MILITARY DISCIPLINE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 108, 8 May 1909, Page 2

MILITARY DISCIPLINE.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,— The great progress made by Germany during the past decade has caused ft genuine uneasiness in England, and I think every truo Briton ought to endeavour to find out the cause of the sueCOS 3of our great rival, for we can no longer assume thai one Briton is worth three Germans, since tho latter nation seems now almost strong enough io conclusions with Britain itself in the race for world Empire. I am clearly of opinion that the cause of Germany's commercial and military success is in her willingness to submit to discipline. From what I have observed in a brief residence in this colony the working man is really too impalieui, of any restraint He does not appear to recognise that thero is in every country a certain class born to rule arid that it has always been to his advantage that the better class of citizen should rule. To encourage these idetts, I think that a certain fixed system of military discipline should be enforced upon the humbler though perfectly worthy class of our people. They oiiould be disciplined and efunered by the better class, who would thus learn to take their proper and assured place in the public system of this

fair colony, which should be one of the brightest "jewoh in England's crown. — I am, etc., ENGLISHMAN. sth May.