We believe that a great deal of miscellaneous work will
be done by the Volunteers ; but even if only a small amount of work were accomplished, the Volunteer movement would have justified itself. Not only do the men know their drill, and in many eases know it well, and are also very fair rifle shots, but they have got an organization. This means that if embodiment took place we should at once have a body of soldiers who had already advanced well beyond the mob stage, and who after they had been a week under arms would be anything but a negligible quantity Once more, recognition must be followed by recruitment. We want to see the number of Volunteers doubled, and if possible trebled. Our ideal should be a million good Volunteers, and there is no reason why this ideal should not be reached. Just as the question, "Why are you not in the Army ? " must be addressed to every man of military age, so every man between forty and sixty should be asked, "Why are you not in the Volunteers ? "
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