The evening times., 1897-06-28
SENATOR HOARS CLIENTS.
uis Petition in Behalf OF the song
Birds.

Birds.
The petition which was Instrumental in
getting the Massachusetts law prohibiting
the wearing OF song anc inseclivorous biEos
OF women g hats is SAID TO have been writ
ten by senator Roar. The petition reads
us follows:
To the Great and General Court OF the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts:
We. Tire song lirdS of Massachusetts and
their play:ellows, make this our humble
petition We know more about YOU than
you think we do. We know how good you
are. We have hoped about the ROOTS ana
looked in 1t your windows OF the houses you
have built for poor and sick aud hungry peO-
pie. and little lame and deaf and bllnG chil-
drcn. We have built our nests in the
trees and sung many a song as we flew
about the gardens ana parks you have made
20 beautiful for your children, especially
your poor childrea, b. play in. Every year
we nyA great way over the country, keep
ipc all the time where the sun is bright ana
warm. And we know that whenever you
do anything, the other people all over this
great land, between the seas and the great
lakes, find it out, ana pretty soon will try
to do the same. We know. We know.
YOU are. Some OF us, like some of you,
came across the great sea. But most OF
the birds like US have lived here a long
while and then birds like US welcomed
-ucr fathers when they came here many,
many years ago. Our fathers and mothers
have always done their best to please
your fathers and mothers.
Now we have a sad story to tell you.
ThoughtleSs or bad people are trying to
destroy us They Kill us because our
feathers are beautiful. Even pretty and
sweet girls, who we should think would
be our best friends, Kill our brothers
and children, so that they may wear our
plumage on their hats. Sometimes peo-
pie kill US far mere wantOnness. Cruel
boys destroy our nests and steal our
eggs and our young ones. People with
guns and snaics lie in wait 10 Kill us;
as If the place for a bird were not in the
SKY, alive. hut In a shop window ar in
glass case If this goes on much longer
all our song birds will bc gone Already
we are told in some other countries that
used to he fun of birds, they are now
almost gone Even the nightingales are
being killed in Italy.
Now we humhly pray that You VIII
stop all tins and will save us from this
sad fate You have already made a
law that no one shall Kill a harmless
song bird or destroy our nests or our
eggs Win you please make another one
that no one shall wear our feathers,
so that NO one shall XIII us TO get them:
We want them ourselves. Your pretty
girls are pretty enough without them
We are told that it is as easy FOR you
Ia do it as for hlackhird to whistle.
II YOU will. we know how to pay Won a
hundred times over. We will teach your
children TO keep themselves clean and
neat We VIII STOW them how To live tu-
gether in peace and love. and to agree as
we do IN our nests We will build pretty
houses which you will like to see. We
VIII play about your garden ana flower
bcdS--gurSelveS like flowers on wings
without any cost 10 you. We will destroy
the wicked insects and worms that spoil
YOUR cherries and currantS and plumS anh
apples aud roses. We VIII give YOU our
best songs and make the spring more heau-
tiful and the summer sweeter to you.
Every June morning when YOU 20 out into
the field, 0riole and hluehird and black
bird and boholink will fly after YOU and
make the day more delightful 10 you. And
when YOU 20 home tired after sundown
Yesper sparrow VIII tell you how CRATE ful
we are. When You sit down on your porch
after dark fifebird and hermit thrush aud
wood thrush VIII sing to yuu: and even
whip-poor-wl viii cheer you up 4 little
We know where we are safe In little
while all the birds will come TO live in
Massachusetts again, and everybody who
loves music will like TO make IA sumner
home with you.
The SiEners are.
Brown ThraSher, Robert O'Linculn, Her
NIT Thrush, Vesper Sparrow, Robin Red
Breast Song Sparrow, Scarlet Tanager,
Summer Red Bird. Blue Heron, Humming
Bird, yellow Bird, WhippoOr-will, Water
WaG-tan, Woodpecker, Pigeon Woodpecker,
Indigo Bird. Yellow Throat, Wilson's
Thrush. Chickadee, King Bird, swallow,
Cedar Bird. Cow Bird, Martin, Vccry,
Vireo. OrioIe, Black Bird, Fife Bird, WneB,
Linnct. Pee Wee, Phoebe, Yoke Bird, Lark,
Sandpiper and Chewink.