17 JANUARY 1903, Page 17

A SUBSTITUTE FOR CONSCRIPTION.

[To TEN EDITOR OF THE "EPECTATOR."] fit,—Anything like military conscription would trench more or less on liberty, hence to a commercial nation Volunteering is preferable. If some of the larger firms who employ from eight hundred to a thousand men would each form and locally equip at their own expense a Volunteer regiment, it would not only assist rifle clubs, but it would also engender an internal military' rivalry of no small value. What Lord Strathcona Aid many others can do.—I am, Sir, &c.,