RECRUITING.
[To TIM EDITOR Or TEL "EFECTATOR.1 SIR,—Reading your articles in the Spectator about the need of more men induces me to write and let you know the position out here. There are large numbers of men here longing to go to the front. Owing to the war and a poor harvest, great numbers of these are out of work. They are the right stuff to work on if properly drilled and instructed. In this city alone eleven hundred gave in their names for the second contingent, and two hundred and fifty-two were selected. In Calgary the numbers were still larger, and the same in Edmonton and Winnipeg. I believe the Canadian Government to be doing all it can, but it has to pay its men $1 (4s.) a day and provide food and uniform and rifle. Why does not the British Government offer to transport these volun- teers and give them Army pay ? I believe thousands would go. They are farmers, cowboys, ranchers, and some city men, but most can ride and shoot well and are accustomedto rough it and manage for themselves. The pay is not the trouble—it is the transportation and equipment. The spirit is there to go and fight for the Empire. Why not encourage it P—I am,
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