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

man from another state who has been
in Maine this year and spent three
weeks hiring all this time Il guide,
cndeavorinS to set a moose, wrote me,
that he had been in the woods Il days
with his guide and got no moose,
could find no moose, but that the next
day after he left, this same guide shot
Il moose on the very territory he had
been hunting on, and that his guide. no
,;oubt could have shown it to him had
ne wished 10, but preferred TO keep it
for himself.
NOW how well founded this COM
plaint was, l do not know, but that
guido next year Will very likely be
complaining about people not coming
To patroliiZ" him. ana charge it up to
the law, when his oWn scitishncss ANA
unfair treatment Of his sport will be
the real cause.
a camp owner wrote me he had had
no business this year. | was glad to
hcHr that this particular camp pro-
prictor had not mad his usual kind OF
sp'.rts-mcn who never hunt, but come
and buy their game. / would say to
guides and sporting camp proprietor,.
liz yourselves for YOUR duticS,-C!o the
square thing by your sports,-and You
viii always have all that the game can
! stand.
Our best guides always have engage
! mcnts, OR best camps are always
! full: some of the best | know Of have
| had more than ever before this year---
! the cheap and the indifferent will be
! forced to the wall
! Just why some sporting papers and
! some men. assHil the State OF Maine for
/ having u nonresident hunters license
I law, and have no word of ccnsure for
al the other states and all the other
countries that have this same law. | am
Il loss 10 understand. | have never
seen or heard any explanation, or at
tempted explanation of their conduct
n this respect.
If it is wrong for Maine to have a
NONRESIDENT hunters license law, is it
not equally wrong for New Hampshire.
New York and twrnty-sevcn other
states to have it? Is it not equally
wrong for our ncishhors the Canadian
Provnccs--to have ii? l. ii not equal
~ wrong for all the states and all the
countries that have any game To have
t? And get YOU hear 70 word of con-
i'Ii BttdtSt W any tI IIlt'Sf'
states and countries have this law. yet
they have. with the exception of New
!iamr. hire. Il much more stringent and
higher priced Inv than Maine, and tn"
license law IL New Hampshire is SO To
hunt deer III a few counties only. Most
of thae, states require Il license to
hGnt i.i!,.s. ..ai many o them TO fish.
TC lis" he words of ::notner. "Con-
siStcnoy. thou art Il jewel" / have not
Is :Hucn PATIENCE, probably, as | ought
90 have with those who cry out against
our liens" lHW. Hnl yet fail-ahsouta
" fail-to point out or suggest huW
otherwise our g;in!c can be I,rotertc1
There seems to be q growing scnti-
r"nt among tn" guides ana sportsmon
chat there ought to he Il close season
mn un"n Mos" for 4 series Of years
W. hon" t. avoid til" necessity for this
| ~ tn greatly irrrrISrl protection We
''lIii i" ;lbl % give the moose.
Mr.. President and Gcntlrmcn:
Is il possible tilt YOU have been
wrong al these ycars,-have you been
wrong in advocating these measures;
hay" al the states ana Ill tn" coun-
tries THAT hay" amy ganc-and they all
lave this Inv been wrong: has pub
Il" opinion gone entirely astray on this
subject. and have your critics been
right?
Who are tn" Obstinate iurymrn-thc
iHV"n who have ,dTUc'tcI these
'""as'Ircs. who believe in them, or the
one who has opposed them al?
Willy, | remember that the summer
2ftcr the passage of tho Inv shortening
the open season for moose from three
months to six weeks, that an universal
vail went up from camp proprietors,
guides and correspondents that every
thing would be ruined. Everybody
Was going to Canada to hunt.-the air
WIS perfectly blue with complaints
and expressed rage.
The Kinco Echo, the Maine Sports
n,tn and many others prophcsicd dire
dliaSt"r-the Jcrcmiahs got their Wol k
in an right
\ i:ut Who in the Stat" of Main" would
ROW advotnt" going hncil to tie old
thr"" months open season on moose?
Why. r"nlrmb"r ihnt al the n:nr-
'i"tincn in Bangor boyrott"d would
retail no deer for one whole hnntir;,
season. h".;iue" III" sale Of Particles
the same paper. ~" same writer's. and
! by nearly the same Eicn that nov, try
| t" have cV"ryhudy go to canada to
hunt in order to brcrl: down the nom
| resident hunters license law.
| Hut how charged. Can anybody be
/ found now to "lvorat" the going back
90 the old ConItions
Why. NJ IT,, last Legislature I caused
! :" he put in the original draft of this
/ !lW " Cl1us" that all nom residents who
| purchased Il license should have Il right
! 10 tak" home with him not exceeding
/ three braces of partridge or woodcock,
th.it he himself had personally shot, ar
%lIinr that no more would be Killed, but
instead of being eaten in camp would
| i" saved to take home. and it would be
granting no more than we can afford,
or no more than WIS right also that u
resident might sell 10 cartridges in ore
year 10 . lic"nScti marketInan.
How did our friend Of the Maine
| Snortsnen, and the others. who in sea-
son and out of season condemned this
law prohibiting the sale of partridge,
| take TO this proposition? They set up
4 universal condemnation Of it and
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