Show DEFENDING THE 45PAEEOWS1 Tic 8 Birds Find a strontr Champion I His Views Totte Editor of THK HsaAtn JWiSb that I could write as I feel in regard to the course taken against the EngJiah sparrow If 1 could I would make the crimson blush of shame roiint to the very roots of your hair Those I mean that offer rewards to the boys that yil the most sparrows And those that call themselves men gun in hand prowling around other peoples premises shooting at and killing sparrows rows and endangering the laves of more respectable citizens If such peo pie had gajs d through the same ex perience nt I have undergone in the last two years with a broken and barfly set leg and thereby compelled to sit watch and study the habits of the much tradured sparrow and other birds to pass awaythe time they might be better bet-ter posted and have learned from actual observation that the sparrow is a perfect per-fect gormandirer and that he wilt not eat fruit nor vegetables of any kind but is constantly on the search through trees shrubs around fences and in every conceivable place where worms and insects may be found which anyone any-one can see if he will take the pains to look As for fighting among themselves them-selves they take the cake bakery and all And as to their fighting and drv ing away other birds I positively i deny itfor in all my watching I have never seen such a thing transpire though I Lave in my lot every reason some six or seven different varieties ot birds including in-cluding the robin and what I call the hawk bill any one of which will eat and destroy more fruit in one b mr than a thousand sparrows would do in n lifetime life-time even if they lived to the age of MethiKcIeh 1 have always butts tauahl and believed that nothing eras created tn vain not even a deputy marshal mar-shal therefore I consider it wrong to destroy cither beast bird or insect that does not injure us But sass one so and so says that the sparrows destroy fruit and will not eat a worm or insect of any kind if it is pushed down their throats There are always two sides to a question If a person says to you that your neighbor is a bad man do as those do that clamor for the destruction of the sparrows Never stop to ask yourself question is the rumor trim or false but slip around to jour neighbors neigh-bors or anjpne you may chance to meet and in sotto voce say Do you ou know that we have got a bad titan in our Ward Why no says the person addressed Who is iU Well I do not know his name probable you nayoseen him He lives in the Eighteenth I Eigh-teenth Ward wears long black beard dresses in black and iasa l limping gae > K Obi thats the fellow is itT 1Pal Bayou kpoWUlatlalwavs though I he was a bad man Let that kind of thing co on f Belittle while and the man is looked upon by nearly everyone every-one in the neighborhood as A bad man and not fit to live in decent society Qn the same principle omq ignorant ignor-ant or malicious per pn 11fs down with the Mormons the cry Is taken up bv the same class throughout tho world and the cry tides forth down with them r retry them they are > not tit to he never < iping to lUak any inquiry as to thefrgood or bad qualities but say as the United EtatiJroseqnlIng Attorney Attor-ney many did in the argument before the Supreme ConrC in ICb Snow case htr would have been infinitely better the Moriponsj s my bad been put to the 5wordr ad9tegd f sarin as A M Gibson did in tjisJaXRument before the House commute pn the neit FAi mnnds bill J i know wfiereof I s eitlC have traversed theTcrnlbry of tjt t7 from Jdaho to Arizona andhavc visited every principal sejtlejnent within jfa borders 1 haVe freejv tingled wUhaM Classes have Wen tUlgbest 61 the r Hand H-and have share tie fruffa hfeatol the poor I haf jatt ped their local and general confer ncwfiSi Alii vIsitedd J their schools I bove made long journeys jour-neys in companywUb = migrants and have lived in barn withMormon cowboys cow-boys 1 bmre oBserved all phases of Ii7p anionc these people and unhesitatingly unhesitating-ly afQrrn that in general intelligence thrift sobriety honesty and 1ood mop his 1 have never met their eriuals Their religion is not ostentnlibus but iti is marled byjsimpjipity of faith earnestness earn-estness of purpose and unswerving confidence con-fidence heir I loya ty their devotion to government is unqualified Dotter Dot-ter citizens a more worthy and rtcsrr ing people cannot be found within t g borders of this Republic Which is the better policy to cry mad dor because be-cause someone else cries mad dog or investigate srtd know for yourself whether the Spit is mad or not Men killing the parrots by shooting and en angering peoples lives is bad enough but when persons offer rewards re-wards and newspaper try and encourage encour-age hors to kill birds and destroy their nests I think that is going too far In mj boyhood days my pirpnU taught miUiut t it wds wiCketl td kill birds or rob Ibpir IIfstllmd I inturn have taught my cbldrcn hf ssnsc thing and 1 believe be-lieve most peo > Ie have done tp saute and oar children are tUJht in day and Sabbath schools that such tJniKsnre wrong Then what npii has any HUC to try and induce children to disobey their iiaronia I say no one If children chil-dren are encouraged to kill one cla a of birds they will kill another aiW uch things create vicious habits uJ I want mv children to crow up with kind and tender feeling fbr all of Gods creatures and have some nnder landing of lUtice and right tbat when they become men and women and perchance called upon to jjdge between man and man their finer fe luigs may not be bhinttd nor their st use ot right warped booing what is notinght The doing of aiual evil leadsto Beater A boy that is induced to rob a birds nest or kill a bird contrary to his parent wishes may occupy a felons cell forTobbing and killing his fellow man I say let us teach our boys to be kind to all of Gods creatures and ba honorable honest and j fast to all mankind A 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