Corpus Christi caller and daily herald. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1911-1917, 1914-10-01


very careful not 80 let single specimen run FOO
loose after 1870. The solitaire. inhabiag the ISLAM
Of Rodriguez, being toothsone also. and OF serve
\ ia many household ways was finally eNerninate
in 1861 notwithstanding the fact that its rapid
decreasing numbers plainly told the story Of IN
( pending determination.
\ Coming down TO recent times. ~ an age 81 pcca
enlightenment boasiing Of IT'S ability 10 think ahcaf
what 40 we find Just how have market hunters
\ depending on certain birds for q livelihood roi
tfived n guard them from determination
IN 100 there were litefnlly thousands of garr
fowl distributed oser great stretch Of tcrriior
Immediately south Df the Arctic Circle. tiarr-fow
were fairly good eating increasingly valuable 70
their eg0s aud skins. They were pcrsstcnilv hunted
IN even the more inaccessible islands The feWe
their number She more eagerly ihcy were pursued
rntil ai last sought iy museums, they disappeared
The last solitary specimen having been shot IN lee
ani IN 1874
In 1915 there were literally billions If passenge
pjyrons Va the United States. They hlackcncd III,
skies they sought their roosiing places. o.
hc tl1cls having been estimated 10 contain ove
300 million birds These birds were Melted and sho
ia counties numbers. They were shipped by Ia,
hundreds of thousands More ruthless slaughter
wHs never known Market hunters slew until cx
hansicd
Two weeks ago. 81 the Philadelphia Zoo the lasi
passenger pigeon died or the countless billions
there is not one left to tell the tale of man 5 cupid
iiv Deliberately, seeing the birds vanish hcfor,
ut
ti1~tic interest Tins purely commercial interest ~,
should saw that Mr. Jackson speaks of
Ia addition 10 TIC birds mentioned. hundreds of
species have either bceh cxterminacd or are hecom
ing very rarc Various sorts Of waterfowl gulls and
terms. hcrons aud bitterns are among the doomed
one ot which, the snowy cgrrt Is almost extinct the
mother birds having been pluckcd alive by the thou
sands for the sake Of those airy feathers that ton
mIlady 5 couture Md the cnaincled birds of para
dise flashing thousand hucs having feathers fan.
iasically shaped. have hern hunted through the
anglcs and wilds Of New Zealand until several Of
the fifty known varieties have become extinct aud
others are threatened with extinction. owing In
man greed. despite his knowledge that be- Is sav.
inc the very business that he is dependent on for "a
hving And the Respondent trogans and humming
birds Of tropical America they too are having the
pcpalty Of man lust for gold
Animals have Jared no better than birds and
fishes VIII fare she same IN the end unless man
aNarlciousness can be- curhcd, Notwithstanding the
mleiligcAcc OF a few such men as Mr. Jackson who
appreciate the value Of the goose that LAYS the polen
egg However such men were wholly wanting when
ihe American bison. abundant in 1850 was practi.
eally wiped out by market hunters in 1873 And
ne sea.ottcr, and the pronghuck or American an.
wlope, along with the Rocky Mountain sheep tho
waplt beaver and many other animals of defnit,
economic value would have been deliberately ex.
utpatcd but fof The Intervention of wise laws moi
evolved hy the hunters, hat framed bv public. Suir
lied men who have restrained them in order that
lhe animals mentioned may multiply and poSSihl,
regain ground nnmocsted by MI persons rXecpt
miserable poachers mmindiul of amy duthort,
above that Of gain
Nav, IL MIR, jackson argument held good if men
were ~ the aggregate what be MIR Jackson claim,
TO be IN particular all Of thesc birds and animals and
iShcs representing incomes Ia thousands of persons
would have been preserved automatically Bccans,
OF the apparent need for their preservation men
would have consprcd together to protect them cam,
EHdeSs would have gone homo with empty sack,
Ahsmte nigh prices aud there would hr no such sad
thng rs missing species today
But. Notwithstanding the economic value of thes,
ANIMALS and birds and fishes each representa-,
something tangible 10 the men engaged i'm their IA,
s'ruetion despite the notorious fact that they wer,
becoming ~arcrr every year, the Government nnt
the several states turning deaf ear To protests hn
% step IN and pass laws to assure them against com
plctc determination
| Mr. Jackson woad lmvc MS believe that man seek
to preserve that which is necessary for the further
ance OF his personal welfare. We have cited man,
EXAMPLES 90 the contrary covering n r,nr,sentnti,
term of WEARS. aud they show concuSivcly that man
permitted 10 hunt and fish without restraint myari
amy works against his hest ultimate interests mind
III only of the present thinking Of his bank account
today of poSteriiy tomorrow
! Mr. Jackson siatcs that he helps1 \, r,5,. ,b.
present laws. or, TO be more accurate TINT he use,
his hest efforts 70 help pat some of them an M,
statute books. THIS is not as it should he Fisher
men have No more business shaping laws IA reg,,lat
'hef conduct than railroads have to pass laws con
oernlny the selling Of bonds or the acquisition q
property or liquor dealers have TO Influence law,
governing the sale of ntoNicants
! No profession or business hecanse of inevi,abl,
S'H.nirreN' not unnatural and certainly NOT renre
hrnsihle bu none the less dangerous in the final ~
eaS right, moral or proprietary TO partici
nfl la n,
ern ), and 10 insure the people from dcnrcdn,ions
noi me whit % narLcinn-n anllAnlA .. -. = :.