The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-02-16

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To do this the pay should be dou-
bled and tkribbled to not less than
rations and forty dollars a month, to
be paid every thirty days. This would
enable private in the ranks to send
his family few dollars occasionally.
There should be no caste system in
the United States army. 1t is often
sive to patriots.
But when on duty soldiers in the
ranks should obey their officers.
Each company, however, should
choose it's captain and lieutenants,
each regiment it's colonel and each
brigade its general.
The people are opposed to con-
scription and the congressman who
votes for such a law should be dis
missed from service.
It would be wisdom and patriotism
for the law to plainly state that no
young man under % or 80 years old
shall be admitted into the United
States army in times of peace.
This would gives youths in their
teens and twenties" opportunity to
develop Intellectually and morally
and physically and self-respectingly,
and fit them to be worthy custodians
of our civil and religious institutions,
and to transmit to future generations
| of our people untainted manhood.
Untainted manhood is an increasing
want among our young men.
In the writings of poets sayings like
these occur:
God made woman for a great des
tiny"
THE latent power of the nation is
its womanhood."
by the decree of heaven woman
has been appointed the brave advo-
cate of every virtue in the home"
knowledge is communicable, and
none can inspire the son with as much
aspiration for acquisition of knowl-
edge that will protect him from the
evils of dissipation as the mother
unto his mature manhood-which is
not before he is % or 80 years old.
Colridge says: 1.-The browning SUI
periority of the worlds highest men
has been the feminine soul superin-
duced upon their manhood"
Then do not admit the youngsters
of our country into either voluntary
or involuntary military slavery till
they are % or 80 years old-in times
of peace.
The law providing for the forma-
ton of state militia should clearly
state, young men from % to p years
Old" and men from As to so years old
should constitute the reserve militia
of the state and required to be train
ed as militia soldiers one day every
three months at points convenient to
100, by a state militia officer; and pro-
viding that such draining officer
should be paid $40 a day for his SER
vices.
This training would fit the reserve
militia when called on for serving
with efficiency as state reserve mill
tia.
Compulsory military training under
the commissioned officers of the Unit
ed States is not necessary to the
training of our soldiers into fitness
for military service.
Our state militia officers can discip
line and train the state troops.
The militia should be disciplined
and trained by state authority by
state officers and then if there is need
they will be ready to meet any enemy
in battle.
Whenever an enemy invades any
part of our country volunteers from
every branch and creek and river, and
from every plain and hill and noun
tain, and from every hamlet and town
and city, and from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, and from Canada to Mexico,
meet him and leave neither blood in
his veins nor marrow in his bones.
Let there be no compulsory mill
tary slavery.
But keep tons of powder dry and
keep millions of best guns and swords
and spears handy. and when an invad-
er comes, our farmers, as Editor Con
zales of the Charleston Is. c. Courier
said of our patriot farmers, who van
pushed Tarlton in the battle of Eutaw
Springs, in his unmatched poem, al
though composed of four lines:
The patriot yeOmen saw their bleed
ing country's woe.
The smoking towns and wasted
fields.
! They rushed to meet the invading foe