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Title: The Independent
Year: 1849 (1840s)
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Publisher: New York : S.W. Benedict
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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and purposes. Allcitizens must pay taxes in proportion to their ability;the proposition is undebatable. In like manner, all citi-zens must aid their country in war, in proportion totheir ability; there is no more room for dissent here thanthere. Democracy cannot be divorced from the universalobligation to service. The practical considerations lead irresistibly to thesame conclusion. War cannot be successfully waged—andno nation has any right to enter a war which it does notpropose to wage to a successful issue—with volunteerforces. The Civil War proved it; the experience of GreatBritain in the present war has proved it. It is better toface this truth first than last. The voluntary system takes away from industry andother indispensable pursuits men more needed by theircountry behind the lines than in the fighting ranks. Themen who are to carry on all the multitudinous activitiesthat make up modern warfare should be assigned totheir respective duties—on the firing line, behind the
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Drawn for The Independent ly W. 0. MorrU THE POSTSCRIPT April 21, 1917 THE INDEPENDENT 153 trenches, in the factories and workshops, on the farms,in the offices, everywhere at home and abroad—by thoseupon whom devolve the leadership of the nations efforts.Only that way lies effectiveness. Only effective warfareis worthy warfare. President Wilson in his proclamation to the Americanpeople declares with all the emphasis of the utmost sim-plicity: The supreme test of the nation has come. Wemust all speak, act, and serve together. There can be but one answer, We will. UNITED WE STAND NEVER in the history of the United States have thepeople of this country entered a war with suchunanimity of mind and given it such united support.In the days when an Englishman named George Wash-ington took up arms against a German king calledGeorge III we were very far from being united. Alarge and influential part of the population took the Toryside and all thru the Revolution the country was torn bydisse

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