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get into a scrap 111 try to do my bit, and if the wooden-faced Jape make any more "protests" I believe in tell ing 'em to go to hell if they don't like our style. Edgar Lessrhan, Re cruiting Officer Bos' Brigade, 73 W. Randolph St, 4th Floor. DOESN'T WANT WAR Why all this shouting about war? Any one reading a paper these days would think that everybody was in favor of war. Well, I wish to go on record as . saying that I am not, and also ven ture to say that there are millions in this broad and glorious country who think likewise. a It is a crime against humanity for those yellow journals to create a war feeling when there is small cause for it. J. H. WHY SHOULD I ENLIST? If we believe what the loop press is print ing there is a grave danger of the American-born Germans starting a 1 revolution if the kaiser declares war on us: Of course, we all know that is all bunk. Jim Keeley has been bawling out Horace Brand for his recent utter ances, yet if it were Hengland we were going to war with Jymes would be as rabid as any one in denounc ing our president and country. If we have a certain element in this country who are enjoying the full franchise as American citizens, and who are more loyal to some worm eaten foreign monarch than they are to the flag of the United States, where is an American who is willing to fight and suffer for her going to get off at? If I enlist, who will take care of the ones depending on me while I am gone? Will I have a job open to me when I come back? We couldn't take care of the few dependents of the boys who went down last year to the border, and the only jobs open for them were some places they couldn't get any one to take, like working on screw ma chines at the Western Electric or in the packing room at Seafs-Roebuck. When I come back will I be given preference in civil service? Like hell, I will. Some foreigner who belongs to some Foreign-American political club will get all the ' government, state and municipal plums and all I get is the laugh. I must be a common soldier, while j some big punk, just fresh from col lege, will be commanding regiments. Say, what is the matter with our col lege men? Are they all cold-footed? None of them are enlisting and our B. B. is trying to coax them into service by offering them commis sions. His Maje-esty, Bertie McCormick, spent 49 days down on the border, and most of that time entertaining visitors, yet he is called on to tell our senators how to run an army. Of course, Bertie was over in Yurrup and was entertained by the Cold Cream - Gawds in Hengland, the SquareHead Hussars, in Deutchland, and the Buttinsky Battery in Russ land, and saw as much of the fight ing as we saw in the movies here, but he had pull enough to have a lot of senators listen to his yapping. It "wasn't war, but I bet his listeners thought it was hell, anyway. Now, Bertie is going to personally conduct this, war, at least, so he says in his paper. Between you and me, Cochran,! think the best man on the Trib is Jimmy Durktn, the office boy. Here again we have Kernel Ed. White with his Gringo Scouts. Who in hell and what are they? White was a lieutenant in the Sev enth Illinois in '98, so he goes ahead and gloms himself a colonel's title. He has a regiment organized as much as I have. Go ask the boys in the Waldron Murphy camp about him. So with all these nuts coming to the front in the papers I ask you why should I enlist? Taft wants conscription. For te,