Imperial Valley press., 1908-08-01
THE NEEDLESS CRUELTY OF SPORT

In the name sport boys throughout of the genes rendest ovabe of eahered and TBog @ to % ngp o sdT % as Rs 5 hrG % gese Nmrod, outfttng for Sunday of slaughter Back home such thing chasing the dove with game birds until came to
 It is lawful in California to wound mam and kill the beauti- full bird that has been for the emblem of and gentle ness but crime against nature? What dul brush lump of clay first put the dove in the list that lawful victims of the boodust transmitted by ancestors
 There is but one Pea in exenuaGn Of the crime m of dGve the thrush the songparrow and doubtless the mocng bird are good to eat yet is crime to kill them and sportsmen regard with abhoence and righteous wrath the Italians Greeks and be distinctions of be came laws and shoot mpartiav at thing wearing feathers fur when they go aed with
 As the progress of society measured by the essenmg mum savage and civilized man may be measured by the of mnuton of force of the inherited desire to y and that cast of harmless creatures Increase the number of immune evidences of persistence of the killing instinct and of racial retro gresson When California exposed the dove to the etha shot
 The processes of evolution slow but the time may come when laws for the @ of % animals 5 shall & be s to the laws of nature Nov we protect animals and birds for certain in order that may kill them at other seasons
 The cruelty of the sportsman thoughtess without evil intent and wrong deliberate calculated ncon of needless pain yet there moral force behind the injunction necessity life sharing with him the the earth The who kills for sport is not to be condemned sngng shot the beautiful body of dove But is no less true on earth man. and he his sin with cloak of unconscious and fantastic hypocrisy.
 sportsman professes deep and abiding love of nature talks about the birds and the animals he regarded then gush and himself giving much space 10 his fine feelings noble seriously orty other of his robust virtue and his soulful appreciation of wonders of God If his friends the birds and scientific interest their anatomy do regard that noble the sportsman he regards the rateSnae because mercifu Providence spared them the agony of understanding.
 As writer in Forest and Stream has said symptom of the change working in the attitude of toward the journals of revOng detailed accounts of the bucey of time the pages of oudoOr publications reeed carTiOn; when the vacation hunt felt incumbent him true sportsman to write to his inflicted of the organs and bones smashed by his bullets of the death agOnes and COnVusOns of his tortured victim Sporting literature the writings of mature lovers, consisted chiefly of reports of autopses asassnaed dumb creatures
 stuff has had it's day. and it is well that has though its place have the product of the neteakg with jaclrabbit ntIOspecVe bears physical c0yOe pedagOgic and sentimental catfish The natuIetWadders will have their day. but they will Wadde them in time and residue of good of ndness to our dumb brothers will remain In time shall come to understand the good poet who wrote:
 He prayeth best who oveth best
 All things, both great and small
 For the good God, who lOVeh us,
 He made and loveth al.
 Until then shall go with and kill for be- do any other for getting into the It would be idle refrain from hunting any of the recognized game birds and animals but might be possible foregO the sport of killing benefcent the mourning dove and to induce the Legislature take that bird under the protection of law