The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-08-28
TO PROTECT GAME.
Good Work of the Audubon So
ciety and Its Needs.
An Appcal That Should Meet With a
Hearty iscsponse From All True
Snort Smp1
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AL Appcla LllftG SllOulQ Meet With a |
Hearty iscsponse From All True
SportSmen.
To the Editor of The State.
The Audubon work has reached a
stage when appeal must be made to
the sympathies of the larger public.
IN about four months of active field
work have been painfully impressed
with the destruction of game aad
fish, going Oh in every part of South
Carolina; painfully impressed with
the Indifference of many educated
people; with widespread ignorance as
to the facts of the situation, and f.
nally encouraged by a sympathy and
encouragement met with In every
quarter CT South Carolina, except the
city of Sumter. where not single
member was enrolled.
What the trouble with Sumter is
| do not know, and the hope is still
entertained that her sporting blood
and love of law will be aroused. For
some reason a five days appeal did
not stir them Spartanburg. Green
Vile. Orangeburg, Beaufort, Charles
ton, Rock Hill, Gaffney, Rarrwell.
Bamberg, Uniou Columbia and other
places have responded to the call.
more or less, with Spartanburg and
Charleston leading. Other places
are vet to be visited where help will
be had and an accident prevented a
thorough canvass of Lancaster, where
the cause has friends. So much
for the general situataion from
this point Of view.
The Audubon society. chartered by
the last legislature. and organized i'm
mediately afterward by the election
of officers and the adoption Of the
begun work in earnest and the results
accomplished are fattering. A num-
Der of wardens have been appointed
and put to work. More appointments
are to follow. Cases have been made
out against violators and more will
be made. The game laws of South
Carolina can be enforced. This has
been learned. There is not the Sight
est doubt about it. A healthy public
sentiment is in evidence.
The game laws. especially the fish
laws. are being shamelessly violated.
The best game fish in South Carolina
are being slaughtered by thousands
by the use Of dynamite, traps and
nets-all in violation of law.
A party came into low-country
town (name omitted for various rea-
sons) some time ago with 46S strings
of redbreast as his part of nights
work. This was over 500 worth Of
fish.
1t is obvious that game fish are
doomed to speedy extinction by such
methods.
In many counties partridges
| (quaiD are shot in September and
the names Of prominent club men, in
Columbia and elsewhere. have been
| furnished me as persistent violators
Of this law.
Now. these gentlemen are all my
personal friends. but it will afford
me genuine pleasure to have each
and every one of them fined if the
facts can be proved. No pains will
be spared to prove them.
A gentleman ought to set, and
these. particular gentlemen must set
better example.
Now to the point:
The legislature provided no funds
| for the work. The national Audubon
society is waiting to see whether the
representative cntiZens of South Car
DINA want their law enforced. The fee
| for Audubon membership is s. and
the annual dues are 81. So that Sc
pays the membership fee and the
first years dues.
The Audubon society needs as
many s6 memberships as it can get
and needs them now.
One thousand memberships at Sc
will make the society a success from
the start and introduce a reign of
law and order that will he fine OBJ
ject lesson. Such enforcement Of
law will inculcate respect for all law.
The opportunity is a grand one.
The society and the laws have the
good will of the press. They both ap-
peal for an active exercise Of that
good will. Well wishers to the cause
should send in their membership fees
to the treasurer. Mr.. Albert R. Hey
ward, Columbia. S. c. The Audubon
society of South Carolina has no reg
ulations but the laws of South Caro-
lima
1t appeals to the sportman, lie
humanitarian, the lover of nature
and the advocate of law and order.
On its rolls today are South Caro-
lina's most honored names an1 its
most distinguished supporter is Jas.
H. Carlisle of Wofford, whose advO
cacy of any cause hallows t.
The fight is on. The cause proceeds.
Conflict is in the air. but when the
smoke lifts there will be a victory.
The Audubon society appeals to its
friends. to the daily and weekly
press. and to every friend Of law and
order in South Carolina to come to
the rescue, to save the birds, save the
fish, save rhe game.
Any contribution will be welcome
With liberal response the work
will go on without setback and by
fall, when the nonresident licenses
'tIt ColieSleU. ILlSl z OuSHt w w eNoehA
dant funds on hand.
This license is $40, exacted of ev-
cry nonresident hunter. and there
are several thousand that come into
South Carolina annually.
The society will appreciate the pub
lication of this letter by any South
Carolina newspapers and will thank
them for doing so. Being in the field
I have no means of making copies
and trust that necessity may excuse
lack of courtesy
Every contribution spreads the
cause Every SIS paid now has the
force of dynamite.
Do urge a response
Nothing is required of members
but their moral support. They do not
have to report ANYBODY. The society