Sioux City Register

"How to get out of the Draft,"—The meeting at Casady's Hall last Tuesday evening to adopt measures to relieve Sioux City from the impending draft, was a "big thing." We went early in order to get a front seat. Got a board well ahead, and sat on it from 7 o'clock until 8 o'clock, and was badly bored. At 8 o'clock precisely we drew our pocket diary (which we purchased at Howard's opposition drug store for $2.25—cheap as dirt) from our breast pocket and took a census of those present. After the noses were carefully counted we calculated the result by taking the corrected enrollment as the basis, (which gives the number enrolled in Sioux City about 100) and subtracting from this 100 the number that should have been at the meeting, being 84, we readily found the number of enrolled men present to be exactly sixteen, and no fractions.

Justice to ourselves compels us to acknowledge that we were disgusted with the result, and left without further delay for our sanctum.

Candidly, the meeting Tuesday night demonstrates that our citizens take very little interest in the approaching draft, and like Micawber are disposed to wait for "something to turn up." That something will be an Assistant Provost Marshal with notices that some of us are "drafted into the army." Then it will be too late to raise volunteers, and we must "come down with the dust" for a substitute or go to the front, "Choose ye this day."