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Show DOING AWAY WITH CONSCRIPTION. I Perhaps no one legislative act of the Reichstag will have a great- j er effect on German Life than the measure declaring an end to uni- ersal compulsory military service. Hereafter the German army j may be recruited only by voluntary enlistment This abolishing oi conscription was in compliance with the demand of the- Sp.i . nnfer- Bverj German in the United States, who left Germany after j reaching military age, has felt the influence of conscription Every 1 young man was forced to accept three years or more of intensive training for war, and as a consequence. Germany was saturated I with the spirit of war. There was not a man in Germany, except a ; weakling who bad not learned military tactics and who had not been J inspired to welcome the day when Germany would become the guid- j ing hand of the world. The glory of war constantly was preached and driven home by practical demonstration. From now on, unless there be evasion and subterfuge, the Ger-man Ger-man will devote his early manhood to better purpos than drilling for conquest, and in two or three generations he may get out of his system the vanity of military parade and achievement. Some folks have had trouble in liquidating estates, but not the Cleveland boy whose uncle left him 60 barrels of XXX. His trouble will be to solidify his fortune under existing statutes of alcoholic Limitations. |