Soldiers' Discharge in Time of War
By Editor
According to a law of the United States any United States soldier may purchase his discharge from the army in time of peace, but not in time of war. About forty applications to purchase discharge are now before the War Department. But here is a dilemma for the government. For political purposes the government has been proceeding upon the theory that the nation is not at war. If now this theory be followed in the issue presented as to discharge of soldiers in time of peace, it must be accompanied with “contingencies that can not be contemplated without apprehension;” whereas “there are equally dangerous complications lurking in the other proposition, namely, that the country is in a state of war.” The administration does not know what to do; and “officials regret that a decision should be required at this time.” For a trifle less than three cents a week, we will send the REVIEW to your friend — only $1.50 for one year, or for fifty-two weeks, one issue each week. Can you not afford to donate less than three cents a week to some one of your friends, who ought to be reading the REVIEW? Think it over; then send us his subscription for at least two months, at twenty-five cents, or four months, at fifty cents.