The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-03-01

vertisements will be put in the news
papers. These will tell that all private
soldiers will receive $13 per month on
home station and $3.50 on foreign SER
vice. In addition to this they get
clothing and lodging and food and doc
tors and insurance-or pension, which
Is practically the same thing; and the
infantrymen will have to walk, but be-
cause of it he gets rid of keeping horse
clean, as the cavalryman will have to
do. The recruiting sergeants will say
that tailors can make as high as $40
month and BARRIERS almost as much
If they get with the right companies.
And then the recruiting officers will
reject three men out of every four offer
ing themselves, as they always do, and
the new army of $4,000 men will be rais-
ed somehow or other.
There will be no bounty, at least
none to recruits. Volunteers now in the
Philippines who choose to go into the
service again for three years, which is
the term of enlistment, may get about
5000 in cash paid them. The govern
ment explains this as travel pay, arguing
that, as 1t would cost $500 to bring the
man home and send him out again, il
he agreed to save the government that
expense he is entitled to the equivalent
in good hard cash.
And it is true. That $500 bounty
will get Uncle Sam recruits by the
hundreds-by the thousands. Three
hundred dollars is a lot of money to a
man working for $50 a month, and $50
a month is about what S13 month and
the perquisites of private soldier
amount to.
1000 Officers Needed.
This new army calls for about 1000
officers, almost all of them second lieu
tenants, barring twenty-five who will
| be chaplains. These will be divided
equally among the states--not by law,
but because the Republican congress-
men and senators have asked the presi-
dent to relieve the pressure by passing
the honor around. A second lieutenant
draws $116 a month in the infantry and
| from that up to $125 in the other
branches of the service. To get COM
mission as second lieutenant, one must
apply to the secretary of the war and
send with his application the indorse-
ment of everybody with pull in his
district or out of 1t, If he can manage.
| Private soldiers can, at the end of
their first year, go through the examina-
tion which, if they pass and there are
vacancies after the West Pointers are
billeted, will gain for them second
lieutenant's commission. 1t was a three
year wait till now. A year is all the
war department requires under the new
bill.
Friends of men wearing the "V" know
now they will all be home by June, or
shortly after it, depending on how the
governments twelve transports work,
and that there are $50 a month jobs
for 5000 physically perfect young men
who do not object to spending three
years in travelling in the Orient, study
ing Spanish and picking up smatter-
ing of Japanese as they touch at
Nagasaki, or Chinese when hailing
Hong Kong, or some other lingo when
touching at the Hawaiian islands for
water and orders.
Sergeant Donahue is enthusiastic
over the prospects of enlistng a large
4 number of recruits in Canton and vi
/ cinity, and he never tires of reciting
tales of the glowing prospects which are
ever before him. He feels certain that
when the boys" come home from tho
Philippines they will want to re-enlist,
and that they will do so at his station,
in Canton.