The American mother can not solace herself with the thought that what Dr. Aked referred to was a practice in far-away England and does not much concern her. For this new crucifixion of Jesus and the degradation of the little boys, a strong society exists in the United States. The United Boys’ Brigade is an organization for training the trigger-fingers and the blood-lusts of boys nine years and upward in the basement rooms of Christian churches. “The object of the organization,” as announced in the monthly magazine of the organization, _The American Brigadier_, is “to ... promote reverence and discipline ... to create in them a love for their country ... and while the boys are _thoroughly drilled in military discipline and tactics_, it only serves to make them true Christian _soldiers_.”[276] _The American Brigadier_ announces officially that “there is nothing equal to it in drawing them into the Sabbath School.” Thus the church is to be made like a prize-fighting ring in order to make it look good to the little boys. _The American Brigadier_, of December, 1907, gives away its secret in a lengthy account, headed, “Securing a New Recruit,” as follows: (One boy says to another): “We go to Bible drill every Saturday night and have setting-up exercises and Bible drill, and sometimes we visit other companies. Gee! but our company can show them how to drill. And we go camping in summer, and we have a bully time.... Bible drill?... Gee! but there are some bully stories in the Bible.... We read about Samson, the strong man that beat Sandow all hollow, and King David, the siege of Jericho, and last week we read about a shepherd boy killing a giant with a sling-shot....” In _The Brigadier_ of November, 1907, is an article, “What it Means to be a Soldier,” in which is the following: “There is but one word that covers all, and that is obedience: obedience to orders and strict discipline. The foundation of all military organizations rests upon this one basis.” Precisely: _obedience_. That is to say, an innocent little fellow who has been drilled thus for several years to forget that _he_ has a brain and a will of _his own_, drilled to obey _all_ orders _instantly_—such a boy at the age of twenty will, of course, _automatically_ and stupidly obey _any_ order—_no matter how vile_—even the order: “Fire! Charge!”—though “the enemy,” the target, be little silk-mill wage-slave girls ten or twelve years old who must toil a whole week for $1.60, and are out on strike for a dime more per week, and while out on strike are _starved_ into being “riotous.” Armed rowdies—with riot guns—for starving, “rioting” children!