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In Pennsylvania the laws cannot protect the Susque- 

 hanna River, because the laws of Maryland interfere 

 with it. The people have the weirs set the whole sea- 

 son, and catch a large amount of fish. There is a dam 

 across the Susquehanna, and the law requires that they 

 shall make ladders for the fish to go up and spawn, and 

 men will take a lono" strino- and attach a shinincr sub- 

 stance to the end of it, so that it will dangle over the 

 ladder, and the bright surface will keep the fish from 

 going up, for they keep away from bright surfaces, and 

 thus they prevent the object of the law. Every man 

 wants local interests protected by laws graded so as to 

 cover the entire State, and we have to fight off a 

 number of laws prejudicial to other laws, and you will 

 all find the same thing to contend against." 



" In the large cities and near by you can bring the 

 law to bear, but in the outlying districts you cannot do 

 this, unless you can bring the people to understand that 

 they are thereby protecting their best interests. They 

 prefer to get people up there to board who catch the 

 fish, and they make more money in this way. We can 

 enforce the laws if we can convince them that by pro- 

 tecting the fish and allowing them to increase they can 

 make more money thereby." 



