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Show subject. Now that the points in dispute dis-pute have been settled we welcome the combiDg out of one class of slaukers. FIGHT OR MOVE ON. British subjects' of draft age who are now in the United States and safe from all harm will be conscripted after the 28th of September if they do not enlist in the meantime under the terms of recruiting re-cruiting treaties to be ratified in London Lon-don tomorrow. Some time ago it was said there were several thousand of buch slackers scattered throughout the country coun-try and British officers made a strenuous strenu-ous effort to induce them to enlist, but comparatively few embraced tho opportunity oppor-tunity to show that they were brave and worthy sons of Great Britain. So it became necessary to round them up by due process of law and the good work will begin just as soon as the treaty ratifications are ' exchanged. Some of these felllows will doubtless wend their way to Mexico or South America, where they will continue to be immune from military service, but they will carry the brand of cowardice for life and no English-speaking country will care to own them as citizens after the young men who are not cowards come marching back from the front writh drums beating and' flags flying. We do not believe there are many American citizens of draft age in Canada or Great Britain, but such Americans as have sought refuge under the British flag to avoid taking up arms for "Chicle Sam have doubtless been spotted by the local authorities where they have taken temporary refuge and will be compelled to do their duty by their country or spend some years in prison. The draft age limits are to be extended up and down as soon as congress meets, if the present program is carried out, in order to obtain the necessary number of soldiers to win the war in the shortest possible time, but before the boys of 19. and 20 and men more than 31 years of age are sent to the training camps every slacker within reach should be inducted into the service serv-ice or dealt with according to law. We have been entirely too lenient in this country and we are too prone to make excuses for those who have shown the white feather during the past year. It is probable Utah will be compelled to furnish several thousand men for service serv-ice in the army before this time next year and it is up to the citizens of this great state to see to it that no young men who should go to war are allowed to remain at home. Under the treaties about to be signed the government will bo able to laj hands upon some of those who have fled and upon many others who have taken up their residence in the United States to avoid fighting under un-der the British flag. The treaties should have been negotiated as sonn as congress declared war to exist, but there seems to have been some difficulty difficul-ty in reaching an agreement upon the |