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is small compared to the Delaware River, and that 

 laws which apply to the bay would not be suited as 

 well to the river. Still there is here an apparent 

 inconsistency, sufficient to affijrd an opportunity to the 

 carping critic. Unfortunately, the faults in the fish 

 and game laws are ever being paraded before the pub- 

 lic. What is true of the law protecting food fish is 

 also true, in a measure, of the laws protecting fish 

 whose principal use is to afford sport for the angler, 

 and what is true of fish is also true of game. Thus, in 

 New Jersey, on account of its geographical position, 

 there is a continual contention between the gunners of 

 the northern and of the southern part. The former 

 want an early open season, and the latter prefer to do 

 their shooting later, and both are right, for there is a 

 difference of two or three weeks in the seasons between 

 the two sections. No matter how the law is framed it 

 will be partial to one or the other. It is consequently 

 not at all a matter of surprise that people should argue 

 that fish and game laws are made for certain localities 

 and individuals, and not until people alter their opin- 

 ions and are taught to believe that fish and game laws 

 are passed for the benefit of all, that they are not 

 intended to be restrictive of the liberty of any person 

 or class of persons, but that their sole object is the 

 preservation of animals for the enjoyment of all who 

 love nature and sport, will our fish and game laws 

 receive that support to which they are justly entitled. 

 Another evil working against the proper enforce- 

 ment of the law, and one bearing a close relationship 

 to the foregoing, is the method of conducting politics 

 at the present time. Too frec|uently are laws dictated 

 by political influence, and too frequentl}^ are appoint- 

 ments interfered with in the same manner. Men who 

 are appointed to office, and who are desirous of doing 

 all in their power for the protection of fish and game, 

 are hampered by the power of politics, and this is fre- 



