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Militia to tfes BorderWyoming's soldier boys have gone to the bonier. This is very gratifying to most of them and they will undoubtedly enjoy the experience for at least a short period of time, anti I the novelty wears off. Just how long they will be on the border no one iu\ say, but is not probablo that it will be less than two months and might be all winter. The several months they have put in at Cheyenne, have not been altogether pleasant ones. No little discord has crept into the camp and the discipline has not been such that the boys have been kept away from the vice and immorality of the worse element of the city. The military training received has been more than offset by the other side of army life.The removal of the militia from the state will take away quite a number of votes, most of which are republi-can. If the boys could vote on the border, us was the case with the Maine militia, it would doubtless be to the advantage of the republican party, but they are deprived of their right of suffrage under our state law. The maverick law does not reach their case, as it does not permit of any person voting under its provisions beyond the limits of the state.It is exceedingly difficult for the av-jtrege citl/cu to the necessity for sending militia to the border. There is no war there and ju it why the rtg-lar army is unable to cope with the aid is wry fhat is going on is hard to fathom. Uncle Sam has already spent more than one hundred million nt’lars on tnis busiriMs and the end m not in sifcht.
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Douglas Enterprise
Douglas, Wyoming, US
Tue, Oct 03, 1916
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