Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-03-21

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Maine. Do you know, gentlemen, that
If the state of Massachusetts could
be picked right up by its four cor
ners, the whole great state of Massa-
chusetts, and dropped right here in
the wild lands of Maine, that from
either edge of Massachusetts out to
cleared land would be 40 miles? You
know that we have got domain
there that is tremendous, to which
under proper restriction we can in
vite the real hunters of the whole
world, and we can just as certain
perpetuate the game there, so that
your grandchildren can know by ac-
tual observation what the front
| teeth of a beaver look like. We can
assure that just as we'll as we can
assure them of the fact that there
! will be timber trees standing there
if the rules of forestry are observed.
Now there is q sterile zone around
every city in the State of Maine to-
day where the ignorant and untu-
| tored have shot the song bird off.
And do you know that if they were
! protected as they should be, every
street in every city that has trees
in it would furnish an orchestral
! chorus to you if you were walking
down the street just after sunrise OF
many mornings, and the number ana
( variety of birds you would near IL
your ear We're attuned to 1t Is SIM
! ply astounding.
Gentlemen, the progress of civiliza-
J =; arf,
during the last two years have sound
ed the doom of great game. You
know that the moose is q contempt
| rary of the great elk of Ireland. Inc
moose is an animal of an age that IS
long past. He is one OF the anumais
cotemporaneous with the mtlllh@
away of the Elacicr-the ice age. \
pair Of them produce one young IN a
year. The moose is Il TREMENDOUS
great target. l never shot a moose
, hut he is a terrible temptation to an
unlicensed and unrestrained man
who is in the woods. and even no"
in the close time all that wander out
to the edge of the woods are pretty
sure to meet with sudden death. me
majority of them when killed are not
used. They are shot and lie Geao
and rot because the coward that Shot
the moose is too much OF coward
to so back at night and even cut CUT
! any of the meat and take it to his
house or camp: but the progress OF
civilization has spelled the doom Of
the large game for this reason: \
man can leave Boston at noon OF a
SATURDAY and be in the heart of the
CnnfoN morn
ing. One of the greatest Of the tim
berland concernS-remembcr this has
not n railroad on it, (referring to
map), it is the so-caiied trunk me
of the State of Maine-one OF 'he
greatest concerns in the business
have built from Masardis in .Nroos-
took county an automobile boulevard
right through to the Seven lslanos
in the Saint John river; and you TURN
a crew in a hired automobile into'the
heart Of those woods. and just as
Grant cut the confederacy in tw"
and reduced it in sections. SO WIN
those high powered repeating rifles
J establish a dead line where the deer
can go neither north or south, ana
where they are rapidly approaching
extinction.
Now maybe the game is not worth
nreserying. You are spending lot
Of money to educate your children
and in the schools they are by the
most hldicrous artificial propositions
trying to teach the children 10 De oo-
serving. Our boys and girls can he
! taught more in 20 minutes IN 'he
! woods about being observing "heh
it is absolutely necessary to notice IN
order to get back to the camp that
il is a hemlock beside blrch Where
they turned to the left. and spruce
beside a birch where they turned W
tho right Your children can be
taught infinitely more in half an hour
| of that very splendid attainment q
tho human mind in the woods under
The right tutelage than they can III
term after term at school You JUST
| start it right and he child VIII 90
he rest. You have not got to give
/ him line upon line and precept upon
| precept on anything except the mora
/ nroposition. You start the child right
and the mind will develop just as
the flower develops. So much for the
! citizen!
! Is the game worth preserving from
| a financial point OF view? On l
suppose it makes a man glow WIN
, pride to bring down an English spar
row with his shotgun. l suppose ne
swells back to the day when ms an
cestor was cave-man and sic" the
saber -toothed tiger. But they come
into the State of Maine by tnon-
sands, and they bring their children.
to show them. forsooth. where the req
deer comes down in the evening TO
drink, and call their attention to the
, wonderful
At this point the Senate came IN
and q ioint convention was FORMED.
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