Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-08

adopting q. tax system to sustain the
existence of her game?
We have long made these non-resi
dents partners with us in the pleasure
and sport derived from this game. Is
it unjust to broaden that partnership
to the extent that they shall be joint
ly liable with us in maintaining them
Can you imagine a true sportsman
Il genuine lover of the exciting chase,
of the woods, and the mountains, the
streams, and the lakes forSaking for
ever his old trails and bidding final
adieu to his long beloved haunts, SIM
ply because the State of Maine has
said 20 him by Legislative action that
she has arrived at g climax in her pro-
lection of game, and must in order to
save it and make hunting possible dur
ing all the fullnesS of time ask him to
assist the taxpayers of Maine in pre-
serving this game by paying the @paltry
sum of ten or fifteen or even twenty
five dollars which money shall be used
solely for the purpose of saving to him
and his ilk for all time these sources
of so much pleasure and sport in the
past.
If there are any such I am fast COM
ing to the conclusion that their alb
serce from the Maine woods is Just
now of more importance to US than
their presence.
Mr.. President, it is my settled con-
viction that we are approaching a
juncture in these affairs of great con-
sequence; that the time is ripe for
radical changes in our system which
will mark an epoch in the history of
game protection in Maine.
This association should meet the new
pre- blems which face them in spirit
of tolerance, firmness and justice, but
with the courage and determination to
do that which may appear wisest and
best for all concerned, that which will
be for the greatest good of the great
est number
Mr.. Sprague was followed by other
speakers Miss Cornelia I. Crosby. Fly
Rod" who said that she believed the
more money for the protection of game
and the propagation of fish than it is
now doing. Give tEe commissioners $50
them spend it in the i Interest Of the great
industry which brings millions of dollars
into Maine every year. If it We're not for
the attractions offered and the hunters in
our lakes and rivers and forests the State
would not be what it is getting to be
more and more every year, the play
ground of America, the favorite resort Of
sportsmen from nearly every state in the
Union. The present financial condition
of the State warrants the belief that If
the friends of the fish and game interests
present the proper arguments to the new
Legislature. wise ana judicious legislation
will be enacted and Il liberal policy VII.
be adopted in the matter of furnishing
sufficient funds to adequately protect our
big game and at the same time increase
10 afficipnpU of fish hrppHinv pSt n
lishmentS."
Miss Crosby spoke a good word for the
guides and believed the registration law
had done much to improve the personnel
of the fraternity.
Hon E. E. Ring of the fish and game
commission. also spoke briefly, and so dli
Col. f. c. Harrington. Hon. VIM. EnSei
mayor of Bangor, A. NJ. Goddard, Esq,
of Augusta, and others.
At the earnest solicitation of the aSso-
citation. Maj. Holman +. Day of Auburn,
the well-known writer prepared poem
for the occasion. Maj. Day was unable
to be present but he sent the poem with
the request that it be read by Thos. f.
Murphy of Augusta. The following is the
poem:
If We Had Gone Fishin' With Isaak.
(By Holman F. Day)
Oh. bait your hook and find a brook
Where the water runs like tunket,
Then catch a trout and fam it out
And in your basket PUNK it,
From angle Worm Lyrics" by Leroy
T. Carleton.
Had we moderns gone fishing with Isaalk
I'm referring to Walton, you know,
Ii we had gone bobbing with Isaak in the
placid old days long ago,
Had we SET by his side with our ques-
tons while we slshed at the breast Of
the brook,
Wed have wormed some additional know
ledge that alas, we don't find in his
book
Now Isaak is sound in his logic. his phil
osophys deep and it's broad,
His talks upon morals and ethics we all
of us truly applaud,
His pointers on Dream. carp and salmon
no modern informant can beat,
But he lacks a few nuggets of learning
to make his famed Angler Com
pleat."
He gives us a soace for worry, for cark
and for care and for fret,
He shows us benignitys pathway, con-
Quoting away from regret.
| But the many lamentable dangers of an
up-to-date fisherman'S lot
Old Isaak in some way or other appears
to have wholly forgot.
And l trust that this body assembled.
the good and effective and wise,
VIII forthwith appoint some committees
| to take Isaak's book and revise.
| For instance, there's nothing in Walton
to settle the natural doubt
| OF an angler lost northwest of Nowhere,
feet wet and the rum given out.
Not mine is the province to name him.
the man for this delicate task,
| [ Will trust TO your careful discretion as
to whom you may finally ask,
But of all the available timber you may
find on the candidates shelf,
| | hope you will nominate some one who
has been in that trouble himself
| | will quote from a beautiful ballad that
is warbled by Uncle Bill Strout,
| And twill show you the woe l refer to;
It's named When the Rum Has Civ
Aout.'
| ''Oh, honey-bunch of burdock an the fun
| gone up the sDaout,
| An double dose O. trouble when the
rum giv's aout.
l Oh, we're fifty miles from nowhere and
forty miles from land
| With the 'Skeeters yoopin' round us till
| they sound like Susy's band.
! They amt afraid o pisen and they bites
| us where they likes,
| They're spry as fork-ed lightning an
they hain't there when we strikes,
/ But when We has your whiskey an they
bites we, they fall dead,
Or they bites an gifts a jag on, then We
knock 'em in the head.
/ Oh, it's easy fightin' 'skeeters when your
arm is good an staout,
But they'll gnaw We into shoe-strings II
the rum giv's aout.
Ti-deedle-di, there haint no doubt.