T(To the Editor of the Evening Star.)
Sib,—A long article appears in your contemporary this morning advocating the Tolnnteer cause, and justifying the rery stringent new regulations as being just what are required by all rightthinking persons. Just so. Well, I say, let the editor of the paper in question enrol himself and have a try at thedisoiph'ne of the force. There is a vast difference in promoting volunteering by personal service on the one one hand, nnd by providing the bunches of carrots on the other hand. The-carrots of course take the shape of watches, caps, medals, Sec. It is the humble opinion of your correspondent that joining the volunteers under the present regulations is like enlisting into the regular service without any remuneration. If the regulations are to be carried out I should consider them inconvenient in their bearing on the volunteer's civilian pursuits. If the regulations are to be observed as a dead-letter, then the whole thing is from .beginning to end—Bosh.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4384, 22 January 1883, Page 3
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