problem Take the volunteers volun-teers from Utah for instance They I are men whose every thought and habit I are the very opposite of the thought J and habit of the tramp They como 1 from the best families In the state leaving leav-ing comfortable homes and steady employment f i em-ployment to respond to the call of their country No doubt many are posessed of the spirit of adventure so Inherent in all Americans but they volunteer from I the highest motives of patriotism and I are actuated by the sincerest love of I country and the rights of mankind l I this is unknown to the tramp |