The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-21

Mr.. Charles Askdns Gays that In the South
che feeling among sportsmen is: So long as
the negro VIII raise cotton and let the quail
aione' let him shoot oil the other birds that he
pleases- The Southern States cannot afford
enough paid Game Wardens to curb the bird
eating negroes: public sentiment Ia confined to
small circle OF bird protecuonists and editors,
lug nnu inc southern white planter will not do
ponce DUTY In arres1ng negroes for killing
prds contrary to law. These three reasons tell
ns why the Federal migratory bird law is abso.
smaryland. Virginia, the Carolinas Georgia,
Mississippi. Arkansas and Texas Without
teaera! cooperation, II is a practical impossi.
bility for chose States to protect the insect.
destroying birds that winter there. Texas ia
shambles for all kinds OF game butchery, and
the last Legislature was too raw and ignorant
game bill that was put before it by Representa-.
tive Mills. OF Corsicana- After a gallant fight
Mst Winter for decent protective act the
Virginia Legislature lost the Hart-White bill
py an adverse majority OF four votes In the
lower House. To-day Virginia is one Of the
benighted States
three Of the four Carolina Senators voted to
starve the migratory bird law to death. The
wholesale slaughter OF non-game birds In the
south by negroes has been fully and intelli-
gently treated by an eyewitness who writes
without any heat whatever Mr. Charles AS.
hns In Recreation Magazine for May. 1903.
speaking OF the negro hunter. has this to say:
Il have seen the darkies at Christmas time
collect fifty in q drove. with every man his
oog and spread out over the fields Such a
glorious time as he has thenl He
eats woodpeckers, taybirds, hawks and skrnks
drawing the line only at crows and buxzards.
a., THIS season OF the year have carried
watching the delight of the pickaninnies who,
with glowing eyes. would declare: Thems
mos IS good as chicken!' What happens to
Inc me- robins. doves. larks, red-brds mock1ns
olrds and all songsters in this hungry season
needs hardly to be stated" The white sports
men have told him (the negro) to trap the
IaDoies, pot the robins. slaughter the doves,
XIII the song-birds. but to spare the white
sPortsman's game, the aristooratio little bob
white quail"
The State game commission and tho best
people OF those States are all right, but they
are confronted by conditions presenting Ina.
mense difficulties.
mo Now ~, Just apply this to the Southern States
ana you have the reason for the fed
eral migratory bird lawi That law is alb.
eoluteiy the only law that ever can or ever VIII
Dlrds IN the Southern States; and the Ameri
can people can just take that fact or leave A.
me integrity Of the principle Of the national
protection of migratory birds is OF tremendous
Importance to American consumers OF cereals
Irult and vegetables, and especially the mil.
hons OF the poor. Several years ago the an.
n aea loss 70 those crops from destructive IN
seots was the enormous sum OF s420, 900 900.
can remember when farmers did not know
~nat IL was to spray apple tree Now 81.
operations!
IT Is the duty Of every sensible citizen to
etop the waste OF natural resources, and the
vast, waste OF the products of labor. Every robin
klled In the South by negro. or in the North
oy an Italian, Polish or Hungarian Iaborer
means rise In the cost of oatmeal and applea'
with the passing OF the grosbeaks. we nav
more for potatoes. With the slaughter Of
quaii and swallows in Texas and the cotton
t9elt generally, the fool cotton planters gather
less cotton per acre. and pay higher for help.
A. the Spring-shooters OF Kansas CITY and
s Ule seventeen champions In the United
STATES senate do succeed in having orr hest
bird law declared unconstitutional then nav
we get out our sackcloth anG put 1t on: and r.
81 Etc., Reed .s of Western Missouri succeeds
t ~ ni n.nt, Inc proposed treaty with Canada
wild birds long farewell u oiu our
Meanwhile. what is the average cjt,zen 90
ing 70 DO about 1t? Is he going to do yhinS,