274 SADDLE AND CAMP 



papers are our great educators and moulders of 

 public opinion. Let them once take up the 

 matter of starving elk, and very quickly public 

 opinion will drive our Federal and State au- 

 thorities to solve the question and stop the 

 wholesale torturing by starvation that has been 

 going on for years. 



Well-meaning people support at consider- 

 able expense hospitals for indigent and way- 

 worn cats, in such cities as New York. If these 

 well-meaning people would chloroform their 

 indigent Tommies and spend their money to 

 purchase hay for starving elk, or in a campaign 

 to arouse public opinion in behalf of the starv- 

 ing herds, they would be doing a worthy serv- 

 ice for dumb creatures. 



