The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-26

bitterly of the impossibility to en- force the game laws of Alaska with
 the $25,000 a year maintenance fund
 One of the chief objects of the Suth- erland bill is to take protection of Alaskan game out of politics, and that happens to be the very feature to which the irreconcilables of Alaska are most bitterly opposed-the conclu- sion is obvious. We, who have been in the conservation game for twenty l five years or more, know full well 1 that there is no game warden so utter | ly worthless as one who has been se- | lected by politician and appointed to pay political debt. All such war dens are worse than none at all, for the simple reason that the first i'm pulse of a political warden is to take care of his friends and keep up his political fences. It is possible that you, and those who think like you, cannot see this.
 The people of Alaska need not worry about the temporary tenure of office of the Secretary of Agriculture, or the fact that the secretary himself has not been to Alaska and personally in terviewed it's game The Biological Survey is absolutely permanent, and venture to say that ther is no man in Alaska who knows Alaska game and game conditions, as Dr. E. w. Nell son knows them. It was Dr. Nelson who, as far back as 1884 discovered for the people of Alaska and the rest mountain sheep and it was another eastern naturalist, Dr. c. Hartman Merriam, who later discoverd the great Alaskan brown bears.
 The people of Alaska as whole never have distinguished themselves by their scientific interest in their wild animals, or by their anxiety to protect them from slaughter. A few of them always have desired that the right thing should be done now. l think that the majority of the voters of Alaska are really in earnest about the conservation of Alaskan game on a continuing basis of it's utilization for the greatest good for the greatest number.
 There are men in the Biological Sur q n conditions at first hand. They are men whose business it is to furnish the Secretary of Agriculture good ad- vice respecting Alaskan game. If there were no such men and no such bureau as the Biological Survey, then your contention about appointments made from Washington would have weight. The Sutherland bill has been framed partly for the purpose of talk ing Alaskan game protection com pletely out of the hands of the poli- ticians and conducting it on a basis of merit and efficiency. Does anyone think for a moment that the bill has
 been framed to give anybody po-
 litical advantage or to do anything
 else than to give the utmost benefit
 to the game and to the people of Alas
 ka who need the game.
 Of the politicians of Alaska will
 Of course the politicians of Alaska
 will fight the Sutherland Bill in Con gress, and seek to secure law which will make the conservation of Alas kan game the football of Alaskan poll tics. Possibly they can muster enough strength to hinder or defeat the pas
 sage of the Sutherland Bill. Thai would lead to further destruction ol Alaskan game, but the blame there fore would not be upon us.
 I am sorry that there is an impas sable gulf between your side and oul side. but that seems to be fact. However, the wild animals of Alas ka are not the only victims of toe much politics in Alaska.