Part 29 (1/2)

--Ah, I forgot, I cannot help ad the ease hich, in certain countries, thethem other names

--Like _consolidated duties_, which have becoendaruards_

--In short, trusting to Utopia, you disarm the country

--I said that I would muster out the army, not that I would disarive it invincible power

--How do you harmonize this mass of contradictions?

--I call all the citizens to service

--Is it worth while to relieve a portion from service in order to call out everybody?

--You did not s as they are Thus, on my advent to power, I shall say with Richelieu, ”the State ed” My first maxim, the one which will serve as a basis for s--How to earn his own living, and defend his country

--It seeood sense in this

--Consequently, I base the national defense on a law consisting of two sections

Section First Every able-bodied citizen, without exception, shall be under arms for four years, from his twenty-first to his twenty-fifth year, in order to receive military instruction--

--This is pretty economy! You send home four hundred thousand soldiers and call out ten millions

--Listen to my second section:

SEC 2 _Unless_ he proves, at the age of twenty-one, that he knows the school of the soldier perfectly

--I did not expect this turn It is certain that to avoid four years'

service, there will be a great eht flank_ and _double quick, march_ The idea is odd

--It is better than that For without grieving fa equality, does it not assure the country, in a simple and inexpensivea coalition of all the standing aruard, I should end in getting interested in your fancies

_The Utopist, getting excited:_ Thank Heaven, my estimates are relieved of a hundred millions! I suppress the _octroi_ I refund indirect contributions I--

_Getting ious freedom and free instruction There shall be new resources I will buy the railroads, pay off the public debt, and starve out the stock gamblers

--My dear Utopist!

--Freed from too nuovernment on the repression of fraud, the administration of prompt and even-handed justice I--

--My dear Utopist, you atteave me the majority