The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1913-04-15
TO Save HOSTS
OF HERONS

New York, April 15.-That 80, 000, 900
Americans have broken party lines to
support the single section of the tariff
bill prohibiting the importation of the
plumes of butchered mother herons
and all other wild birds, was shown by
reports received today from every sec
ton Of the country at the headquarters
Of the National Association of Audi
bon societies in this city. In response
to kilograms of congratulation from
many of the 100000 members affiliated
under this association, as we'll as from
state game commissioners, oranges
women's clubs, museums of natural
history. bird protective, scientific and
sportsmenS organizations all over the
land, the Audubon leaders, who pre-
sented this section aimed at aigrette
traffic to the trainers of this bill, are
now urging all humane citizens to ask
it's passage at the hands Of their rep
resentatiVes at Washington. If the
bloody scalps of the birds for whose
nuptial plumes the whole globe has
been secured for the millinery market
are barred from American shores by
this tiny tariff clause, millions of
brooding birds of the most beautiful
species will be saved from slaughter
and eventual extinction, 1T is declared.
Powerful opposition to the principle
OF pFOL6CllOu VI UlEO lie, WnlCl WAS
voiced in this section of the tariff bill
in response to a country wide demand
for non bipartisan humanitarianiSm, is
today expected solely from the mon
led interests that maintain armies to
hunt down the mother egrets all
over the world and ship their scalps
to milliners here, leaving a brood of
young to starVe for each plume cap
tured in the slaughter. If the new tar
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admitted by the milliners that the
vogue of the aigrette, the maribou, the
bird Of paradise and the goura will
yield to ostrich plumes and feathers
of domestic fowls, and the cruel traf-
fc in murdered mother birds will
cease. In order to defeat the selfish
interests Of the few bird butchers who
thrive on aigrette importation, the
Federation of Women's Clubs, the
New York Geological society and
scores Of other organizations have
promised to help the National Asso-
citation of Audubon societies present
to congress the demand of the whole
American people for the passage of
this tariff provision.
Guarding 5000 egrets that still
survive the slaughter of plume hunt
ers in this country. the Audubon lead
ers have just stationed a force of war
uOllS ONCi bItlIby tOIOtllCS OI CtlSS6 pei
secuted birds in Florida, Georgia,
South Carolina, North Carolina and
Louisiana. If the importation of
aigrettes is forbidden by law, a repre-
sentative Of the millinery interests has
declared to the trainers of the tariff
bill that it will not tend to stimulate
the butchery of these naive members
of the species. With the abandonment
of the aigrette for millinery ornament,
which is promised If the bird protect
i've clause becomes law, ornithologists
predict that the beautiful birds that
bear these plumes will be saved from
extinction here.
The greatest opportunity of the age
to wipe out the cruel atgrette traffic
absolutely is now presented to the
American people, said T. Gilbert
Pearson, secretary OF the National AS
ISOLATION Of Audubon societies, at its
headquarters, 1874 Broadway, today
Every humane person, irrespective of
political principles or party should at
once write representatives in congress
in support Of this single provision In
the tariff bill that will save from
slaughter and extinction the worlds
most beautiful bird species. We be-
lieve that with the exception of few
feather dealers, all of the people OF
our country are united In support of
this legislative reprieve for the
butchered BIRDS -.