The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-03
LAST STAND FOR BIRDS. {.
Americans Asked to Oppose Few - Feather Men-Senate Struggle for Tarin Bird Man-MilIinerS
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New York, Sept 3.-Charging that not more than a score of feather dealing firms here form the sole inter est opposing the adoption by the Sen ate of the House tariff bill amend ment protecting wild birds from fbutchery for their pIunage, leaders of the National Association of Audu- bon Societies issued from this city to- day a final call to all American nature lovers to make a. last stand against these powerful commercial interests. That the senators have just referred back to their finance, committee the tariff amendment urged by the millin- cry interests, prohi biting the irnPorta- ton of only a few species of their feathered victims, is declared by the Audubon workers to show some hope of it's eventual defeat. If the sports men. bird lovers and humanitarians 0of the whole country do not at once protest to their senators against the selfish struggle of these ni1iiners at Washington, it is predicted that they may procure the passage of their weak amendment and be free to drive Go extinction species after species of the most useful and beautiful birds.
 With stacks of letters and sheaves of telegrams from constituents urging the adoption of the original House bird protective amendment already piled on the desk of every United States senator, leaders of the senate, FSvlho are advocating the defeat of the Enilliners' measure, have just written 10 the Audubon leaders that this dem Dnstration of popular sentiment to save wild birds exceeds any ever reg 1stered at Washington In co-opera- tion with the New York Geological Society, the Audubon societies are to- Nday sending thousands of appeals to Ehe bird protective, sportsmen'S and agricultural organizations of the en- country popular protest that alone can check the destructive greed of the men who grow rich by the massacre of plum Rge-bearing birds.
 Unless the House tariff ban on de- Btructfve Feather importation is adopt Rd by the senate unamended to suit a Few feather firms in this city, orni- khoIogical experts declared to-day that Hhe most valuable and slightly wild Birds would be exterminated, species after species, as the millinery feather hunters pursued them to meet the demands oL one fashion after another Already a new millinery vogue that mnay mean the destruction of the pheasant to supply it's required plum Rge is reported to have been institut- Bd by the feather dealers. In this way almost any species of insect-eat- Ing American or foreign bird may be- rome fashfonably feathered and hunt ed to death, it Is pointed out.
 We have now come to the final 6ght ebr the existence of the most sEon=s=ciaffy valuable as we'll as soeautiful wild birds of the whole world" said T. Gilbert Pearson, secre- taI.y of the National Association of Audubon Societies at it's headquarters 1874 Broadway, to-day. ''If we can rely on every man, woman and child
 who would save bird life to protest at once to their senators or the sen ate finance committee, we feel sure that the real sentiment of the people of this country will triumph over the desires of the few commercial inter ests now opposing their will. The people must be ever Vigilant, for these destroyers of bird life never sleep