The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-11-30
SOME DESIRABLE LEGISLATION.
A Correspondent Suggests Enactment
of Law Protecting Game.

OF Law Protecting Game.
To the Editor Of The Republican,:
Now that the people have declared
through the medium of the ballot the
popular choice for legislative repre-
sentatiOn. it may be well, in advance
of the time for the Legislature to
meet, to cali public attention to pos
sible legislative needs. The differ
ence between actual and fancied needs
of public concern may be reached by
temperate and we'll conceived express
siOns of opinion in the county papers.
Our representative shall go to An
napolis, it seems, bearing some COM
mission superior to the limsy clan
trap nothingness of prostituted cam
paign sOphistries.
In our knowledge of Maryland
there has never been such general and
anxious apprehension as now regard
ing the extinction of game in the
counties OF the state, and Judging
from what is heard, it is reasonable
to believe that very restrictive if not
prohibitive laws will be enacted
against hunting fora number of years
Such law applied to Garrett may be
far more desirable than our existing
condition, but an Act strictly prohib-
tive may not be justified. If we are
TO preserve the pheasant from total
humiliation we should seek to adopt
and enforce a measure against the
eXportation of that bird, under any
circumstances, beyond the county
bounds. That removes the excessive
price and money-making inducement
with class of people, that from the
irst to the last hour of the season
make a business of pheasant limiting
exclusively for market This business
will close with the last day of Novem-
Der, 1905. nearer than eyer before of
ar determination of that fowl in Gar
rett.
The pheasant is rare and truly
game bird of beautiful plumage and
faultless flavor and his natural home
and heath is here. When Garrett
permits him to he ruthlessly driven
from her mountain ranges and fast
nesses, glades and forest, then one of
her distinguishing aid most ancient
characteristics will have departed
from her.
One more piece of legislation now
brought to public notice in Mary
land for the first time, so far as we
know, merits careful consideration.
Mr.. B. Howell Griswold, lawyer and
banker of Baltimore, is now publish
ing in the Baltimore Sun articles for
the next General Assembly, touching
the TOrrens system of transfer of real
estate. 1t is held that the present
method is costly and intricate beyond
reason; that it has been in use about
three hundred years and should now
be obsolete. When a farmer sells his
corn, oats, horse or cattle he is not
required to give deed nor to be sub
jected to any cost; but'if he sells his
real estate, the cost, it is said, ranges
from ten dollars to hundred dollars
or more, when two or three dollars
may be made to answer every require
ment. This question is worthy of
profound thought and if our citizens
can obtain its benefits without injury
or loss provided against in the pres
eDt system they should have that adj
vantage. The TOrrens plan, we are
told, is not an experiment, but has
been in modified forms in Australia,
England and parts of Canada. And
similar laws, it is stated, have been
adopted in Massachusetts,, Illinois,
California, Minnesota and other states
Our Senator elect can help 20 crack
this important nut for the Maryland
people. The high qualities-moral
and Otherwise-wth the clean record
that enabled him, without unseemly
pressure or comprising connivance,
to win in a nominating convention
over popular and astute competitors,
and that secured his magnificent pop
ular vote in last November's election
will rank him commandingly among
the influential representatives in leg
islative councils and keep him in the
clearer and higher atmosphere of
public service.
RFLLIM.
Nov. eth, 1905.