Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-10-29

The Reported Draft n FIetIOn-Tbe
Real Plan by which Our Armies are
to be Kept Full.
From the n Y. Herald1
1t has been widely reported that there
is to be another draft immediately after
the election. This story is false. Il was
invented, of course, for electioneering pur-
poses by the party which Just now makes
II Its principal business to let the people
know great deal about the horrors of war
and the beauties of peace. This party has
spread the fiction industriously, in the
hope to frighten a man here and there,
and thus to influence q vote against Mr..
Lincoln, who is understood to be the father
of all the drafts-though, we believe, there
is no doubt that the man who first urged
the enforcement Of the draft was General
NJ Clellan.
There is not to be another draft, either
before the election or after it I; hut of course
the government will soon want more men,
and we are therefore glad to learn that
measures are finally to be taken to estab-
lish sensible, permanent recruiting sys-
tenn. Men are not scaEce in this country
and the last call has demonstrated that by
proper measures and liberal bounty anv
number can be had. Men can be has in
the Western States for three hundred dol
lars. 1t is proposed to offer five hundred
dollars as permanent bounty. This sum
makes an allowance for the various expen-
ses of the recruit, or even of those who
find him and bring him forward, and still
leaves q good margin for the benefit of the
the recruit or his family. 1t gives a good
sum, also, as basis for the operations and
activity of that large number of persons
who will thus be induced to lend their en-
ergies to the good cause of filling our ar
mics Recruiting will thus become per-
manenL business in the country, with ram
iflcations in every city and village, and
will, for the first time in the history ofour
war, be effective and productive of great
results.
Not only will this system enable the
army to draw regularly and properly upon
our own population, but it will also tap for
our benefit the immense and discOntented
population of Europe. Much has been
said in British papers of the activity of
United States army agents in England,
Ireland and Germany. Up to the present
time the army has not been greatly in
creased by their efforts; but it may be
supposed that those efforts have by this
time made it pretty well known in those
countries that large sums are paid here for
soldiers, and that is enough. Hundreds
and thousands of families that have looked
longingly towards life of comparative
stfiuence in this country, but hardly
hoped that they would ever have the
means to come here, will now see the way
clear. One son can pay the passage of
father, mother and two or three sisters.
Two sons can pay the passage of all the
family, and have enough left to buy farm
in the fruitful Western acres. Let it not
be thought that this is visionary. For
generations the Germans and French peas
ants have reasoned in this way On son
has gone into the army to insure the COM
fort of the rest of the family, in millions
of instances, in the every class of peasants
who now have the most ardent longing to
come to the United States. Thus, this
system of permanent bounty, while it will
keep up the army, will also prove to be a
great system of inducement to emigra-
zion.
Properly worked, there is hardly limit
to what can be done by such asystem both
here and in Europe. 1t can be made to
give US half million of men by next May
and should do So This system will, we
have no doubt most triumphantly prove
that we should have done better if we had
never had any draft at all.