Abstract

Kill the Conscription Bill!

The U.S. Democrats don't like a bloody struggle to assume the shape of "a rich man's war and a poor man's fight." The contrast between the creation of some thousands of new millionaires and the creation of some scores of thousands of corpses dead from lead and gas has bitten deep. The veterans' groups have been demanding that capital as well as men be drafted in the next war. Other groups are worried by the prospect of a really first-class post-war depression, and join in demanding the heaviest taxation bearable in order to avoid inflation and a real collapse. The gentlemen who run things have taken these things into consideration and assure the countrymen that the next war will not be marred by profiteering or any inequality of suffering. The chairmen of the House and Senate Military Affairs Committees have introduced their bill.