RIFLE CLUBS.
[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR:)
would, with your permission, supplement my letter in the Spectator of May 19th with one or two words which are suggested by your comment. I am glad to see that you only advocate rifle clubs as feeders for Volunteer regi- ments, but I still doubt whether they would not drain rather than feed. It seems to me very possible that these clubs would intercept many who would otherwise join the Volun- teers, but would salve their consciences by wrongly feeling that without doing this they were nevertheless not quite idle or useless. Also that, if the better classes in a town formed a club, as they would very likely do, it would be considered the
smart" thing to belong to the club, and the corps would be relegated to an inferior social position. I am sure you will agree with me that the more this subject is ventilated the better, and will therefore excuse me for again troubling you.
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