The Alaska daily empire., 1920-05-27
FAKIR HORNADAY PROVES THE CHARGE
 AGAINST HIMSELF

Writing the letter head of the Perman i'd Life Protection Fund, which, in addition irving the name of w. T. Hornaday at the h the Board of Trustees, bears the names of lsse Sage, George Eastman, Henry Ford, Andr rnegie and other donors to the foundation flu otests against The Empires comment on the dei Clarence Thompson from injuries received fir bear in the following letter:
 New York, May II, 1920. The Editor of The Alaska Daily Empire,
 Juneau, Alaska.
 Sir:
 My attention has been called to the article in your newspaper of April 26, giv ing the distressing details of the death of Clarence Thompson from injuries received from bear while out hunting. l deeply regret the death of MI. Thompson. and also his failure to kill the bear before it at tackled him.
 Ordinarily, I do not answer newspaper attacks that are made upon me personally, because I believe that the public has little interest in personal controversies. l will, therefore, pass by in silence the very harsh and quite uncalled for epthets which you So freely applied to throughout your article. l will not, however, permit the principle Involved to go undefended.
 Whenever unfortunate accident cident occurs, 1t Is one of the frailties of human nature that mo matter whether any second party is to blame not, efforts i'm
 
 upon someone, matter how remote far-fetched the effort may be. In this case you go to ridiculous extremes to place up 'on conservationists in general. and the dersigned in particular, burden of blame for the fact that MT Thompson went out hunting. failed to kill the bear that he found, and was unfortunately killed by the animal, under particularly distressing cir cumstances
 Just why 1 shoud be blamed for MT. Thompson's unsuccessful hunting, and his fatally poor shooting, is hard to account for under the rules of common sense: but that fact does not seem to trouble you in the least. MT. Thompson armed according to his own best judgment and he for bear. If his shooting had been good, there would have been brown bear less to trouble the -$people of Alaska. No law stood in the way of MT. Thompson in his hunting efforts, and no conservationst was to blame because MT Thompson failed to kill tae bear.
 No conservationist of my acquaintance believes for one moment that a man should not have all possible rights to defend him self against dangerous wild beasts when he is either attacked or threatened with attack. The law permits every resident& of Alaska, and also every visitor. who wishes to take out a hunting license to kill three brown bears every year. This being the case. l ask you to tell me why under the sun there are too many brown bears living in Alaska to suit the people of Alaska? The brown and grizzly bears of Alaska are not immune. Inasmuch the brown bears and grizzly bears of Alaska are so obnox- ious to the people of that country, why do not the of Alaska get their guns, go after the bears and kill three each year until the alleged surplus is reduced? Sure ly there are a thousand men in Alaska who are able to hunt bears with safety to them- seyes: and if that is the case the legal bag limit would permit the killing of 5000 bears every year unti the bears exterminated 4Yous have your remedy Why do you