The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-09-13
A SP0RTSMAN'S OPINION.
THE PLAN AND OBJEoTs OF THE
ASSOCIATION.
Nybere oppositIon Came From-The At
titude of Those Owning shooting
Privileges Etc.

EDITOR STAR: Will you kindly give
space to the following Noticing
several articles in the local news
papers on the subject of one w. NJ.
Cunningham whose shooting license
has been refused renewal, the writer
deems it proper as member of the
sporting fraternity, and of the Hawa-
iian Sportsmans Association, that the
subject should be stated as it is, with
regard to absolute facts.
The question at issue is simple, and
involves plain, ordinary, law-abiding
condu t, on the part of every one, or
the a, verse. Some fifteen months or
more % 20, a number of respectable and
influential citizens issued a call to all
local p,rties interested in hunting and
sportiEg matters in general, to meet at
the Chamber of Commerce in this city,
for the purpose of forming sports
mans association. The call was very
generally attended, and resulted in the
formation of the above mentioned assoc
citation, the immediate object and aims
of which are:
To procure the strict enforcement of
the game laws;
To actively prosecute and bring to
punishment any and all persons found
hunting during the "closed season" and
DESTROYING game birds with y ung.
To see that all persons using firearms,
for sporting purposes, paid the Govern
ment for license.
To import, from time to time, game
birds from other countries Tor acclimltl-
cation here.
And to promote generally spirit OF
fraternity and respect Tor the rights ana
privileges of all its members.
Nov strange as it may appear, the
association, whose objects are manifestly
decent, proper and necessary to every
right-thinking man in any community,
met with nothing but opposition from
the start, from an element who believed
that no landowner had the right to sell
to any one the right to shoot the land,
to their exclusion, advocating the prin.
ciple that any one should shoot where
and when he pleased and destroy all the
game possible.
Now Mr. Editor, any man who has
any knowledge of shooting matters IL
any country knows that 1t requires
nice regard for rights and feelings OF al
parties interested in order to work har'
mOnlOuSly, anu lO Ciup Va opoi ~
other organization, will admit to fellow
shin persons of Objectionable character
bad manners, and possibly even worse
record. As in every walk In lie, mel
must render themselves acceptable t.
one another before fraternal spirit car
be developed. Aggressive conduct, o.
swagger, will not deter other men iron
maintaining their opinions, preference
and rights. As far as the gentlemen o
II. S. A., and others controlling shoot
ing privileges which have been acquired
regularly by purchase, are concerned
it IS a matter of indifference whethe
Mr.. Cuningbam's, or any other man
license, be cancelled or not. They en-
dorsed the Minister'S action in the mat
ter, as they will in all cases where the.
have reliable information of any on
destroying game with young, or tres
passing on the rights of others. FINALLY
the writer begs to inform you that tn
Hawaiian Sportsman. $ Association Is
live concern; 1t is working in the in
terest of, and investing its funds fol-
the benefit CT all locally concerned, an
does not propose to sit tamely by an
allow any law breakers to extermlnat
the already scarce game birds of thl
island, even though aided and abette
by cheap whisky editorials.
SPORTSMAN.