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William T. Hornaday, campaigning
tlustee for the Permanent Wild Life
Protection fund, has been carrying on
a merry warfare with most all of the
editors of Alaska over his conserva
tion theories in regards to the Alaska
brown bear and the Alaskan eagles.
While not agreeing with Dr. Horn
aday in his theories, his letter, ask
ing the people of Alaska to hear his
side of the story, is cheerfully print
ed herwith:
To the Editor of the Daily Times.
For the first time in twenty-two
years of active work for the conserva
tF% of wild life, I feel inclined to ask
the public to consider a personal
statement. This is rendered neces
sary by the acts of a New York man
an Alaska editor who seem dis
posed to do me up.
When an elderly gentleman of the
“retired” class butts into a private
fight between grown men, hitting
him back is a painful task; but when
you are busy in a fight, and a retired
party slips to your enemies a new clut
with which to knock you out, can you
entirely ignore the little token of
friendship?
On Feb. 15, 1920, we published a
perfectly good pamphlet entitled, “A
New Game Act for Alaska,” which
was honestly intended to promote for
Alaskan game better protection and
more perfect utilization.
Previous to that printing, the com
pleted manuscript was placed in the
^^Jiands of the chairman and chief of
ficer of the New York Zoological So
ciety, an organization that for twen
ty-three years I have had the honor
to serve, and also to represent, in
the field of wild life protection.
For eighteen years, Mr. Madison
Grant, chairman, has been keenly in
terested in the welfare of Alaskan
game. In submitting the manuscript
to him, I merely followed my regu
lar custom regarding new campaign
work. Mr. Grant kept the manuscript
for a week, read it carefully, sugges
ted several improvements in form (all
of which were carried out) and the re
vised text duly appeared.
Instead of being taken in Alaska
in a friendly spirit, in some quarters
it was received with hostility and vi
tuperation. Mr. John W. Troy, editor
^of The Juneau Emipre promply ent
ered upon a vigorous campaign of
•*. name-calling. Mr. Thomas W. Drayton
of Seward, published a silly falsehood
(made by him out of nothing) and
Governor Riggs set about procuring
and publishing letters from “the east”
intended to discredit me with the peo
ple of Alaska. I understand that this
effort reached and was reflected in
many of the newspapers of Alaska.
I have in my possession a specimen
copy of the letter that Mr. Riggs
stun, uui iu many eastern conserva
tionists” denouncing me according to
his lights and inviting them to say
what they think of me.
Mr. Riggs’ campaign elicited noth
ing to his purpose save one letter,
which was furnished to him by Mr.
George B. Grinnel, once editor of the
“Forest and Stream,” and now pres
ident of the Boone and Crockett club.
Paragraphs extracted from two other
letters stating that my pamphlet had
not been brought up for formal con
sideration were displayed by Troy as
bona-fide “repudiation!” Grinnell’s
letter was printed in the Juneau Em
pire (and I know not how many other
Alaskan papers) on June 11, under
this scare head:
“Hornaday Repudiated By Big
New York Sportsmen’s Clubs
On Alaskan Game Activities”
Now, I wish to look the people of
Alaska squarely in the eye and tell
them this.
That scare-head is wholly false
and misleading, and without any
foundation in facts. No New York
^Sportsmen’s Club nor any other club,
big or little, has ever “repudiated”
N me; and this outrageous misrepre
r sentation will deceive no one in the
United States— and least of all in
Congress. The falsehood is based
solely upon the letter of one indi
vidual (Mr. Grinnell) and the insane
hatred of John W. Troy, editor of The
Juneau Empire.
The chief features of the one letter
of “repudiation” (Mr. Grinnell’s)
were as follows:
1. —It opened by a reference to
Hornaday’s “statements and misstate
ments.
2. —It declared very positively that
“he does not represent the views of
the Boone and Crocket Club nor any
other organization with which I am
acquainted.”
3. —It said that Hornaday “repre
sents himself and a proportion of the
sentimentalists of the country, most
of whom are women and children.”
-4.—Mr. Grinnel advised his readers
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not to take Hornaday “seriously” nor
“solemnly.”
Inasmuch as Mr. Grinnell refuses to
! make an honorable amend for his high
ly improper letter, I must set his house
in order for him. In one important
particular he has seriously misrepre
j sented me to the people of Alaska. I
i 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 No. 6, Mr.
Hornaday represents two powerful
organizations, both of them well '
known to Mr. Grinnell. One is the
Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund
of 72 exceptionally fine conservation
ists. The other is the New York Zoo
logical Society, which 18 years ago
actively entered upon a campaign for ,
the proper protection of Alaskan game.
For 20 years Mr. 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 Avliat I had done in
carrying out the policies of the society. <
I Most of the principles set forth in my
pamphlet are as old as the society,
and I enter upon no neAV campaign
Avithout first securing the full approv
j 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 (very mild) dis
approval of the systematic extermin
ation of certain Alaskan bear species,
and my opposition to the sale of
game. Now, my stand on those two «
subjects is in 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 its *
“views” against the Alaskan demand
for the extermination of the brown
bear. Now, Mr. 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. 3
Fourth.—Mr. Grinnel says that I j
represent a “portion of the sentimen
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
I reverse of the impression that Mr. '
Grinnell intended to convey. The
Permanent Fund contains 72 found
ers and subscribers (59 men, 11 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” (!) had the courage to back
up conservation principles with $103,
000 in cash as an endowment fund to
sustain its ideas and its 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, Mr. Editor, is my answer,
| once and for all time, to the attacks
; of Mr. Troy and Mr. Riggs, aided by
j my dear old friend (?) George B. Grin
I nel. Heretofore, it has been my fixed
j 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, I j
will thank you gratefully.
WILLIAM T. HORNADAY.
New York, August 18, 1920.
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