Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-04-21

Jain, and with them and of them are ordered
t1d orderly living.
If the story of how this came about Is the story
~ the Royal Northwest Mounted Police.
n The mounted police Don't you remember
Iwhen you were little chap, how you looked after
the uniformed man the glossy bay as he
tered through the park and how you had no
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
at a crowded city crossing? If you do not. you
Il are a grown up"-saddest of abels-and will
journey more to the Observation-Disclosures Land
But for us 'incurable children" the sight Of
the mounted policeman still catches at those old
heartstrngs
n And If all this for the blue-coated, brass-but.
toned horseman of the parks and bouevards.
what of that other horseman the who rides
alone with the stretch of endless prairies for his
beat, with the criminsl Who holds life at less
than naught, his quarry. Surely even your dulled
imagination poor to-be-pitied grownups,
catch fire family from the CLEAN of his scarlet
coat.
Recruited chiefly from the younger of we'll
totdo, and even titled, English families the North
west Mounted Police has long been insttu-
ton where an English university man work
ph the bubbng froth OF drop of gypsy blood
before settling down head of county family
and warden of his church, in the main collec'
4 ton of young for whom the Red Gods call
too wildly, with a daredevil dash in their
makeup who leave England because they are i'm
pecunious, because of with their fami
lies, or for sheer love OF adventure. Come with
me to Regina Edmonton and you will hear
stories of men who gave the recruiting officer the
name of plain John Smith with something of a
cynical smile-and II bad form for the re-
cruiting officer to notice this smile-men who had
a habit of reaching for a monocle 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 ever heard of the heir-pre-
1Nwar
5OO-mile beat along the Arctic circle can be out
matched on the written records Of the force, and
ir the memory Of any officer. Fifteen years ago.
Englishmen of KiplIng's gentleman ranker" type
5nade up fully half of the force and the other half
Twas composed of wild Irishmen with all their
/country's love of fight, old plainsmen and Indian
4 fighters, the silent, steady-eyed hardriding men
who gather the frontier where the savage falls
away before the ragged vanguard OF civilization
And they have done their work so well that they
are fast driving away their own excuse for be-
ing The present northwest is no more what 1t
was in 1874 than busy Winnipeg of to-day is the
IN old Fort Garry to which the first troop of the
mounted" came 40 years ago. They have made
western Canada what 1t is out of the lawless ter
ritory"-an almost preposterous undertaking.
one-quarter 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-
tablished 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 it by thousands, and the Last
West Is vanishing The frontier-the last from
tier of Americans being prosaically plowed by
the practical man In blue overalls, who doesn't
carry even hunting knife, except to cut on MS
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
we're Obliged to employ Uncle Sans troops to
guard the builders. If the ghosts Of the dead who
oiled violently in that first iveyears' fight for the
West were to line up along the right of way there
would be almost enough of them to mark the
kniles.
ON sO.mIie ride from the North Saskatche-
Ivan 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 Pacifcs steel bridge.
What contrast! Instead of hindering as was
once the case, the northern Indians are helping to
build the railroad. In the construction of the
new government transcontinental 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 pathhnders 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
Coas. 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
lice civilizations house Is In order. To-day the
be long before the mounted VIII DO u