The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-02-29

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laws are suggested for our people,
that are bodily taken from fcrefGn
statutes and codes. wholly inconsfst-
lent with the form and freedom Of
|our Republican institutions. ! am
lied to doubt a mans patriotism, who
desires to foist an English bill upon
an American people. The bill of Mr..
North was conceived in England In
1881. The English game laws are
founded on the idea OF restricting the
fright of taking came to certain
GLASSES, generally, landlords; hence we
hear 50 much about keeping hood
Ilum" hunters OF Of the farms. This
Itax bill of MIR. NonJh, coming from
1.-THE source 1t does and being OF such
a character. warns the American peo-
pie. that our fore fathers Just ante
dating the Revolution, had taste
of English tax laws that their de-
Iscendants ought not soon to forget.
The right to hunt depended upon
| birth or estate and not upon citizen
ship. There was no license fee charged
50 long as this state OF affairs existed.
When the right was extended beyond
the persons Of s'lords," then English
| lords conceived the idea of license
fee or tax. Here, the laws have
been enacted for the purpose OF PRO-
iTECTING game. without taxing
lperson to hunt on his own lands, for
bidding their killing at certain sea-
sons of the year. This English law
OF 1881, provided like the North Bill,
that farmer (or pers~n) might
kill game on his own lar1, or the
Hand of another who consents by
first taking out license and paying
the fee My contention IS the North
| Bill In part being provided for by
existing law and practice, Is wholly
unnecessary, In as much as the lie
ense comes and should come from
the farmer or land owner, on whose
premises IL is dcsired to hunt. My
charge is the North Bill goes further;
as l understand 1t, 1t gives for fee
or tax, the right to stranger to first
insinuate himself onto the premises
of another, and hunt, without being
liable for trespass for such entry.
and being liable only Tor any trespass
he may afterward commit OF ones
premises He has state license to
go for that purpose on your prem
ises and mine He shows you his
license. and what are you going to do
about it? You say to him, I have
paid a license fee myself and / want
to hunt on my own premises, and
beside your dog tnay frighten my
sheep, you may accidently shoot do
mestic fowl or nit one of my child
rem and you have no right on here
so / want you to get of. My fences
have been torn down. my straw
stacks set on fire and you just keep
away from here. But here Is my state
license, a law, taken from an English
Statute, enacted into "Lord" North's
American Bill, and In that will not
give me right to enter on your land
to hunt and fish, even II you have
paid tax to hunt and fish on your
own farm. and have right: so / have
Just as much OF right as you have.
Say, my friend" says the hunter
that condemned North game and
fish bill is after money and nothing
else. Don't you Sc 1t compels you to
pay for hunting and fishing on your
own land. Ii makes me pay tax
to go out and ask you IL may hunt
on your farm. And you say no. then
] am out II ! don't hunt. But II
do. then you have me arrested, then
the lawyers must have big fee and
see what a devil OF muss this bill
stirs up. 1t licenses one to pay out