The idea that a great many people have with reference to conscription. as to how it is going to operate. and the class of people that will be conscripted. will appear from this telegram. which. of course. is a false impression: DnAA Sit: As organizer and executive of American Merchants Syndicate. composed of 12.000 real American merchants in every State. I Implore you to vote for conscriptionNow why? Listen: and let the loafers and unsympathetic. naturalized foreigners do their part. Now. *that is from a man who says lie is representing 12.000 merchants. giving his reasons why we ought to vote for conscription and the necessity for it. t6 "Let the loafers and unsympathetic naturalized foreigners do their part." And yet we are told by those who advocate conscription that they expect to have an efficient army. and they expect to have men who will fight. and it seems they expect to get them by drafting the loafers.
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Naturalized foreigners are described as loafers and unsympathetic.