The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-09-28
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WouId be IN Efacaeieus ArticIe for
Mr.. Carney In knling Quail

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Ocala, Fla. Sept. &c. 1871
Editor star I had decided TO say
nothing more about the Marion coun-
ty game law but so many have urged
that I reply.
I was very much surprised at the
tone Of Mr.. Carney's letter for he
knows that he received my hearty
support in the last primary and much
more than my vote.
When I wrote my first article on the
game law / did not then know who
was its author. Hence / could not
possibly have had any motive except
to show the absurdity and uneonsti-
tutionality of the law and the annihi-
lation OF the game which would nee
essarily follow its application.
Long ago I learned that those
worsted in argument acknowledge
their defeat by the use Of personal
epithets, which in general have no
bearing on the issue. Mr.. Carney's
defeat was shown by urging egotism
and misinformation as the leading
characteristics Of my article Whether
this be true or false I leave to those
who have read both articles.
a special friend of mine and of Mr..
Carney's as well. explained TO me that
the caustic remarks directed at me
were due to the supposition that my
article was written for political rea-
sons. Not then knowing who was the
author of the law, it was not possible
for such reason to exist
Well. / certainly do pity a man who
has to bear the responsibility of such
| a law and at the same time wants to
run for office.
1 want to state that I have never
owned an automatic gun, and that only
once in my life have I ever owned any
kind of bird dog, and that only for
a period of eighteen months; that I do
not at this time own any dog; that /
have never seen deer running wild;
| that I have never shot at turkey in
Florida, though I have been a citizen
of the state for six years. Hence ]
/ sportsman.
/ II our senator believes SO much in
4 this law as he asserts, why was no eff
| fort made to have. it statewide? And
Especially why should not it have been
given to Sumter county by her repre-
sentative in the upper house? Was II
fright to thus neglect the interest OF
Sumter county? Does the fact that the
Lake Bryant account for the prohi.
bition of running deer with dogs cas-
of the Oklawaha river?
Inasmuch as our senator had {
friend introduce the bill in the lower
house, so that it came to the senate IL
its amended form, in which form HI
fathered the bill through the senate
II cannot see how he can escape tn,
. responsibility for the wording and ar
arrangement of the bill, which since thu
. discussion, he admits to be contradic
tory and that the sections conflict.
An analysis of our population show
that living in the principal towns an
villages and on small tracts imme
diately adjoining the towns wher
there is game, workers of phosphat
lands, operators of turpentine land
and those represented by sawmill in
terests to be more than nine-tenths @
the people, and less than one-tent
iresiding on enclosed lands where Their
| is any game. Why should the les
than ten per cent of our people hav
the privilege Of shooting the game a
the year which is denied to the ninet
per cent? This has been called by 1t
! author farmers law. My own obsel
ovation and that Of number of other
! shows that ninety-fve per cent of til
hunting now being done is by the co
3 lored population, and practically non
by the farmers. One turpentine ma
complained that the law was causin
: him trouble his men wanted |
hunt instead of work.
xl Our senator's argument stating thu
= people will only kill game as the
! would poultry reminds me of the pit
= lures in a fashion magazine, whel
i the dresses and millinery is made
3 look good on specially made to ord,
! faces and figures. So the people al
i made to fit his law. 1t is possible OF
4 man out of twenty might conserve tt
i game. but the rest would not.
I'll To illustrate the latest article in d
Il Tense of the law he asserts that de,
= hunting in September and October WI
= result only in the killing of bucks.
u the deer killed so far this fall 1 ha,
e been able to hear Of only one bue
4 being killed, all the rest being faw1
- and does. Nine out of every ten WI
80 hunt deer will simply shoot deer witt
s out regard to sex or condition. tt
3 doe will not leave her young fawn al
= the fawn does not know how to escaI
hence they fall easy victims, while II
old buck knows how to take care
himself. So the law is admiral
adapted to the determination of Il
deer and the same principle holds go,
for the other kinds of game. The chi
objection to this law is that tim
have changed, and the law is for
lyears behind time
In conclusion 1 will state that
might be good plan to have our Sc
lator appointed warden to catch t
EQUALS by some painless method a.
then chloroform and sell them to t
venerable editor of the Banner, who
appetite for quail urges him to su
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