Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-01-06

be taxed to protect big game, but that
those who hunt it should pay nothing,
, for if compelled to there will not be 50
, many come To hunt and kill it,thcy say.
! But, Mr.. President, much Of this OPP
position comes from those who have
opposed and will oppos" anything you
! do, anything the Commissioners do, no
matter what it is.
| Now. Mr. President, as between this
class and those who advocate the re-
duty leads You. ard | feel sure that
your organization will 80 forward. rot
backward for whatsoever puttcth his
hand to the pillow ana lookcth backward
/ is no. fit for the Kingdom Of Heaven"
| the Coed Book declares.
| Ii is passing strange that after any
! proposed game law has been fully dis
! cu.SCd H.t oVc;. the state has been en-
acted into law by 4 unanimous vote Of
the Legislature. that anyone processing;
70 be interested in fish ana game mat
tors, ana especially anyone who gets
his livelihood out Of these interests.
should insist. in season ana out of sea-
son. in print and verbally, before the
| law has even been tried. that it was
all wrong and undertake. in every way
possible. to break it down. And yet
this IS III" @pectacl" we have witnessed
since this laM was enacted. Processing
! to he Il friend and nasquerading as an
| enemy. They never cease ringing the
| changes on the allcSation-and it is Il
mere allegation this law has kept
hunters out of The state in large NUM-
bcrs.
Assuming it to he true that there
| WAS. last year, AN apprcciablc falling
| off ill tn" number who came here to
| huni--:l:id that is their only complaint
does il follow that this law caused
| it? Hy no means There were other
causes fully sufficient to account for it.
| can anyone tell how many the prcNa-
lcnrc Of SMALLPOX III all Northern
| Main" kept away: That it did some
| baNc personal Knowledge. can any
one tell how many the report that our
woods and game had all been burned
! NJ Kept away? Ana Yet | am told il
did some. by reliable authority.
| Can anyone tell how many the
change IN the Law in New York last
Wintc! kept away: Yet know il did
SON" from many personal letters like
| III" following l received. This is the
letter:
! 'f'rooAlyn. Now York. Mr.. l.. Il.
carleton. | want t" address YOU ON il
matter | am sure will interest YOU; our
i'WS rrnhibf III" killing Of deer after
! NOV. 18th. and prohibits; the possession
alter the 10Th. of November. no matter
| where or how yo,I killed or got it
ha'! made my arrangements to hunt in
! Main" this year from Nov sd but had
| my attention called to this law of oars.
! had seen fourteen different people
who were going about the same time.
Som" made ARRANGEMENTS to go earlier !
! after they fOu!.d this out while others
; We're deprived OF their trip entirely"
and he asks ne to cooperate with him
| in getting the New York law changed.
i can anyone tel how many the imam
! cial situation-thc tremendous shrink
| ir!G Of valucS-kcnt away. ana vet
! have personal knowledge il did some. !
! ana vet or wise critics are cock sure
/ that whatever falling off there WA
| WAS due entirely to this law.
] have 10 doubt The law kcrt some |
away, and ! am Very glad Of il. A
certain class we don't want hal got |
ac' GstTnnd - coming. it Kept them |
! away aItd am glad If it. ana hop. it
F.; viii keep them away in til" future
| If the fee is too high. that can b.
easily rcmcdiCd and other features
| added as experience shows their noe
, c.sity.
| i;ut did VIC have or did We not have
quite enough last year-quitc as many
rs our game will stand?
| Nj =. NJ. Handing of Bangor a
; C"riio;ar w"ll and favorably known
! throughout the State, and Secretary of
! the state Board OF Trade, wrote me at
the close Of the season as follows:
! ut can be suhstantiatcd hy official
| express lists now in my possession. and
/ which 7 have recently gone over v"rg
carefully that tn" total game ship
mcnts a%cr"C1t" 1919 u"cr 2i7 ND. ~.
and &c hears. Tho game shipments in
1898 exceed, in Moose. any previous
year, Whit" the deer shipments ar.
greater ny COZ than III 1901 ana / .26l
greater than in 1900. being pu.,;cd
only by he ph"nominal record Of TOO
When GlS more deer were transported
| through Bangor. The record for
100, having been 29l ana shipments.
durirg til" closing weeks Of 1909 have
been very materially curtaioI Iy the
exceptionally hard hunting for nearly 4
month"
Facts arc more eloquent than wcr Is:
facts are more eloquent than theories
and assertions.
Now. Mr.. President, there is one
, thina; more l want to say and then I
am done. I want to say to those who
profess to be friendly to the cause. to
those who have their money invcs, cd
! in sporting camps and summer hotels
or sporting papers, to those who earn
their d1ily bread wholly or partly
through this industry that it bchooves,
them To go s!o" in attacking our game |
laws. |
1t is claimed on the part of some that |
these game laws are To be entirely |
swept from the statutes in the noar
future. What would that mean? You |
know without being told there would |
not be Il moose left and hardly n deer
inside Of two years, ana the partridge
would be as scarce as the pigeon
There are those who are agitating