The Alaska daily empire., 1920-09-08
DIR. HORNADAY'S LATEST OUTBREAK.

Dr. w T. Hornaday has published a statement of the Permanent Wild Life ProtectionA Fund" in which he gives considerable space to Alaska matters including his famous Gnfamous?) Bulletin Nc. 6, first published last February. Like nearly everything that from the pen tongue of Dr. lornaday it is filled with untruths false accusations Iaisrepresentaons, direct and by inuendo and half truths that said to be the worst of lies.
 pr. Hornaday represents the people of Alaskt to be interested in game from sordid, commercial mo tive. He says they desire the extermination the brown bears for the profit that would follow their killing. He the sulzer Bill prepared the in- stance and with the approval of the Fairbanks Com mercial Club, designed to eommercalize the game of Alaska. He again declares that The Empire accused him of having the blood of Clarence Thomp- sen on his hands. He classfcs Charles Sheldon, who appeared before Congress in behalf of the Suzer Bill citizen of Fairbanks and a representative of it's Commercial Club for the purpose, of course Of making it appear that of the big game hunters sportsmen and members of outdoor clubs in the East in favor of the Suzer Bill He slurringy of the faet that Gov. Riggs when member of the Engineering Commission purchased 5000 pounds of game meat at Nenana in season to feed the 1000 or so workingmen employed the railroad 8 few meals apiece of fresh And he declares And this is at the rail head. with railway line in operation to tidewater" refers to Wickersham as the Delegate from Alaska at time when he was not He speaks insinuatingy of the unseatng of Delegate Sulzer, without mentioning that Delegate Sulzer was trumphantly reelected, the Dele gate from Alaska at the time of his death, April 15 1919
 These are only few of the direct untruths mis- representations and halftrushs that appear in his book They in keeping with bis attitude when he appeared before Congress and declared according to his reliable Alaskan authority there were less than 5,G00 caribou in Alaska (IIis reliable authority" he admitted Judge Wiekcraham,l They are in keeping with his letter the Editor of the Empire and to the Editor of the oregonian, and his other newspaper articles
 No people in the world more sincerely in- terested in the protection of than the people Of Alaska No who have ever had anything to do with Alaska interested in the protec- ton of game than Delegate Sulzer during his lifetime, or than have been and Gov. Riggs and Charles Sheldon. Charles Sheldon is big game hunter ot New York. member of the Boone and Crockett Club, and Washington deyoting uu- remiting labor worker at $l a year when he appeared before Congress and was not and never lad been citizen of Fairbanks though he had prob ably spent more time in Alaska as big game hunter than any other biz game hunter in the word.) Dele gate Sulzer, when member of the Territorial Sen ate, introduced a bill that became law which re quires the payment of s15 the Alaska treasury tax money paid in there by Alaskaus, for each wolf killed in the Terriory-a measure adopted for the protection Of CDr IIornlday. the other hand wants beasts and birds Of prey protect,d) This law and the payments made under 1t, typify the sort of interest people Alaska have in tine game Of the Territory. Doesn't Dr. Hornaday's desire 10 protect brown bears and eagles typify the sort Of interest he has?
 Delegate sulzcr's Fairbanks game bin was moi