The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-04
ALL WHO RESIST
DRAFT WILL GET
QUICK JUSTICE
Conscription at Once or In
terment Is Hinted
1o,ooo,ooo LIABLE
Attorney-GeneraI Gregory Admits He
Expects 10000 Will Try to Evade
Registration.

Washington, June with registra-
tion day only twenty,four hours away,
the department of justice tonight is
sued its final warning against at
tempts to evade the law.
Attorney General Gregorys state
ment follows
81 anticipate no resort to force to
eyade registration. If any individual
should attempt il he viii be promptly
dealt with.
In almost every community there
will be persons who will attempt to
eyade registration. One class will con
sist of weeaklings who lack the physi-
cal and moral courage necessary to
face the possibility of fight, and
another of those under the influence
of men and women beyond the con
scription age who are endeayoring to
dissuade young men from registering
Some of the people eXerting this in
fiuence are wholly disloyal; others are
lacking in patriotism or an apprecia-
tion of the needs of their country, and
are animated by fear of the possible
loss OF members OF their families.
THE young men of the country who
come within the provision of the con
scription act are brave and inherently
loyal. They are ready and willing,
in nearly every instance, to answer to
the nations call and do their part in
protecting it from foreign foe,
THE registration law puts into eff
feet a policy new to the present gen.
Grafton. II is to be expected some in
dividuals subject to the law will at.
tempt To evade it, To him who does
not grasp the magnitude of the regis
tration proposed the number who on
ter may seem large.
Attention is called to the fact that
more than 10.000,0O0 men, according
to census facts, are subject to regis
tration The failure Of one man in one
hundred to register will make a con
siderable total. If the early returns
show the number registered does not
equal the preliminary estimates, it
will not indicate the law has not been
generally obeyed Those who attempt
to evade will be promptly punished
and compelled to performe the ser
vice required by the law 1t is the
duty of this department to prosecute
these evaders and il is prepared to do
sc.
1t was pointed out at the depart
ment that of the eleven arrests made
in Cincinnati yesterday. ten of the
prisoners had Germans names. This
Gin ~ n to fob ,,Tj
the wholesale propaganda being car
iied On in this country. and which is
fourishing especially in the central
and far west, despite the governments
efforts to stamp it out.
Attorney General Gregory admitted
there probably would not be less than
10000 men who would fail to register
or attempt to evade registration.
The plans of the department for
dealing with this large number OF
cases have all been made, Arrests
will follow in every instance and there
will be no court delay as failure to
register will be an open and shut ma,
ter in every case.
Immediate draft of all those physi-
caly capable into the army probably
will follow. The others will be i'm
prisoned. sentence on the drafted
ones will be suspended until after
the war
The lack of prison space for the
number of prisoners who viii be con
victed OF attempts to evade the law
will be met by the establishment of
internment camps, it is believed