Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-04-15

Game was plentiful. The doubling OF
our population within that period has
made a vast difference in all the
conditions of life. Forty-fve millions
have become 90,O0O,000. The public
domain has become matter Of pri-
Vate ownership. Our destructive pol
icy has rendered our timber resources
entirely Inadequate. The same policy
has nearly destroyed our game. Every
year agriculture is encrOaching upon
every available nesting place of the
wild things. Deny to them the pro-
lection of the law,-Open up all sea
sons to the increasing army Of hunt
ers, and 25 years more will see $780,
100000 Of people, whose eyes were
never gladdened with the sight of the
streaming squadTOns of the wild fowl
pictured agaist the sky, and whose
ears were never attuned to the music
of the birds. 1t is our business as
makers Of the law, to add something
to the life and well being of society.
rot to rob it of the good things al
ready possessed. 1t will be better far
for real spOrtsmen and for the public
veal, if those whose greed and selfish
ness Outrun their better Judgment,
are held in check today, for there
will come another day,-tOmOrrOw.
| endeavOred to get this bill report
ed in some form before the adjourn
ment in the hope that I might be
present to enter my earnest protest
against the enactment Of a measure
SO destructive. Failing in this, it is
with some feeling of Indignation that
/ find this measure reported for pas
sage and an effort being made to
rush it through Immediately upon the
meeting Of the Legislature, at a time
when l am unavoidably absent.
The reason urged for hasty action.
tOwit: To give those so called sports
men a few days at once, in which to
crafty their blood lust, was not
urged before the adjournment, al
though it was even more forcefuI then
than now. But for some reason best
known to those who prefer the devi-
GUS methods of accomplishing selfish
results, to the wide open and honest
methods which should characterize
every legislative enactment, the argu-
ment for hasty action was not urged.
until all necessity for hasty action
had passed. Certain it is, that the
question Of a departure from the long
policy of the state, at
time when the example Of our state is
becoming the established policy of al
the states in the union and iIl-consfd-
cred action under suspension Of the
rules of ordinary legislative proceed
IRE.
Il sincerely trust wrote the speak
ar in conclusion. that no hasty ac-
ton may be taken in this matter and
that unless this bill is indefinitely
postponed, its consideration may be
deferred for at least one week. in or
der that ii may have due and care
IuI consideration, and to enable me
to be present and register my vote
against the measure"
But Bill Goes.
Yet the friends of spring shooting
nevertheless advanced the measure
to engrOssment just the same and it
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urged that action at once was ueces
sary if the bill were to be of any avail
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