The Independent . A SAMPLi: KITTheres forty pounds of indispensable luprpratre here: blanket, shelter tent, tent pegs,mess tins, wire cutter, bayonet, knife and fork, canteen, cup, shirts, socks, shoes,first aid box, poncho, belt, bacon tin, condiment can, and pick-mattock. Can you identify them? in a hundred and onelesser clashes with rev-olutionists in the blackrepublics will come tomind. The Marines arethe constables of thenew world; they are,in fact, a near approx-imation to the ideal ofa World Police distinguished ex-President once definedthe Corps as the load-ed end of his BigSti
The Independent . A SAMPLi: KITTheres forty pounds of indispensable luprpratre here: blanket, shelter tent, tent pegs,mess tins, wire cutter, bayonet, knife and fork, canteen, cup, shirts, socks, shoes,first aid box, poncho, belt, bacon tin, condiment can, and pick-mattock. Can you identify them? in a hundred and onelesser clashes with rev-olutionists in the blackrepublics will come tomind. The Marines arethe constables of thenew world; they are,in fact, a near approx-imation to the ideal ofa World Police distinguished ex-President once definedthe Corps as the load-ed end of his BigStick. How high ourMarines stand in inter-national esteem may bejudged by the remarksof a colonel in the Brit-ish Army, recentlyquoted in Girards col-umn in the Philadel-phia Public-Ledger: 371. THERE REALLY ARE HORSE MARINES And there are air marines and trench marines and several other sorts of marines, too. This outpost getting down to business in Mexico includes shelter tents and cavalry and sand-bag defense, and a wig-wag station on the hill The best equipt, organized, and mostefficient body of its size in the worldis the United States Marine Corps; thesecond best is the Northwest CanadianPolice, and the third the PennsylvaniaState Constabulary. Of the organizations just named theMarine Corps is by far the Northwest Police can muster onlya few regiments; the PennsylvaniaState Constabulary numbers only this writing the Marine Corps is en-listed to 21,864 and probably by thetime this article sees print will berecruited to over 22,000, which is 4000more than the present authorizedstrength. Congress is about to increasethe Corps to 30,000, which will pre-serve the lawful balance of numbers—five to one—between Uncle Samsbluejackets and his soldiers of t
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