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probably do the whole work, in connection with local wardens. 

 This may seem utterly ridiculous as a police force to patrol ten 

 Englands and three thousand miles of sea. But look at what the 

 Royal North-West Mounted Police have done over vast areas 

 with a handful of men and what has been effected in Maine, New 

 Brunswick and Ontario. Once the public understands the 

 question and the governments mean business, the way of the 

 transgressor will be so hard — between the wardens, zoologists 

 and all the preventive machinery of modern administration — 

 that it will no longer pay him to walk in it. Special precautions 

 must be taken against that vilest of all inventions of diabolical 

 ingenuity — the Maxim " silencer." No argument is needed to 

 prove that silent firearms could not suit crime better if the}'" were 

 made expressly for it. The mere possession of an}' kind of 

 "silencer" should constitute a most serious criminal offence. 

 The right kind of warden will be forthcoming when he is really 

 wanted and is properly backed up. I need not describe the 

 wrong kind. We all know him, only too well. 



Benefits 



First, it cannot be denied that the constant breaking of the 

 present law makes for bad citizenship and that the observance 

 of law will make for good. Next, though it is often said that 

 what Canada needs most is development and not conservation, 

 I think no one will deny that conservation is the best and most 

 certainly productive form of development in the case before us. 

 Then I think we have here a really unique opportunity of 

 effecting a reform that will unite and not divide all the 

 legitimate interests concerned. What could appear to have less 

 in common than electricity and sanctuaries ? Yet electricity in 

 Labrador requires water-power, which requires a steady flow, 

 which requires a head-water forest, which in its turn is admirably 

 fit to shelter wild life. Except for those who would selfishly 

 and shortsightedly take all this wealth of wild life out of the 

 world altogether, in one grasping generation, there is nobody 

 who will not be the better for the change. I have talked with 

 interested parties of every different kind and always found them 

 agree that conservation is the only thing to do — provided, as 

 they invariably add, that it is done " straight " and " the same 

 for all." 



