The Game Preservation Committee 



is in the nature of a great reform movement. As 

 such it contains extreme reformers and reactionary 

 reformers. The extremists at present are tending 

 toward the discouragement even of reasonable 

 sport, and their expressed views seem to imply that 

 all effective game protection is contained in the one 

 word Prohibition. 



"The Game Preservation Committee does not 

 sympathize with either extreme. We believe that 

 reasonable sport is admissible. We believe that 

 prohibition is only one of the many elements in 

 the problems. We would completely prohibit 

 where necessary, or approve the shooting of ani- 

 mals and game birds where it can be done without 

 detriment to the breeding reserve to maintain the 

 stock unimpaired in numbers. We believe that to 

 discourage the sportsman will destroy the most 

 effective force now working for game protection. 



"But the sportsman must conduct his sport like 

 a gentleman ; he should be the first to refrain from 

 shooting animals in places where they are so dimin- 

 ished in numbers that the killing of them will tend 

 toward their extermination, or even endanger their 

 increase; he should only secure trophies which he 

 himself kills, and should never buy them except 

 for purposes of scientific study in museums. 



"A field hitherto largely neglected now demands 

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