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Men of good bodily powers, and in the prime of life, and especially men able to do the rough work of frontier farmers, could not be hired to fight Indians in unknown forests for two dollars a month.
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Roosevelt points out the difficulty in recruiting capable men for military service due to inadequate compensation.
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