The Glenwood post., 1908-12-19
Article By Secretary Whitehead Touch.
es The Spot And Lawmakers
Should Stop The Slaughter

Animal protection, mas caused com.
ment not only among the people of
Colorado, but among people of other
states, where game laws are such as
to permit the slaughter of deer. Here
is part of the Secretary's article
and the Post joins in wishing for a
closed season on deer of all kinds.
"Thc beautiful picture and poem by
Paul Gregg and Walter Juan Davis
respectively tell their story we'll Th.
wounded mother deer leaves trail
of blood on the snow in her flight ana
falls dead across the tree trunk, while
her fawns stand uncomprehending by.
The snow is around them, the bleak
mountain behind. Night is coming ana
with it the hungry wolves and wild
cats. No mother heart and no mother
wisdom protects them now. In the
morning the bloody snow will be all
that is left of them and their mother.
"The Colorado law which permits
tho killing of does and fawns is Il
stupid and disgraceful piece of legis
lation. 1t means the swift extermina
tion Of the deer, from the hunters
standpoint. 1t is a cruel and inhuma1
thing from the standpoint of every
one who pities and defends the weak
and helpless and who respects mother
hood.
1.-THE dead doe is a mother, and in
that respect no different from hu-
man mother. The orphaned fawns are
her children, whom she loved and for
whom she would have fought and died.
like the best of human mothers. To
kill her is not murder by statute, but
it lacks no other murderous essential.
"The brave sportsman who shot
her down with her fawns by her side
did not need the few pounds of meat
her poor body would have furnished.
In all probability the railroad fare he
spent to reach the place where he
could kill her would have bought him
and his family many times as much
food. Probably in his own home with
the arms Of his little ones around him
he planned to 60 out and kill this wild
mother of the woods and mountain.
There were some women who did it.
went out and killed their deer and
boosted of it afterward! How can
woman with mothers heart do such
thing! Some degree of hardhearted-
ness in man may be expected, but in
a woman it shocks us.
GLOW many deer were slaughtered
during the fifteen days of slaughter
the law allows must be matter of
estimate, for to those killed and
shipped by rail, brought out by
wagon and killed by ranchmen, must
Be added the wounded deer which got
away and the fawns whose mothers
were killed. A wounded deer seldom
lives and motherless fawn is devour.
ed At once by beasts of prey.
"M is estimated that nearly as many
fawns asd wounded deer were thus de-
stroyed this year ~ were killed out
right. Reliahls peysons report having
seen dozens Of fawns in a single day
whose mothera bad been killed or driv-
en- OF in the woods by the fusillade
going on from morning till night. The
fawns we're unable to travel in the
deep snov and got on any kind of trail
they could ind and were met on these
trails, sometipss coming up almost
to the men epd again following them
long distapees. Two men report they
could have loaded . box car in two
days with such notherless fawns, and
that they saw nfty or sixty in a day.
Tho wolves and the wildcats got them
all. Fawns weighing ten or hteen
pounds were. shot .doEp by come Of
these brave spprtsmen and their tiny
bodies put in paper sacks! If this is
"sport', if this is hunting let us
buckle ON our cartridge belts and 60
out in the corral or BARNARD and shoot
down, tho sheep, the calves and the
chickens.
"Never wes there such shameless,
brutal slsughter. Men who never saw
. deer, determined to get their share
went out and shct at everything that
ran or dew, ~ far ~ they could see
Il. Children and women hurried out to
dip their hands in. blood. From fifty
to seveqty,Ave women are estimated to
have gone out and tried to kill their
deer.
"Are we going to let this barbarous
thing 60 ont How many people want
II tot Not one in hundred, and that
one 10 = savage. Tho ninety and mine
wsaM rather aet al tas deer and cthe1
has1isn bsaslo aAd birds live.