The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-04
LET THE PEOPLE RULE
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 w n Hornadav director of New York Zoolog cal Park. has been flooding the country with propa ganda paid for by rich Eastern sporsmen C), oppos ing the passage of Sulzer game bill, now before Congress Last nights News-Miner contained copy of the newspaper dope being mailed to every paper in the States and from private advices received IF Fairbanks the members of Congress, Senators and heads of all departments are being deuged with elegrams and letters protest from people who are accepting the of Hornaday and other would be sportsmen who have never set foot in Alaska and whose ideas of big game hunting is to employ Q dozen guides. cooks, packhorses; equip themselves with Fifth Avenue shooting ogs, obtain special per mission slaughter game for the benefit of some benefactors and "big game" hunters; leaving meat to spoil in the hlls-all they desire are the heads and skins.
 mittee on Territories held in Washington February 26th, 1918, and in answer to MT Sulzer's question MT. Hornaday. you familiar with conditions ex sting north of the 62nd parallel?"
 MT. Hornaday Yes; l have a library of books written by men who have been in Alaska, and maga zine articles and quantities of letters, and have in terviewed a great number of Alaska men, and l am in receipt of letters all the time from men in Alaska about game conditions.
 Mr. Sulzer: Can you state for the benefit Of the committee any persons who have been in Alaska north of 62 degrees for any considerable period ot time who familiar with the range of the caribou that opposed to this measure%
 MT Hornaday: Yes will name Judge Wicker sham for Judge Wckersham told me this morn ing that in his opinion, instead of there being 100 900 caribou in that portion of Alaska, now, in h' opinion there not more than 5000"
 MT Bemore Brown. who claimed to have as cended Mt Mckinley but who never proved it tc Alaskans, introduced to the committee and ram beld through six pages of contradictory statements, finally admitting that he had never paid much atten tion to the game in the country except as he and his party needed fresh meat, and stating that they had trouble in obtaining their needs
 MT Marshall Scull President Williams Club oi Philadelphia, introduced by Mir. Hornaday with this statement: MT. Scull is Alaskan bigga hunter and has written of the most interesting books Alaskan hunting and wild life that has been published"
 n Fairbanks having read anything written by MT Scul touching on caribou in the Fairbanks district?
 MT Charles Sheldon of the Boone and Crocket; Club well and favorably known to the people Of Fairbanks made the following statement before the committees
 Now gentlemen what is sought to be accom- plished by this Sulzer law? It is nothing less than principle of justice It seeks to give the peo pie needed meat without impairing the game supply That is what is behind the Sulzer law. The question is can we find means of giving justice those people up there?"
 MT Hornaday admits that he has never been in Alaska obtaining his information from magazines anG books written by big game hunters" who know noth ing of existing conditions MT Bemore Browne has been in the foothills of Mt. Mckinley Mr Marshall Scull is supposed to have written authoratve book on Alaska game, but none of have ever had the pleasure of perusing i-yet they have the efrontery to pose authorities game in Alaska
 MT Hornaday in his press article states that the sportsmen and defenders of big game in New York were dumfounded when they discovered that game had been sold in Alaska since 1902 the time of the passage of the present game laws which he admits drawn up by members of Eastern sportsmens s clubs, and further states that someone ran joker in the bill which has been construed to allow the selling of game
 It is up to the people of Alaska to make a vgor- ous protest through every possible source to offset the statements of little coterie of wouldbe spors men who think they know it all, and who are selfish to the core in their desire to interfere with the rights or the peope or this Territory who doing all in their power to develop it's resources
 Our Delegate in Congress is doing everything in his power to pass this law which will enable us to conserve our game resources and it is up to the people to back him up with affdavits of responsible people to the estimated number of caribou their usual rate of increase and such other information which would enable him combat this running of tbe country by Eastern would-be sports
 Let the people rule!