The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-29

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shop falling Off hip roof. He has
published dozen or so books of real
scientific value, and has hunted big
game everywhere in the world where
big game exists. Canada thinks as
much of him as the United States
does. A few years ago he found a
wonderful stretch of hunting country
along the Kootenal river and at his
request Canada made 1t a game pre-.
serve.
When he came to the New York
geological park in 1896 it was just
a wide stretch of land entirely sur
rounded by politicians. But he has
built it up-aided by generous men
who are in sympathy with his plans
and trust him absolutely-until it is
now the finest geological collection in
the United States and compares most
favorably with the best in Europe.
He is o. K. as hunter and taxidermist
and lecturer and author and photo
grapher and public spirited citizen.
But as prophet he is sublime
and unmitigated frost.
And that is amazing in view of the
fact that he is an Iowa man. Who's
Who says he was educated at > the
Iowa Agricultural college. asw
DR.. Hornaday is chairman of the
Camp Fire club of America. That is
a body of about $50 men who have
hunted. modelled or painted big game.
The chief object of the club is the
preservation of wild life and forests.
The committee on legislation con-
sists of twelve lawyers, five business
men and one zoologist and the funds
for it's work are obtained by public
subscription. There are no salaries
! and no private interests to serve. 1t
has issued an appeal for cooperation
in presenting to the American people
the facts regarding the fur seal indus
| try before the destruction is complete
I'VE dislike controversy" says the ap-
peal. "but we will shirk no duty that
seems to devolye upon us in the pre-
I. servation of valuable wild life from
annihilation We regard Secretary
Nagel's course as outrageous and in
defensible, and we ask you to print our
open letter as contribution to the
cause of conservation which, in this
case, is certainly in desperate straits.
The appeal goes on:
The United States government as
represented by Charles Nagel, secre,
tary of commerce and labor is about
to perpetuate a very grim and deadly
4 Joke on the few surviving fur-seals on
/ the Pribilof islands of Alaska. The
seals are to be slaughtered by the
/ United States government. In the
name of protection" The forces
now arrayed against the fur-seal con
sist of Secreatrv Nagel, Fish Commits
sione~ George M. Bowers, Walter I
4 Lembkey and the board of experts
of which DR. David Starr Jordan is
chairman. The present dep'orable
/ conditions have been brought about
despite tie fact that for the past ter
years or more TIE government in its
\ foreign relations and domestic polio,
has had the benefit of the advice O
the present board of experts.
At this very moment. the whole
strength of the United States govern
ment is enlisted for the destruction
of the fur-seals and the qualification
of the American nation in the eve'
of the world The question is. VIII
the American people stand for it?
The exposure of official blunderin'
and wrongdoing is not an agreeable
task. The Campfire Club of Americ;
dislikes controversy; but the presen
Intentions of the head of the depart