The Cordova daily times., 1920-09-21

not to take Hornaday "seriously' nor | "solemnly."
 make an honorable amend for his high ly improper letter, must set his house in order for him. In one important particular he has seriously misrepre, sented me to the people of Alaska invite your attention to the following | facts
 First.-My red pamphlet contains not one misstatement" of any kind If it did, my Alaskan detractors joy ously would have cited it, long ago.
 Second.-In Bulletin Mo- 6, Mr. Hornaday represents two powerful organizations, both of them we'll known to MT. Grinnel1. One is the Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund of 72 exceptionally fine conservation ists. The other is the New York Zoo- logical Society, which IS years ago actively entered upon campaign for the proper protection of Alaskan game. For 20 years MT. Grinnel has sat upon the stage at the annual meetings of the society and heard me called upon to report upon the wild life protec- tiOn work of the society during the past year, and what I had done in carrying out the policies of the society," Most of the principles set forth in my pamphlet are as old as the society," and l enter upon no new campaign without first securing the full approv- al for it of the chairman of the execu- tive committee.
 Third-The chief cause of the feeling displayed against me in Alas ka is because of my Every mild) dis approval of the systematic extermin- and my opposition to the sale of game. Now, my stand on those two subjects is ill line with the views of the Boone and Crockett Club, as easily can be proven by published records. That club very recently collected and published in Forest and Stream" the adhesion of 61 clubs of American sportsmen sustaining it's "views" against the Alaskan demand for the extermination of the brown bear. Now, MT. Troy! Show me to- day more than four men in that club who will admit publicly that they now favor the sale of game in Alaska.
 Fourth.-Mr. Grinnel says that represent 'portion of the sentiment talists of the country, chiefly women and children" So far as I do repre- sent women and children, I am proud of my position; but the facts are the reverse of the impression that MT. Grinnell intended to convey. The Permanent Fund contains 72 found CTS and subscribers (59 men, II wom- en and two organizations), and I know of no stronger organization which con- tains a stronger group of experienced, working and sacrificing conservators of wild life. That group of "sentimen- talists" CD had the courage to back up conservation principles with $103,- 900 in cash as an endowment fund to sustain it's ideas and it's work; and that is the largest fund of the kind in existence save one.
 Finally I cheerfully leave Governor Riggs, Mr. Troy, Mr. Sheldon and the other sponsors of the Sulzer bill for the sale of game in Alaska, to judge whether I am to be taken "seriously" or not, in Alaska game conservation
 This, MT. Editor, is my answer, once and for all time, to the attacks of MT. Troy and MT. Riggs, aided by my dear old friend CD George B. Grin nel. Heretofore, it has been my fixed rule not to reply to personal abuse by my enimies; but this case is a class by itself. If you will give me my day in court through your columns, l will thank you gratefully.
 WILLIAM T. HORNADAY.
 New York, August IS, 1920.