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THE MISERABLE SLACKERS It is said that about 100 deserters from the United States army are eking out a miserable ex ¬ istence at the Mormon settlement in northern Mex ¬ ico Despised by the Mexican neighbors and haunted by the consciousness of their guilt they are pitiful objects In the Arkansas hills and woods are other such men without a country being hunted down sometimes giving up their lives ignobly instead of saving their souls by doing their part in the defense of home and country countryWhat What a choice In the hope of present safety these slackers have taken a course that proves them willing to give up the country that is defending them to the enemy invader to work his will in wholesome slaughter in the ruin of cities in the torture and death of women and children and In the slavery of the survivors including themselves themselvesThe The guilt of the man who deserts his country in her timo of neod is the worst possible guilt Tacitly he is an aid to the ruomy and a traitor to the mother who bore him Unless altogether brutalized and degraded there Is no rest for him waking or dreaming this side the grave His only hope of relief is in givins himself up to take such punishment as the law may inflict St Louis Post Dispatch
