The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-19
Birds Must Be Saved.

Dr. w. I. Hornaday director of the
Bronx Geological park, has issued
what he called &C. @. D." to the
American people in his efforts to save
the wild life of America from extinc-
ton. He has become an editor, pub
fishing THE Wild Life Call Vol. l,
No. i, Just out. Under a caption OF
&c. G. d. he says:
Ordinarily the American people are
working, easysoing, and astonishing
ly patient. But. once they arc aroused,
they can be trusted to right any
wrong and suppress any evil Today
the wild birds are trying to send a
wireless message to the 100000 peo-
pie of the Empire state. 1t is C. @.
D. 1t is the same message that
Binns sent over the Atlantic by wire
less telegraphy when the steamer Re-
public was fatally injured and slowly
sinking. 1t meant, Come quick.
danger.
If the people who are fighting to
preserve our native birds from ami
hilation can only reach and arouse
one-tenth of the 100000 people of the
Empire state. our bros will be saved
at least for the present
DR.. Hornaday mentions these Amer
lean birds are already extinct: The
great aux, passenger pigeon. Labrador
duck, Eskimo curlew. Carolina par
rakeet and famingo.
These, he says, are the next candi-
dates for early extinction in the Unit
ed States: Trumpeter swan. whooping
crane, roseate spoonful, red-breasted
sandpiper, Bartramian sandpiper, gold
en- plover, dowitcher, willet, American
egret. snowy egret, wood duck, sage
grouse, prairie sharptaiied grouse, and
pinnated grouse.
DIR. Hornaday declares that the
Bayne measure comes not moment
too SOON
1t is fairly beyond question. says
he, that the killing of wild game for
the market, and its sale in the open
season and out OF it, is responsible
for the disappearance of at least %
per cent of our stock of American
feathered game. 1t is the market gun
ner, the game hog who shoots for
sport and sells his game. and the
game dealer who have swept away
the wild ducks, the ruffed grouse. the
quail and the prairie chicken that
thirty years ago were abundant on
their natural ranges.
The state of New York does not
permit game killed within her own
borders-and fully identified beyond
the reach of trickery-to be sold dur
ing her closed season; but the Empire
state does permit the sale, all winter
long, of game that has been killed
IN other states and shipped surrepti-
fiously to New York, Is this square
deal between states-to protect your
own, but connive at the destruction
of the game of other states?
THE people who pay big prices for
game in the hotels and restaurants
of our big cities are not men who need
that game as food. Far from It. They
can obtain scores of fine meat dishes
without destroying the Wild focks. In
civilized countries wild game is no
longer necessary as food to satisfy
hunger and ward off starvation. In
the United States the day of the
hungry Indian fighting pioneer has
gone by, and there is an abundance
of food everywhere.
THE time to temporize and feel
fimfd over the game situation has
gone by The situation is desperate;
and nothing but strong and vigorous
measures will avail anything worth
while. The sale Of all wild game
should be stopped, everywhere and at
all seasons, in the state of New York"