The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1910-04-29


main. and with them and Of them are ordered
and orderly living
II the story Of how this came about il the story
Of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police.
The mounted poiicei Don't you remember
when you Wcro n little chap how you looked after
the Uniformed man on the glossy bay as he can
tered through the park. and how you had no
denror dream Of glory than TO he like himr Even
now, don't you feel the old hOylHh THRU ~ IN"
sight Of n buc-coated. erect figure In the saddle
at a crowded city crosslng7 II you do not, you
arc a grown up"-snddcst ~ labols-and will
journey no more To the Never Never Never Land
But for us "lncurnblc children" the sight Of
the mounted policeman Htill catches at those old
hoartstringa
And II all this Tor the huc.coated, brasSbut
toned horscmRn of the parks and boulcyards
what Of that other horscman. the one who rides
alone with the stretch Of endless pruircs Tor his
beat. with the criminal who holds n life at less
than naughL bis quarry Surely even your duiled
imagination poor to-ho.pltied groWnups. can
catch nro family from the CLEAN of his scarlet
coat
Recruited chiefly from the Younger sons Of we'll
to do and even titled. English families, the North
west Mounted Police has Tong been an nsiiui
ton where an English university man can work
on the bubbnR troth Of drop Of gypsy blood
before settling down ~ head NJ county family
and warden Of bis church. H. the main collec
ton Of young men for whom the Rcd Gods eau
too wildly. men with n daredevil dash In thoit
mnko.up who leave England because they are TN
pecunious or because Of n row with their FAINT
Hes or for sheer love of adventure Come with
me TO Regina or Edmonton and YOU viii hear
stories of men who gave the recruiting oulcor the
name OF plain John Smith with something OF n
cynical smic-and n was had form for the re-
crultng ofncer to notice this smie-men who had
u habit of reaching Tor monoclc that wasn't
there. OF talking with tho correct London pronnn
citation and thrashlng the followtrooper who
called attention To this fact
And any story yuu ever hcnrd ~ the hoir'pre
sumptiyc 10 an English marqulsatc patroling u
6OOmlle beat along the Arctic circle can be out
matched on the written records " the force. ana
In the memory Of any officer Fifteen years ago
Englighmcn Of Kiplings gentleman rnnker type
made up fully half ot the force, and the other hall
was composed NJ Wild freshmen with all their
countrys love 0f n nght, old pRinsmcn and Indian
fighters the silent. steady eyed. hnrdrding men
who gather on the frontier where the savage inllr
away before the ragged vanguard ot CIVILIZATION
Aud they have done their work No well that they
are fast driving away their own excuse for be
Ing The present northwest IL no more what II
was In 1874 than busy Winnipeg NJ today " th'
old Fort Garry to which the FIRST troop OF the
mounted" came 40 years ago They have made
western Canada what II II out NJ the lnwlcss ter
ritory"-an almost prcpostcrous undertaking
onc.quarlcr Of the number Of policemen In New
York 10 govern n country 100000 square milri
larger than the United Satcs'
In short the mounted police have branSh
Uritlsh law into Western Canada. aud nrmy os
tabiIshed Il rhe humcstcndcr can 80 into an
of the proyInces and take out his clnim. secure II
the assurance that he can work his land undi-
turbed and harvest his crop unlniured the nome
stcadcr IL doing It by thousands and the Las
west Ia vanishing The fronter--ihe last iro'
tier OF Am,rcn--is being prOsaicnlly plowed b
tho prnrtlcaI man In blue oyerus. who doesn
carry even a hunting knife, except to cut on hi
chew nt Granger Twist
Tho Indian has pocn reduced to his loves
terms when men of the United states wer
building the Union Pacific across the plains, the
were Obliged 10 employ Uncle Sans troops
guard the builders n the ghosts OF the d"od "h
died violently In that FIRST nycyonrs' fight Tor III
west were to line mp along the right OF way ther
would be almost enough OF them To marx w
miles
ON n gomiIe ride from tho North saskatch
wan last fail / met dozens OF teams driven olmo
wholly by Indians aud hall.brocds They wei
hauling the Ions toys that we're TO he drNe
twenty 10 thirty feet INTO the sands Of the sa
katchCwan to carry the iNlSc Work OF tue 'IhU
Trunk puCnC'E steel bridge
What contrast instead OF hlndcring az wr
eco the ease the northern Indians are helping
tllld the railroad In the construction ol NJ
new government tr0uscouunentm line the
dams are employed wherever they can bo use
for the road Is being rushed with AN po'slh
speed consistent with good work The lndlol
are useful also. 10 the pathhndcrs as guid"
they know the forests Of new Canada; hoy hno
the mountain businesses of the Peace river ~
they know an the crooks aud canyons OF
Const Ruuro Iu short the red mas of lo day
th, trusted guide aud faithful. servant ot the pat
Under lie hunts ion the white man sill, but qui
differently from the way h" used To u"hl Tor u
plon,ers OF old
gcr .islI uions house Is In order Today
,o. before tue mounted viii be