Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-08
"BREEDING BOLSHEVISTS"

ing Bolshevists," the current
issue of the magazine. I'm
| The Open" official organ or the Wild
! Life League, protests against the
closing of streams and wild land to
the fisherman and the hunter In
the Open" would widen the privilege
of angling and cunning, but at the
same time would have the Legisla-
| ture enact a new trespass law.
which, while protecting the rights
| of the people TO fish and hunt,
would at the same time absolutely
protect the rights of land owners
by providing proper punishment of
those who damage property. Con-
tinuing the editorial quoted says:
The landowner who. for his
own private pleasure or that or
his friends. thus confiscates the
property of all the people is
as dangerous an enemy to these
United states as the BolsheVist,
who breaches on the street cor
ner the doctrine that the work
ingmcn should control the indus
tries TO the exclusion of the real
owners or the plants. In fact
| HE is A BOLSHEVIST in princi-
pie and in action, for he NM
self is participating actively in
a wholesale confscation OF other
| peoples property. which Is
neither lawful nor American.
| In misusing a mere statute 10
violate the constitution of the
| great Commonwealth or rem
/ Vania, to steal from the people
their rights. to set aside for
himself and his associates the
| sole right to take the game. for
| the protection and increase OF
which all the sportsmen OF the
state have been paying a sPec,a,
| tax, he has made OF hlmseII an
| inciter of Bolshevism.
| The statute, which is 'belns
used as a cloak to these thelts
of public rights and Liberties.
is to-day the most unpopu,tSaIr iST ST
on the books and 1T MCSI BE
! MODIFIED AT ONCE.
The writer makes a good point
The constitution of the State o1
PENNSYLVANIA says that the fish and
game belong to the people, and tha'
heing so they should have every OPP
nortunity to hunt and fish. we mao
an example of the selfishness of GER
tain owners in Dauphin county las
Spring when an effort was made te
close the best piece of hunting ane
fishing land in Central Pennsylvania
on the flimsy pretext of protecting
n water supply. The effort failed
but it illustrates the constant vigil
ance the people must use to preVen
invasion of their constitutions
rights.
In Pennsylvania we have mucf
wild land and many streams tina
iare fit only to provide a days spor
for the lover of trout fishing. IL
addition, we spend thousaRds of dol
lars eachyear for the propagation o.
fish and game and the stocking o
the streams and the woods. Thi
must be for the benefit of all thu
people, and no such methods a:
those used in Europe, where i'm
mense preserves are maintained TO
the use of the rich TO the exclusion
of the poor, will ever prevail here
The Wild Life League. is right. Th'
fishing and hunting privilege mus
be widened rather than narrowed
land if the present tre5pass law stand
in the way then it must give wa,
and be replaced by another that VIII
protect the rights of all concerned
: Restrictions of the rights of fishin
: and hunting would breed discon
tent as few other forms of repres
= sion, selfshness and greed would b
likely to do, if the people woul
, stand for a policy. of that kinC
which they wont.