The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-08-13
TO FIGHT EGRET SALES.
People Protest Uncle Sans Auction
OF Murdered Mother Birds.

New York, Aug. 10 Shocked by
1.-THE thought of Uncle Sam selling
the nuptial plumes of many mother
birds, butchered in the mid st &C.
their starving young, thousands of
Americans have today Joined a
movement of protest against such
a disposal of the egrets, seized by
the customs house in this city, which
the government has just ordered to
be sold here. From almost every
i state in the union scores of COM
! munications have been received by
the National Association of Audubon
| Societies at its headquarters, l4l
Broadway, offering support and urg-
| ing action to prevent putting the
nation in the bloody business of the
lmilliners who are insisting upon
! this humiliating step. BY its Lax
Legislation and law enforcement
against the bird butchers, the EN-
ipire State is alone responsible in
this instance for thus making the
government traffic in these spoils
of murdered motherhood, it is dc
Iclared.
While these costly heron plumes
Iare today held here at the customs
house to be auctioned off to the
IiDillmers whose women customers
!5lill call for the barbaric trophies in
their bonnets, hundreds Of wives
land mothers in this city and
! throughout the country are organ
,izing 10 protest aga'n-, this national
shame. Backing the Audubon
workers in this Ino ement the Ma
tional Federation CT Womcns Clubs
is already arrayeG, as well as many
organizations OF sportsmen aLl
oranges, whose Ln!nt crsr want me
birds 70 protect their crops rather
than to become the dead wares Of
a few Broadway milliners. From
several friends and appreciators Of
I bird life money has been sent to be
| devoted to fighting the milliners,
whose commercial backing has en-
Tabled them with a staff of lawyers
to urge Uncle Sam to traffic in these
scalps Of mother birds much against
his will
Plans 10 prevent any further pos
Isiblity OF the government profiting
by the sale of these egrets. torn
from the backs of butchered females
with young, are already being made
lin this city State and federal Of
ficials are to be at once warned OF
1.-The urgency of their duty in this
matter. and every effort made by
1.-THE people in states where laws are
lax on this point 70 obtain legisla-
Ition forbidding the sale Of egrets
by government officials In New
York state particularly the officials
whose attitude was the chief cause
! given by the government for re-
lyersing it's former decision TO de-
StrOE the con lrdDahn HtTDu Dlulh'0'
iwilI be urged 10 take every possible
faction TO prevent repetition OF TINS
national disgrace through the En-
pire state.
I'VE are in this fight against bird
.butchery to stay" said William Dut-
cher. president Of the National AS
ISOLATION Of Audubon Societies, at its
headquarters. l41 Broadway, today.
i"Although the milliners may appear
to have won a temporary victory in
insisting that our government traf-
fir IN these trophies of the wholesale
bJtchery Of mothers who must leave
their young 10 starye, we believe the
country viii be soon aroused to com
bat this disgrace TO the whole ma
ton Now that the people are wax
ing UP 70 the economic importance
OF bird protection We feel sure that
we shall soon rally to our support
every truly patriotic citizen OF Amer