Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-01-06
FISH AND GAME.
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most game and YOU will find we have

most game and you will find we have
Ilad the largest number of farms.
Ii Is very easy to make assertions,
out men claimin:, to be patriotic AMI
to teach others, should inform them
selves before they undertake to be a
leader of tornadoes that will sweep
from the face of the earth our game
and our game birds. and will sweep
away the means of livelihood of 5000
sturdy men, heads of families, who are
engaged in guiding, sporting camp
proprietors, hotel keepers and cooks.
Farmers and farmers boys in agricul-
tural towns where no hunters from out
side ever go, killed. last year, according
| 10 the returns from the town clerks,
1861 deer worth S2S,61OO0 at a low val
| uation.
1 do not believe that these men COR
rectly represent the farmers of Maine.
There are eight counties in the State,
10 wit. kennebec, Lincoln, Waldo,
| Knox, SagadahOc. Cumberland, An
| droscoggin and York whose delegation
in the Legislature made the game laws
| Tor their county to suit themselves.
| THESE, with the exception of Cumber-
! land have special close time different
from the general law governing the
other counties. All no. not all of our
wldeawake progressive farmers are
AFRAID OF deer, or a moose, by any
means!
| l am we'll acquainted with the farm
| ers OF Maine; l was born on a farm
ana nave lived among farmers all my
lie. Ihey are not solicitiOus to have
TIE State seal changed and to elimi-
nate the moose lying down quietly
under the pine, for fear that this en-
blem on the State seal may keep away
would be settlers.
| Nobody wants to injure our agricul-
tural mterests-we are as patriotic, I
dare say. as our friend who has volun-
teered to lead a tornado to wipe the
game laws from off the Statute books.
The lovers of our wild game, lovers
| of solitude, and grandeur of our woods
and mountains are as loyal to Maine,
| are as interested in Maine, in her fu-
| ture progress and glory as those who
| seek to destroy our game laws and are
| anxious that the last deer, the last
moose, the last game bird shall be
swept from off the face of the State of
Maine.
sy with the farming interest, there will
be none, there can be none, these inter-
ests are mutual, and will always be
regulated to the satisfaction of reason
able men, and no one, strive how hard
he may, can succeed in creating an
tagonism between them.
Hon. VIM. Engel of Bangor, was call
ed on and presented facts and data
showing that there are 1929 farms in
the State and that each farm contri-
butes n little more than three cents
annually for the protection of fish and
game. and that the average amount
paid toward the State tax by each farm
is only $l.74.
Hon. w. 7. Haines of Waterville
made spirited address in which he
spoke of the educational work the asso-
citation in showing the people what was
needed in the way of protection for the
forests, as the great rivers of the State
are dependent on the forest which
clothe the watersheds to furnish water
for the great water powers which ope-
rate so many mills and factories.
Other speakers were Hon. V. W.
FacFarlane. f. p. Mayo. Hon. J. +.
Snrague. Col. J. X. Stetson and Hon.
Charles F. Oak. all of whom spoke of
the work of the association and the
success of the license law and of the
manner in which the interests of the
farmers and game protectors are COM
bincd