Preservation of Our Wild Animals 



of life; we can live and make money without 

 either. We cannot even use the argument which 

 has been so forcibly used in the case of the birds, 

 that the cutting down of these trees or killing of 

 these animals will upset the balance of nature. 



I believe in every part of the country — East, 

 West, North, and South — we Americans have 

 reached a stage of civilization where if the matter 

 were at issue the majority vote would unquestion- 

 ably be, let us preserve our wild animals. 



We are generally considered a commercial peo- 

 ple, and so we are ; but we are more than this, we 

 are a people of ideas, and we value them. As 

 stated in the preamble of the Sequoia bill intro- 

 duced on Dec. 8, 1903, we must legislate for the 

 benefit and enjoyment of the people, and I may add 

 for the greatest happiness of the largest number, 

 not only of the present but of future generations. 



So far as my observation goes, preservation can 

 only be absolutely insured by national legislation. 



GOVERNMENT LEGISLATION BY ENGLAND, 

 BELGIUM, GERMANY. 



The English, a naturally law-abiding people, 

 seem to have a special faculty for enforcing laws. 

 By co-operation with the Belgian Government 

 they have taken effective and remarkably success- 



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