Show MOUNTED POLICE OF CANADA have made asplend d record in the northwest territory readiness for duty in any form has made the royal northwest mounted police what they are the trusted guardians of life and property in west era canada says the world today to day their field is from the united states bo andary to the arctic coast and in this vast a thousand miles from south to north scarlet coat ed men keep peace and order through any part of it prairie wilderness or wooda a defenseless woman may go alone and have no fear to make thus easy the traveler s way meant ears of vigilant policing and even of fighting those were stirring times when mounted police service had zest and glor today to day there is less glory and more hard work for as the coun try is setting farther north the police too are moving up and widening their beats smugglers on the border thieves on the ranches criminals in the settlements alres in the forests to guard against these and to depre sent the law in a land that would aas ily be lawless are their duties to day and to these have low been added the carriage of the malls in the extreme north and the protection of the whale fisheries on the arctic coast |