Connecticut western news., 1917-08-30
Letters From the People.
Canaan, Conn. August 26th, 1917.

Canaan, Conn.
 August 26th, 1917. To the Editor of the Connecticut Wes.
 tern News:
 Dear Sir:
 Ihaveread with something approach. ing disgust, the Articie in the News of Aug. 16th inveighipg against con. scrlption and signed B. H.
 B. H. evidently thinks it feather in his cap, that his ancestors should have fought in all the Wars of this country?
 How should like to know why if B. H. feels so proud of this fact, does he wish to deprive his descendants of the same qualification; and incidentally I wonder if his ancestors volunteered or were drafteoj
 If there is anything in heredity; I guess, they were drafted.
 I wonder if the writer of that screed ever stopped to consider, the pleasure it would give to Kaiser Bill, to read such evidence of our unwilling. ness to fight. You may rest assured, that the Agents of German propaganda in this Country, will be only too ready to seize with avidity such Tid Bit for their Imperial Masters delectation.
 also wonder what B. H. has done individually towards making this country such a desirable country to live in? rra-r- .E
 I was an alien; My two brothers and came to this country, because We thought that we saw an opening, that circumstanced as we were we could not obtain in England (the home of our- bfrtf1 and we introduced new business into this country, that, at the present time numbers it's employees by the thousands. Besides adding to the beauty of every city in the land ]: Architectural Terra Cotta".
 We all became citizens; and brought up our children to feel that this was the only country worth living in or fighting for.
 We, myself and wife, have brought up family of 8 children, and have now 4 Boys, one has wife and 3 chil- dren; he has been drafted; perhaps he will be exempted. If not he is willing to fight and to go to France to fight, rather than wait for the Germans to come here and treat us as they have treated all the people in those countries they have been able to overrun. Another son has thrown up a good position to enlist in ths Naval Reserve without waiting to be drafted. And still another, in his last letter to his mother informed us that he was about to enlist in the same service.
 Our youngest son is in the Canaan Home Guard, and is at present below the draft age. He assures us that he will enlist in the Navy as soon as he is acceptable
 And can assure you that neither their mother nor I, would dream of putting any obstacle in the way of their doing what they have been taught to believe as their duty to their country.
 If either or all of them should fail | to come back we should have the satIs. faction of feeling that they died, doing their duty and in defence of the country of our adoption.
 Our eldest son "Sam" whom some of your readers will remember was killed by Trolley car in Kansas City. Can anyone imagine that it would be greater blow to us to lose a son in defence of his country, than it was to lose our best, by the incompetence or carelessness of trolley employee.
 An American of my ownfree choice | Sam Taylor. l .- Not s. T. P. S. Perhaps if some of our true born Americans wouli rail less at the Ad- ministration and Military authorities it would give greater encouragement and incentive to aliens to enlist