DOOM OF SMALL
GAME FORETOLD
BYDR.HORNADAY
FLAYS RICH SPORTMEN; ACTION
BY CONGRESS IS HIS
DEMAND.
(For twenty-eight years, Dr. Wil
liam T. Hornaday, director of the
New York Zoological Park and
noted authority on wild life, has
sought, by written and spoken word,
and by pleading with legislators, to
crystallize sentiment for more dras
tic laws to save the dimniishing
stock of American birds and wild
animals from extinction. His efforts
'have won him international recogni
tion, and medals from a half dozen
organizations interested in wild (life.
Today he is about ready to give up]
the fight in despair. American wild
life, he feels, is doomed to destruc
tion, and nothing short of a miracle
can save it.)
By DR. WILLIAM T. HORNADAY.
NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—For one
hundred years or more, the pioneer
hunters, the sportsmen, the market
hunters and the game-hogs of
America have steadily hunted or
killed game in the fixed belief that
all the game of this nation belonged
to them. Sincerely and fixedly they
have believed that they had a right
to do by and unto the game as
they royally pleased.
To a very great extent in those
ranks that feeling exists today every
(bit as strongly as it did fifty years
ago, except that now about one
third of the killers admit that even
game has some rights that should
be respected, and that even ducks
are entitled to a square deal. Per
haps a big majority of the 6,000,000
sportsmen-hunters would elect to
think so—If we could only talk to
them face to face.
“Protection” Held Joke.
For fifty years the sportsmen of
the East and Middle West have
been regulating the killing of game,
and solemnly calling it “game pro
tection.” That de-si nation, however,
is a grim joke. If you or I lived
in a land inhabited by and gov
erned by giant gorillas who ate men,
and the garilla man-catchers elected
that humans should be killed and
eaten during only three months of
the year, we would call tihat a very
poor kind of man-“protection.” But
is not that the kind of “protection”
that our sportsmen boast that they,
and they “'alone,” have been giving
American game for fifty years?
Our American system of “game
protection” (!) is absurd, weak, ex
terminatory, and rotten to the core.
About ninety^five per cent of it
(outside of inviolate sanctuaries) is
merely regulated killing, and some
times very badly regulated at that.
We can scarcely say that our “sys
tem of protection” has broken down;
for we never had a real system!
All over the United States our
feathered game is being killed far
faster than it is multiplying, and
the rage for killing now amounts to
a national craze. Very soon the an
ual army of killers will carry 10,
000,000 guns!
Rabbit Alone Safe.
The areas of game-species extinc
tion, already enormous, are increas
ing and spreading in devastating
waves. Mighty little work has been
done in mapping the State areas of
extinction and spreading them be
fore the people. The subect is too
disagreeable! Look at the duck,
quail and wild turkey situations as
examples of the whole. The disap
pearance of big game like the elk,
bison and deer from farming and
grazing countries was unavoidable,
and w© charge up nothing on their
account, save against the men who
killed those animals in wicked
wastefulness of valuable products.
All the small gain© of the United
States except rabbits is headed
straight toward quick annihilation.
The annual killers of game form
tremendous armies which we believe
soon will outnumber the game.
When, as statistics slhow, a “good
game State” yields in a hunting
season only one quail to every five
hunters, only one duck to every five
hunters, and only one ounce of wild
gose meat to each hunter, it is a
ghastly joke to talk 'about game
“abundance” anywhere.
Interests Mislead Congress
Many men who are active in game
conservation matters, and especially
those interested in and influenced (by
the makers and dealers in guns and
ammunition, are kidding themselves,
and also the sportsmen nad law
makers, into the belief that “game
is abundant,” that “no reductions in
game-kiljin are at all necessary,”
and that “sanctuaries and public
shootin rounds” are the one great
remedy for the shortage of game.
Incidentally they hold that the
sanctuaries should be subject to
conversion into shooting grounds at
the "will of one easily-inifluence^ in
dividual. This is a great idea to
sell to Congress.
The Department of Agriculture
has for two years stubbornly main
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