Writes a friend: “While I haven’t gone through all of the responses here, from what I’ve seen so far the overall reaction is disgustingly predictable. It may well be that buried somewhere beneath the usual horse___ about ‘sacrifice’, ‘patriotism’, ad nauseum, is an honest acknowledgement of the true nature of conscription — slavery — but I’m not betting on it, and in any case I don’t have the stomach to plough all the way through. Oh, there are some here and there who do oppose the draft, but usually on the grounds that it would constitute a lowering of standards, … Continue reading The Coming Draft?