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Show tr ' i CONSCRIPTION v The English cabinet s dec s on to m insist upon conscr pt on for unmarried men indicates that the Earl of Der by s enlistment plan was a s ccess only in one respect The marr ed men enlisted in vast numbers because Erem er Asquith had pledged them that JthCy should be called into active erv ice only after the s ngle men except for a negligible few had been per .ej&aded or co? pelled to jo n the army When the cabinet met to analyze the figures they probably discovered that Lord Derby s recruiting campa gn had ot, resulted in the enlistment of any great number of single men Only a "Jj negligible fe v had enlisted It was then up to the cabinet to keep tfPrem er Asquith s pledge or repudiate 'With a full real zation of the hos JjEUiiy which woold be aroused among jail classes in Ireland and among the Ia'f)onng classes in Great Britain the Iinet decided for the conscription of larned men. ace to face w th a crisis such as not arisen since the outbreak of war the cabinet can only judge the,character and traditions of the Jisft people as to what will be the ea e,nces of conscription. While Englihh people have been, wedded he grmeIe of rebellion under cer extraordinary conditions they sel , have practiced rebellion Unlike French people or at all events r Freud people of the nineteenth oiy they do not rush to the bar des at every outburst of govern tal tyranny They have a certain and considerate patience which (res long even amid universal un and compla nt It is only at the . unation of a long series of oppre 9 and injustices that the defin tely are for revolution. Itr would be altogether at variance Sfh. English tradition to start a revo Bf ration during a foreign war This was j illustrated at the beginning of th s P 6 conflict when a revelation over the r Irish question seemed imminent Ger many counted more or less confidently upon that revolution and the rifles which were furnished the nationalist f volunteers a few weeks before the war fl p were made in Germany Before the I menace of war ranks closed as f bv ' magic and the English emp re stood , united In view of that h stor c ex j ample is it likely that there w 11 be tr a revolt now over the quest on of con ' scnption t t In spite of he censorsh p he Fng v hsh press has freely d scu ed conscr p tion n all ts phat.es The a tat on against conscription robablv has reached a climax before t s decided upon S gns I o nt to a passionate protest n the next few davs and then if arliament passes a conscription b 11 the or pos tion s apt to disappear O own history however shows that a e le who der ve their mst t t ons rom England do not submit tan el to c forced military service The aft riots in New ork were ser o t not threatening to the stab It of th north and later events pro el th.it' those who were drafted made hero c I soldiers The Engl sh people are so eager to win the war so averse to all talk of peace at th i time that e en cons r tion is hkelv to bo borne pat entlj The enemy s rampant with torv and is suggesting terms of peace wfa h the English view as insolent almost maddening and the will hesitate to cause any internal discord wh ch w 11 endanger their chan es of It mate tr umph |