Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-02-13
STATE HOUSE,
Canadian Game Official Favors
License for. Hunters.
Louisiana Purchase Exposition Com
missioners to Dine in Boston.
Fourteen Applicants Before Pharmacy
Board, Yesterday.

Edwin Tinsley. secretary and chief
warden of the game commission of On
tario, Canada, has written a letter to
Chairman Carleton of Names fish and
game commission, in which he declares
IstrOngly in favor of a license for nom
residents to shoot game in any state
or province. He says:
why should state or province tax
its residents for the purpose of supply
ing game and sport for the benefit of
outsiders? The protection Of fish and
game should be self-sustaining. When
this l., accomplished more has been
done to perpetuate the fish and game
of our respective countries than could
possibly be attained in any other way.
BY doing this all cause for objection
is removed from those not interested
to any extent in the taking of game
and fish.
Unless the license system for kill
ing and selling game becomes general
only the wealthy men in the United
States and the Dominion will, in the
near future, have the privilege and
pleasure of killing game. In fact, I'M
less those charged with the protection
OF fish and game are not supplied with
| the necessary means, other than by
general taxation, game, as in older
countries. will be for the exclusive use
of the classes able to purchase and
stock preserves.
/ Had the federal government i'm
posed a license fee for killing buffalo
| they would not have been exterminated
to satisfy the unreasoning greed of hui
man wolves, and countless herds of
these animals would still be roaming
the prairies. Game and fish are the
| assets of the State, and with prudent
administration will be sources of reve-
Eue after the forests have been denuded
of saleable timber and the rocks of
the minerals
At the recent meeting of the North
American Fish and Game Protective
Association held in Burlington, VT,
Mr.. Tinsley made the following speech,
which attracted considerable attention:
THE nonresident license question is
being threshed out with considerable
warmth and ability. We may take it
for granted that the main object of
fish and game protection is to perpetu-
ate and increase the supply of both, in
the interest Of the public at large This
can only be accomplished by meeting
the constantly increasing number of
hunters. and improved destructive IA
cilities. by corresponding restrictive
methods.
1.-The question then for consideration,
how can this be most effectively ac-
complished? The license system in old
and densely populated countries has
been the most effective factor in keep
ing up the supply of game. 1t is an ac-
cepted fact that game is the property
Of the state or province. Such being
the case it is the bOunden duty of the
respective Legislatures to enact and
enforce laws regarding these natural
and valuable products of their respec-
tive countries.I "fG
If our lawmakers have the power to
say how and when game is to be killed,
they should certainly have the power
to say how much those doing the kill
ing should pay for the privilege. 1t is
a poor excuse for man to say because
he pays his railway fare and for the
food he consumes he should be allowed
to go into/a neighboring state or coun-
try and kill and take away with him
game. without contributing to the cost
of breeding and protecting such game
for him. In the case of transportation
and food he receives value for the
money spent. True sportsmen will not
object to paying a reasonable license
fee, when by so doing the prospect of
having good sport is much enhanced.
THE time is not far distant when it
will be imperative to collect a general
/ license fee from both resident and nom
resident sportsmen, in the interests of
, our respective countries"
| Hon. David r. Francis. president of
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Co.,
has requested Governor Hill to send
representatives of Maine to dinner at
the Algonquin Club, Boston, Thursday,
Feb. q. at which time officials of the
Exposition will he present and describe
J plans and projects likely to be of inter-
est to all. The Governor has requested
the Maine members of the Exposition
Commission, Messrs. Goodall, Lane,
Cram, Briggs and Burrill. to attend,
and it is expected that nearly all of the
gentlemen named will be able to do so.
! Pharmacy Commissioners Percy L.
Lord of Calais, and Joseph F. Young of
Augusta, had a class of IA applicants,
yesterday. at the Capitol, to be exam
ined as to their qualifications to be reg
istered as druggists or qualified assist
ants. g.
A communication has been received
at the executive department from Hon.
John Hay, secretary of state, which
states that the deputy commissioner Of
fisheries for the province of Ontario de-
sires to ascertain the law of Maine re-
garding the limit of territory on the
seashore The Massachusetts law pro-
vides that the territorial limits Of the
commonwealth extend one marine
league from it's seashore at low water
mark, and Names is the same
Hon. S. ]. Chadbourne. deputy secre-
tary of State. attended the Lincoln BAN
quet in Portland, last evening. ~
The following are recent visitors to
the fish and game museums Mrs. Ed
Weston. Adelaide w. Mower, Fred F.
|, Hall. II. w. Page. Mr.. and Mrs. Ma
thaniel Noyes, Charlie Flynt, Annie
Fox. Harry Ellis. Clara Dill. c. A.
White. Alice Stilkey. Flora Moulton,
Elise Ryan, Gladys Turner, Edward