The Boone and Crockett Club 



The Canadian government in the Yukon Terri- 

 tory has good laws, which have popular support. 

 This is largely because they have an efficient force 

 of officers, the Northwest Mounted Police, and 

 residents of Canada recognize the fact that when 

 these policemen set out to arrest a man they do not 

 stop until they have got him. In Alaska the game 

 laws are supposed to be enforced by the United 

 States Marshals, most of whom feel no interest 

 whatever in the game laws, and will not start out 

 to look for a man unless guaranteed expenses of 

 ten dollars a day. The Canadian government 

 endeavors to make it easy for its citizens to supply 

 themselves with meat, but when the killing reaches 

 undue proportions, or the game leaves a certain 

 district where it has been abundant, hunting in that 

 district is stopped for a time. Their laws give 

 power to the police to do many things, but they 

 also hold the police strictly accountable for their 

 actions. In this way they get from them excellent 

 service. The United States Marshals, on the other 

 hand, are not held to strict responsibility, and exert 

 themselves only in situations where public opinion 

 insists that they do so. 



If Congress will set aside as a game refuge some 

 considerable tract of Alaska land where no mines 

 are known to exist, and in a territory suitable for 



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