President. to convey the thought which I have when I protest against calling a system democratic. however necessary. because it claims to operate impartially. Democracy means liberty. and liberty is wholly at war with the autocratic weapon of compulsory service. What peopled this country during the first century of the Nations life with immigrants from the old country if their coming to our shores had not behind it the desife to escape from monarchies under whose laws they were compelled to live? It used to be said that every European peasant carried a soldier upon his back. It might be said that every European peasant was subjected to a system which compelled him. to be a soldier.
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Every European peasant carried a soldier upon his back.