Show I An Appeal To Sportsmen If 1 Keep Market Hunters Out of Our Game Covers b ee r e Unit United eel Ac Action t i on Necessary following appeal addressed sed to all al lovers of ot wild wid life line has Just ben beets 1 issued b by John IJ IL I Burnham president of or tho tire American Game Garo Protective association of at New York City the sportsmens sportsmen's national organization requesting their united opposition to that havo hav been made of or late to modify or suspend nd the laws law designed to protect game on the plea pica that thal the food tood situation demands such uch action An Insidious propaganda engineered by hy tho those o who wire hope to profit b by it has han been In existence In this country for some time now nos' now designed designer to open the tire gamo amo covers CO of the nation naton to the market hunter under tire the plea that the war ar necessitates letting down the bars hals on game to replenish the theod od od supply rhIle some respectable people have ha he been led under en un er a misapprehension of or facts Into espousing this movement mo It derives Its major Impetus froni froh the tho commercial dealers denler In genie game ame allied with man many lar c hotels who long for a return of oC tho the good old days when the they catered to the appetite ap up- petite of the epicure with wih game furnished by hy dealers denIers who maintained an arm army of oC shooters from rom coast to coast American game gme tottered on the brink of or extinction when sportsmen and other lovers ers of or wild life lre arose In their might and demanded and se secured secured se- se cured tho the passage of or laws s forbidding UN Its taleThe tale ale The false lse logic cd to bolster bobler a shameless propaganda which has not hesitated to use uso the sacred cause of or patriotism an as a shield anra Is re revealed re- re in a recent editorial expression of oC the Courier Journal of or Louisville Louis Louis- vie nIle ville Ky To suspend the fish and laws that game gamo sas says publication would be like deciding to kill Idl all al of oC the hors hogs and cattle at nt once cisco to avert CIt starvation stara- stara tion ton before feeling the tho pangs of hunger funger thus Insuring shortage at a later period when hunger might be bo felt The Tho writer Insists that there should be a rigid continuance of or the tho con conservation of or fish and game same and cites the tire Indisputable tact that the tiso laws do not prevent pre the tire use of oC any sort of or fish or 01 game which Is in existence In sufficient supply to be useful Moreover It Is IB declared that thit I existing laws are arc designed to protect tho the source of oC supply and permit the tire use of or the supply The article artcle In question agrees with this association that sinister Influences are arc behind the tho proposals that have ha been Iha made e. e It closes with I these words word which should be lie taken takers to lo heart b by everyone Interested wih in the saving of or wild wid lre life A legislator wishing to make capital upon one hand baird as a n patriot and upon the other as an advocate ad o of tire the people whom ho could represent as being hard pressed for food could make n a facile acle speech de demanding tic tic- manding the abolition or suspension of fish anti and laws game fare Shortsighted Short sighted persons persona would commend him and Indorse the tIre repeal of ot tho the protective pro pro- laws for the period of or tho he war var The Thc conservationists If IC the they would defeat a misguided r response to an Insincere effort to get the protective laws suspended should be up and doing In every even state B By vigilance only can rn they avert Het what would b bo be tho the undoing needlessly of or all al that h hits has been done one during the last twenty five years ears to 0 prevent pre ent the tire extermination of or game ame Conser Conservationists ts or organized nerd and unorganized should address at once those having h to do with the ire enactment and enforcement of protective laws lawa voicing their sentiments lYe We have isae yet to hear of a single Individual connected with the conservation conservation con con- movement who approves relaxation of oC the wild life protective wid In JI laws ws vs |