Boys' Military Drill and the Spanish War Fever

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 16, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 16.

Boys' Military Drill and the Spanish War Fever

The following item we clip from the Union Signal; it is a natural outgrowth of the war education in our Sunday School Boys’ Brigades, and military drill, etc.:—

“The boys’ military organization in the Philadelphia public schools has the war fever, as might be expected. The boys are discussing the advisability of marching on Spain. One nine-year-old has made and burned paper copies of the Spanish flag and shot off his pistol as a part of his declaration. Small boys’ ‘doings,’ but it tells which way the wind blows, and will continue to blow with military training.”