The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1910-04-14
EDITOR APPLET
lAMBASTES FISH Law
BELIEVES THE ACT UNCONSTI-
.TUTIONAL AND HOLDS THAT
GAME WARDENS ARE NON EST.


.TUTIONAL AND HOLDS THAT
GAME WARDENS ARE NON EST.
Editor Applet, of the Manning
Times, who is also State Senator
from Clarendon, does not seem to
approve of the new fish law, judg-
ing from the following editorial
article, which appeared in his paper
last week under the caption:
''THE FISH Law ABsURDITY."
In this issue we reproduce the
act passed by the Legislature at its
recent session, known as The Fish
Law" and we can state that the
act which has become law is not in
accordance with the original bill in
troduced, in that it is so amended
as t. take away a number OF
its Objectionable features, although
there still remains enough Of the
drastic in it to make people wonder
how much farther the organized
few will go in their work of op-
preston before the wrath of the
masses is aroused. A reading Of
this abomination will convince any
reasonable mind that the trainers
and the advocates of such legis-
lation cannot have the interests
of the masses at heart, nor are they
sincerely seeking the protection Of
the fish; they have some other pur-
pose in view; in our opinion the
course of the Audubon society has
been run. The leaders overreack-
ed themselves by having laws en-
acted that are oppressively r.
diculcus and which the people will
not stand for; they will demand OF
their Representatives the repeal of
these obnoxious statutes.
The writer opposed the passage
of these laws because he knew that
the people were being misrepre-
sented in the representations made
by the advocates of the measure.
They made it appear it was not
only the Audubon society that was
urging this legislation, but that the
Farmers Union insisted upon it.
The Senator from Calhoun stood up
on the Senate floor and insisted that
in urging the passage of the game
and fish laws he was representing
the Farmers Union; he further mis-
led the Senate, when Clarendon and
Berkeley asked to be exempted, by
reading from the constitution the
inhibition against special legislation
and he argued that if these counties
were exempted it would nullify
the whole act. The writer pro-
tested and directed attention to the
provision of the constitution which
allowed special provisions in
general laws" But the head of the
society and its secretary had lobbi'
ed for these measures and had Sc,
cured enough promises from the
up-the.State-members, where they
have no fishing, to get what they
wanted through the Senate, then
the only hope was getting it killed
in the House, but the Audubon
society people were on the job and
succeeded in the last hours Of the
session in slipping it through.
Section 8 of the abomination is
a most preposterous proposition,
read it: Should any game fish
be taken by net or other appliance
while fishing for other than game
fish, they shall be Immediately re-
turned to the water from whence
thew came" In the name of sense
who is to know whether the fish
DESIGNATED as game fish" have
been thrown back into the water, or
into the frying pan of the fisherman!
Then. too, the provision of Section
9. which forbids the selling OF tsh
between March and November is a