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    • MILITAR Y REFORM.
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      Letter No. 3. Miss Leonora Loring, M.P.,...

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      174 The Tomaha Wk. Iqctober 24, 1868.

      174 THE TOMAHA WK . IQctober 24 , 1868 .

      Britannia And Hispania ; Or, Two Views O...

      BRITANNIA AND HISPANIA ; or , TWO VIEWS OF IT .

      Britannia Revolution .—Well Very , Decen...

      Britannia revolution . —Well very , decentl sister , yo y . u As have the reall guide y accomp and model lished of your all free tainl , enl patronise ightened you , and liberty in fact -loving nations , I shall cer-Hispania I scarcel . —Thank understand you , for your . You notice wish , but me pray to follo pardon w in me if steps ? y you your Brit table . —Precisel moral y . Be le a . happy , contented , pious , good , chari-, peop Hisp of . — starvation Why , last in week the I read midst that th of ree London wretched . women died Brit . —Possibly . very Hisp graded . —Then and I ill have -treated heard in E that urope your . poor are the most de-Brit . —Well ? Hisp sobriety . —And . as You a nation are the you most do not drunken stand high people on the the score world of , while as to morality——Brit subj . —Excuse ect . It me is not , but decent I cannot . discuss such an improper Hisp up . —As societies you wish to , conv but your ert the piety heathen then ? beyond They say the you seas fatten , but Brit let . — infidelity The newspapers and vice lie play . havoc in your very midst . Hisp that . —So a portion your Press of it i tell s not s the immaculate truth , you 1 seem However to be , gra drifting nted into a pretty state of things with that Prime Minister of Brit yours . —He . is the champion of religious liberty Hisp thousand . —And would people , therefore in the face , force of fou the r milions creed . of five hundred Hi Brit sp . . — —B He y stirring is preaching up the the embers gospel of sectarian peace hatred ? Brit . —He will vindicate the principles of Church and State at Hisp . —At cost the cost of riot , or bloodshed , or worse ? PI Brit isp . . — — B And y tramp establish ling both justice under and foot right . ——Brit these . —Reall are y the , you present are incorri blessings gible vouchsafed . I tell you to us once by Eng for all sh , Hisp liberty . —Then . in the name of all that is honest , keep them for yourself . Good morning .

      Militar Y Reform.

      MILITAR Y REFORM .

      " Whichever Party May Be In Power Next Y...

      " Whichever party may be in power next year " says Mr . you And Gladstone , and there that is to no is the , that doubt men you of that Warrington will b have oth sides greatl , " are one y diminished agreed thing I that will Estimates gu retrench arantee . " - navy ment , shall and in be civil the order services of . the Retrenchment day . Retrenchment , reasonable in army or , un - reasonable , judicious or injudicious ; the only question in the race sum total is , which . party shall reach the lowest . figure—the lowest Well , it is very certain that there is great room for retrenchment But we , and confess ample to field having for great the judicious fears that use the of the reductions pruning will knife be . too motives hurried to to be be safe well and considered reasonable , too . much However extorted , although by party even injudiciou be worth while s retrenchment to think over may be some better items than of none possible , yet saving it may , which with them might the themselves further be blessing benefits of to the diminishing service , while the bringing public reformer expenditure One such . Let . measur this e opportunity will occur of to reduction the mind be of seized every to military rid the army of all bad characters . The recently published statistics traordinary of military imprisonment specialities of have military revealed life . to Cases the public are recorded some ex of - year soldiers . Picture tried by that court to -martial yourself no , non less -military than twenty reader times ! Realise in one this what : that that a means soldier , thou be uncomp so bad laining that taxpayer he is too ! bad It means to be turned his butler out or of valet the service to may trial . for Fan successive cy one of cri the mes Ministers twenty bring times in one year . Would anyone out of Bedlam , —or in Bedlam , as Mr . that Bright he says has , to —think pay and for feed a moment out of of his so dealing own pocket with . a No servant , the to man be does thus not always live on who trial would . And keep yet a there servant are hundreds in his own of house wellintentioned ordinarilv-intellisrent officers who will tell vou that

      it is an excellent practice as regards her Majesty ' s servants in if the you army did . not In fact insist , that upon the hundred service woul s of d soldiers " go to the being dogs kept , Sir in , " , the £ 80 army , 000 a onl -year y to in be supporting shut up in 3 , 650 prison soldiers , —if you in confinement did not expen , not d spent to men in tion building the half military million prisons of . money that you have already It is true that in the estimates laid before Parliament the of cost . £ 80 of the Imprison and that ment onl vote £ 15000 is put is voted at £ annuall 15 , 000 onl for y , this instead service . , But , this pleasantl y y modified , result is attained y by the being clever the device unused of deducting pay of the from 3 , the 650 £ soldiers 80 , 000 the always sum of in £ 65 prison , , . m Thus ore tha by n an ing u want enious legerdemain £ 65000 , for you vote more , firstly than , 3 , 650 men will pay sonment them , , to yo provide , £ 65 , 000 , that towa number , rds , the of cost men of pay confining for perpetual them you impri . - even Nation the House of lunatics of Commons that we are for , wo £ 500 uld , 000 any to one build venture priso ns to polic shut e up vote badl as y behaved pay of 36 polic 50 policemen emen , and always to take in . prison £ 65 , 000 ? in And the yet without any whisper , of a commission of lunacy , the Secrey tary ear with State regard for to War the pay ually of the so 3 6 eals 50 imprisoned with the House soldiers ev . co Is ntrary the case , the desperate remedy is — is it ou wholl r ow n , w ithout nds , and remedy is a perfectly On the easy one . , Let the main punishment in the army be , as in the me police nt and force reduction —Dismissal be taken . Let advantage the present of occasion to get rid 01 of retrench all bad - Bo and unty usele be ss abolished men from , so the that army the . Let men the thus pernicious discharged system would of have branding no i men nducement to prevent to re them -enlist re- , enlisting and the would brutal no s longer ystem be of necessary . Let it be felt throughout the army and throughout be the lost nati by on m that iscond servic uct e , not in h a er pen Maje al servitude sty ' s army , to is be an endured honour and , to h missed eld to the by army force a j dozen and for respectable every incorrigible young men blackguard will be eager disknown to join it to , t contaminate o enter a body , and assured of men that purg no ed longer from all will that they be re

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    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Oct. 24, 1868, page 174, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_24101868/page/2/