[To TER EDrI011 or THR . BPICTATOR:1 SIB,—In your last issue
you say : "Enlist, if you are young enough, and if not, see to it that every man whom you can influence shall do his duty by enlisting." Well, I am not young enough to enlist, and I should like to know, in case I try to induce some one else to do so, what answer I am to make if he turns on me and says: " You are asking me to risk my life, when you know quite well you will not have to risk yours, and when there is no evi- dence to show that you ever would have been willing to risk it at any time." I stand in the matter, perhaps, on firmer ground than many, as I served a fairly long term in the old Volunteers and I belong now to the National Reserve, but, still, I am conscious of the difficulty which I have tried [We feel the difficulty, but no honest man will ever use the taunt to a man barred by age or illness. If it is used, reply : "You would not make my age an excuse for your inaction unless you had at heart determined to avoid your duty. Anyway, I shall not allow your taunts to prevent me doing my duty."—ED. Spectator.]
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