Show THE LAND League agents our rish American statesmen and our enthusiastically patriotic people have been unable in late years to pat England in the leastbut the solons of Massachusetts have at last discovered discov-ered a way in which to hit the blasted Britisher on a tender spot Last week in the old BayStite legislature a vigorous assault was made on the English sparrow and unless the storm can be checked the pugilistic little bird must soon depart from inhospitable shores of Massachusetts It was argued by the enemies to the English and the sparrows that the latter was causing caus-ing great dam + tge to the crops nearly half the apple crop of last year having been destroyed by them that the little wretch had driven away the song birds and was a rogue and a nuisance generally gener-ally without a solitary good char cteristic In view of the large irish vote in Massachusetts we are led to believe that perhaps this war upon the sparrow is born of a spirit of retaliation against the mother government for its positive refusal to let the Celts II run the country in their own peculiar way Out here in the west we are Wellpleased with the sparrow His fighting proclivities may be so like those of the people herabouts that Le is not disliked on account 01 them and nobody has yet discovered that he is injurious to crops on the contrary con-trary the farmers and horticulturists horticultur-ists really believe the sparrow is their best friend |