Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-03-13
SOLDIERS TO GO.

SVAOACNS 1U UV Eneland's Imperial Troops Will Soon Leave Canada
 Her Own Defender.
 The British soldier is to leave Canada. and the Dominion is to depend on home military talent. On June of this year the royal troops are to depart.
 In 1871 all the imperial troops were withdrawn save those left to garrison the two naval bases of Esquimault and Hali- fax, and now Canadians are to fill these places; thus almost the last link in the chain which binds Canada dependency to Great Britain has been severed, and the military destiny of Canada will henceforth be in her own hands"
 Esquimault, situated in British Co., lumbia, on the Pacific coast, is a very important coaling station, It is garri- soned by imperial and Canadian troops. The Dominion pays the expensetOf the Canadian soidiery and half that of the imperial.
 England would rather keep her sol diery in Canada than remove them, but her terms were not considered fair by the Canadians. England desired Canada to take all the money burden of the i'm perial stations at Halifax and Esqui- mault, leaving administration and con- trol in the hands of the government of the mother country. This was the old disturbing condition of taxation without representation, and not at all pleasing to our independent neighbors across the border. It will cost them quite sum, own, something like one dollar head; but 1t is thought there will be small grumbling as the Expenditure will be made within her own territory, for their own protection, and under their own control" The military docks, works and Notifications, paid for by the Brit ish taxpayer, will be handed over to the Dominion.
 There was an unsuccessful rebellion in Canada in 1887, the provinces reunited in 1S40, and the confederation was formed in 1867. Since the confederation the Canadian militia has been under the immediate command of major general of the British army. For military pur- poses the Dominion is divided into 12 districts with district officer command | ing and brigade staff in charge of each | The permanent militia numbers about 1000 men, the active nearly 10000. All adult males between IS and 60 (with cer- tain exceptions) that are not serving in the active militia form the reserve mili- | tia.
 It was when the Fenian invasion be- gan to spread along the Canadian iron tier. in 1866, men began drilling and arming in the smaller towns of northern Ontario, and in the large centers were formed battalions and thence sent to threatened points on the western iron tier When the Fenian excitement sub sided and the men returned to their homes, the military organizations were not allowed to die out In the rebellion of 1885. the Thirty-second saw service as did also the Huron men. The excite ment of that rebellion called into ex- istence the Ninety-slxth battalion. AL gonna rifles, their headquarters at Port Arthur at the head of lake navigation; this being the sole military organization in the wide district of Algoma. Lake Hu- ron 460 miles east of headquarters to Rat Portage, 300 miles to the west. The Algoma men are used to roughing it, to hardy outdoor life. and theirs is val uable frontier regiment.
 In speaking of Canada S soldiery, men, ton must be made of her Northwest mounted policemen; gallant scarlet clad horseman omnipresent throughout the length and breadth of that vast ter ritory From the fertile fields of Man. itoba to the towering of the Rockies and from the bleak, desolate plains of Mon tana to the far of lonely Slave lake, his scarlet jacket is known. feared and bonored. He 1t is who upholds the mai ssty of law and order. and sways the scepter of authority over tract of semi wilderness measured by tens of thou sands of square miles,"
 The Canadian government 30 years ago established a school cf scientific military instruction at Kingston, the Royal Military college. The institution is Canada's West Point The Canadian taxpayer pays largely for its main tainence, but each cadet pays fees aver aging about 1875 a year. It differs from West Point materially, and one notice able point of difference is that the grad uates are not all expected to adopt and immediately follow the profession of arms. NORMAN CUTTING. | The Benefactos.
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