The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1913-02-28
.T0 STOP SLAUGHTER
Audubon Societies Want Tariff
Wall to Bar Out Aigrettes.
National Association Demands Action
on Part Of Ways and Means Com.
mittee-eeek to End Dsstrue.
tjon Of Beautiful Herons.

New York.-Backed by farmers.
sportsmen and women's clubs in
every section Of the country. officers
OF b National Association Of Audi.
Dol Societies have demanded Of the
ways and means committee Of con.
gress an opportunity to urge . prohib-
tive tariff on aigrette feathers at the
hearing on schedule N, which will be
held before the end of this month.
Opposing the moneyed interests Of
the millinery wholesalers, whose in
roads on the valuable bird life of New
York. Louisiana, Missouri. New Jersey,
Oregon and California have already
forced these states to pass laws ma
king contraband the sales Of these
plumes. the national Audubon delega-
ton will ask that they be excluded
from the whole country in the interest
OF everyone dependent upon it, agri.
cultural prosperity.
The Federation Of Women's Clubs
and organizations Of grangers in al
most every state, as we'll az the Camp
IRE club, the New York Geological 10
ciety. the Long Island S~portsmen's A.
ISOLATION. the American Game Protec-
tive association and other bodies of
sportsmen, have pledged their support
to this movement.
Data, compiled from scientific obser-
walton Of a flock Of the few herons
that still survive the Wholesale butch
cry Of professional plume hunters in An
Audubon breeding rookery In Florida.
congress that these rare birds r =
considerable factor in the destruction
Of field mice, gophers, grasshoppers
and other agricultural pests.
While in some instances they have
been found to devour an occasional
trout. their regular diet IL proved to
consist principally Of minnows. suck
ers and other useless fish, as we'll a.
water snakes, that are known to de-
stroy great quantities of trout eggs
and valuable young fish. Other proof
Of the natural need of farmers and
fishermen for the beautiful birds that
the milliners have almost driven to
extinction will be presented by repre-
sontatives Of these interests.
Following the recent Introduction
by Senator Root Of a resolution en-
towering the president of the United
States to call an international con-
fress Oh bird protection, representa-
tives of the world powers actively n
gagged in saving the rare species that
is being m~assacred for their aigrette
plumes are row expressing to the Au'
dubon organization their support of
this movement.
While the whole globe is at present
secured for these trophies. taken from
butchered mother birds for market
here. a tariff ban would do much to-
ward saving the beautiful heron from
worldwide destruction. it is asserted.
With the people Of the United
States of almost every class united to
bar from our country the aigrettes of
the unfortunate heron. VI expect to
meet the big millinery interests in
sole opposition before the congress
sional committee" said T. Gilbert
Pearson, secretary Of the National AZ.
ISOLATION of Audubon Societies, at its
headquarters. 1874 Broadway.
The slaughter Of these useful and
beautiful birds IL . commercial matter
only to the men who sell their scalps
in those states where this shameful
trafac IL not already forbidden by law.
| Congress should certainly recognize
the sentiment and interests Of the
whole people, who ask it to end this
importation ~ q matter Of humanity
as we'll ~ economic and agricultural
benefit"
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