The Lamar register., 1910-04-20

cOpNRGHT BY PEARSON
PUB. &C


main. and with them and of them are ordered
and orderly living
II the story Of how this came about is the story
Of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police.
The mounted police. Don't you remember
when you little chap low you looked after
the uniformed man on the glossy bay he
tered through the park. and how you had
dearer dream OF glory than to be like him? Even
now, don't you feel the old, boyish thrill at the
sight Of blue-coated. erect figure In the saddle
Mt crowded city crossing? If you do not. you
grown up"-saddest of labels-and will
journey to the Never.Never- Never Land
But for US "incurabIe children" the sight Of
the mounted policeman still catches at those old
heart strings
And II all this for the bue-coated. brass-but
toned horseman OF the parks and boulevards.
what of that other horseman the one who rides
alone with the stretch of endless praries for his
beat with the criminal who holds life at less
than naught. his quarry? Surely even your dulled
Imagination. poor. tobe-ptied grown-ups.
catch fire family from the CLEAN OF his scarlet
coat
Recruited chiefly from the younger sons OF we'll
toslo. and even titled. English families the North
west Mounted Police has long been an institu
tion where an English university man can work
OF the bubbling froth OF drop OF gypsy blood
before settling down head OF a county family
und warden OF his church. In the main colec
ton Of young men for whom the Red Gods call
too wildly. men with daredevil dash In their
makeup. who leave England because they i'm
pecunious. or because of row with their fami
Hes. for sheer love OF adventure. Come with
INC TO Regina Edmonton and you will hear
stories OF men who gave the recruiting oficer the
name OF plain John Smith with something OF a
cynical smile-and It was bad form for the re-
cruiting onicer to notice this smile-men who had
n habit OF reaching for a monocie that wasn't
there. Of talking with the correct London pronun
citation, and thrashing the fellow-trooper who
called attention to this fact
And any story you heard OF the her-pre
E..II ak tlaaea n1er< ,IIxo
600-mIe beat along the Arctic circle be out
matched the written records OF the force. and
fn the memory OF any Officer. Fifteen years ago
Englishmen Of Kipng's gentleman ranker" type
made up fully huIf OF the force and the other half
composed OF wild Irlshmen with all their
country love OF fight old plainsmen and Indian
fighters the silent. steady eyed. hard-riding men
who gather on the frontier where the savage falls
away before the ragged vanguard OF civilization.
And they have done their work SO well that they
fast driving away their own excuse for he
Ing. The present northwest is more what II
In 1874 than busy Winnipeg OF to-day Is the
old Fort Garry to which the first troop OF the
mounted" came 40 years ago. They have made
western Canada what Il is out OF the lawless ter
ritory"-an almost preposterous undertaking
opcquarter OF the number OF policemen In New
York to govern a country 100000 square miles
larger than the United States!
In short the mounted police have brought
British law into western Canada. and firmly es-
tabiished It The homesteader can go into any
OF the provinces and take out his claim. secure In
the assurance that he can work his land undis-
turbed and harvest his crop uninjured- The home
steader Is doing 1t by thousands. and the Last
West Is vanishing The frontier-the last from
tier of America-is being prosaically plowed by
the practical man in blue overalls. who doesn't
carry even a hunting knife. except to cut on his
chew OF Granger Twist
The Indian has been reduced to his lowest
terms When men of the United States were
building the Union Pacific across the plains they
were Obliged to employ Uncle Sans troops to
guard the builders. II the ghosts of the dead who
died violently In that first fve-years' fight for the
west were to line up along the right OF way there
would be almost enough OF them to mark the
miles.
On 3o-mile ride from the North Saskatche-
wan last fall met dozens of teams driven almost
wholly by Indians and half-breeds. They were
hauling the long logs that were to be driven
twenty to thirty feet into the sands OF the Sas-
katchewan TO carry the false work OF the Grand
Trunk Pacifics stee. bridge.
What a contrast. Instead of hinderng. as was
once the case the northern Indians are helping to
build the railroad. In the construction OF the
new government Unconstitutional line. the In
dams are employed wherever they can be used.
for the road is being rushed with all possible
speed consistent with good work. The Indians
are useful also. to the pathfinders as guides:
they know the forests OF new Canada; they know
the mountain Businesses of the Peace river. and
they know all the crooks and canyons OF the
Coast Range In short, the red man OF to-day is
the trusted guide and faithful servant of the path
finder He hunts for the white man still. but quite
differently from the way he used to hunt for the
pioneers OF old.
Thanks to the Royal Northwest Mounted Po-
lice civilizations house is In order. To-day the
be long before the mounted will be a