Show LORD ROBERTS IS RIGHT Lord Roberts has introduced into the ho house of lords a conscription bill to draft the young men of England into the militar military service for a period lon long enough to train them in the handling handlin of weapons and the duties of soldiers That bill ought to pass even if England never has a war Avar because the young men of England esp especially in inthe inthe inthe the rural districts need the training The They are degenerating This was abundantly shown in the Boer war The They went to South Africa more like sheep than men men and the fact that General Kitchener could stand off the Boers and keep his long line to the coast open until he could tr train in these human heep sheep into real soldiers showed that he was a a soldier sure enough That experience is fresh in Lord Roberts' Roberts mind and ann he wants to provide provide pro pro- vide ide against a possible emergency when the enemy will not be a few half starved Boers but an overwhelming overwhelming over over- whelming host of trained soldiers |