Note 4 — “MILITARISM AND AGGRESSION”

There is one of Mr. Blatchford’s proposals to which I feel the strongest possible objection; that is the suggestion that those who do not volunteer for his citizen force should pay extra taxation. This sounds fair enough, no doubt, but its effect would clearly be that the rich could escape service and the poor could not—which is hardly a Socialist ideal. Surely it is sounder policy to make such citizen training as you give compulsory for all able-bodied citizens.