The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-19

shoulder alone the burden of Alaskan game administration and protection. We sincerely hope that friends in Alaska will not insist upon unqualified home rule and home support for Alaskan game.
 
 Mr George D. Pratt has done some fgur- ing the Alaskan situation and has eX- pressed the opinion that $20o,000 per year would be required from Congress and the United States Treasury to provide for the paying of the salaries and official expenses of force of game wardens really adequate to protect the game of Alaska as it should be protected.
 Already there number of conserva- tionists who ill that view, and it is quite certain that the Eastern sportsmen and naturalistS who are interested in the preservation of the game Of Alaska are prepared to ask Congress for a much larger appropriation than $25,0o0 per Answering the complaint of Aaskans that the men of the East who most interested in Alaskan game matters never have been in Alaska and are rot familiar with conditions" pr. Hornaday replies:
 To this we reply that among the Eastern men who sincerely interested ill the wei fare of the people and game of Alaska there are many men who have been 10 that Ter ritory and that the subject is not involved in impenetrable mystery.
 Paying tribute to the Alaska Fish and Game Club of Juneau and the work it has done. also, admitting that the people of Alaska are, after all not simply thirsty for the blood of the game animals of the Ter ritory, Dr. Hornaday says:
 For the first time in the history of Alaska, far aware, a group of Alaskan men have made systematic effort to gather information throughout Alaska concerning game conditions and necessities. This effort has been made by the Alaska Fish and Game Club of Juneau. Unques- tionably the facts ii is gathering twill throw much light on the situation
 4 tWthstanding all that has been said f and printed concerning lawlessness in the < killing of game in Alaska, there is not the slightest evidence to show that the people of Alaska are in any way different from the people of New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana California.
 
 We believe that all existing questions af fecting game can be settled and easily set tied, by getting together with the serious minded men of Alaska, like Delegate Suth- crand in a spirit of good fellowship put ting all the cards upon the table, and from them figuring out what really out to be done.
 Concerning the brown bear of Alaska Dr. Horn day says:
 The controversy now raging over the protection of the Alaskan brown bears be resolved by ten lines of sensible and ade- quate regulation permitting the killing of the dangerous surplus. The gulf that is widening between the people of Alaska and the sportsmen from without should be per mitted to close, because there is good reason for its continued existence. The editorial shows wide difference between the attitude of Dr. Iornaday and a year ago, and the change has been for the better. It is quite evident that the agitation that has been made more or less for the last year is bearing fruit However, in spite of the contrition of the erst- while champion of the brown bears, the people of Alaska are likely to continue to insists that the game problems of Alaska to be settled by the people of Alaska and Congress. If the New York propaganda societies. endowed Eastern trophy hunters should be pleased with the final results it will be well and good If otherwise, We should worry.