The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-04-05
Proposition for Voluntary Service
From Working Class and Com
puIsory for the
Wealthy.
Is PLAN OF DE BROKE
Head Constable Of Little Town Has
Sixteen Positions and
Gets Salary Of SIS
Monthly.

IBy Ed l.. Keen London correspond
ent Of the United Press.]
LONDON, April compulsory
military service for those whose In
comes exceed $4,000; voluntary SER
vice for the working classes. These
are the objects Of an extraordinary
bill which is now receiving the at
tention Of parliament. 1t was not
introduced by Kerr Hardie, nor by
the present liberal administration.
but, strange to say, by the holder OF
one of the Oldest and proudest titles
in Great Britain.
Lord Willoughby de Broke (who'
by the way, doesn't look at all ike
his name sounds) Is hide-bound
conservative, and although there are
those who say this bill is designed
chiefly to embarrass the liberals VINO
are opposed to any form OF compails-
ory service, his lordship swears ne 10
perfectly sincere, and his frlends at
test the honesty of his intentions.
Willogouhby de Broke's own mllitary
| experience has been limited to the
service with the Warwickshire Yoe-
many, a military regiment OF cav
airy in which he was major; but as
descendant of one of the warriors who
helped HenryDVII smash "Crookoack
Dick O'Gloucester" in the battle OF
Bosworth and who was Afterwards
made captain-general Of the Br1tlsn
forces in France, doubtless he con-
siders it hereditary duty TO see
what he can do to improve the de-
lenses of England.
! The noble lord declares he IS not
in favor of CONSUMPTION along con-
tinental lines. but, agreeing Win
Field Marshal Earl Roberts and Sir
EVELYN Wood that the British army
4 is fast going to the demnition DOW
vows. he insists that something be
I done before it is too late. Accord
ingly he proposes that every young
man belonging to the comtortapie
classes, should be compelled TO seFVe
) ten years in the territorial army
militia. thereby displaying consider
a ble more political cunning than ROD
erts Wood. and the other militarist
members of the national service
; league. whose aim is military service
for all.
1.-THE serious force that is repeiiins
the idea of universal military train
ing" said Lord Willoughby de Broke
in n statement to the United Press
"is that great many poor people,
rightly or wrongly, mistrust the mo
tives of the rich in advocating such
, , nlan These peo@le think that uni
yersal service is only another de-
vice for forcing poor people to oe-
fend the possessions OF the r1ch.
. The task before Us is to win their
confidence and to disarm that class
feeling which Is at present stahaihs
in the way Of effective national de-
/ fense This can be done by example
better than by precept. My bill pro-
noses that the comfortable classes
shall offer a guarantee of their own
. good faith in the matter OF n1iiltarS
service. by making that service COM
pulsory upon all who enjoy more than
a certain standard of comfort ana
privilege, and by leaving it volun-
tarv to those who are below thae
standard.
! Fortv.five years Of age and Tar
more comfortably provided Win
e worldly goods than the last portion
ri his name would indicate, the 18TH
BARON Willoughby de Broke is one OF
the most active members of the house
V IF lords. He sat as a conservative
J. member for his home district In the
n house of commons for five years pe-
y fore succeeding to the title, and Is
s now marked out for cabinet 1ob I'D
ii tho next conservative organization.
e WiIloughby de Broke's actlvltles
q recently, placed War Minister Coione'
s. Seely. who at this writing has resign
n ed his post but his resignation nor
st accepted, in rather awkward posi-
ton In the days that he was CON
d. servative. Seely declared that com
az nulsorv service was imperative ano
" inevitable. and now with the militia
Nv force 10000 below the minimum O,
al safety as laid down by Lord haldahe
d fthen war minister>, folks are won
r.. derine how he could turn down the
ga assistance offered thus by Willougno!
ng de Broke, especially as only shor
time ago in the house OF commons ~