LET US GO AFIELD 



refuge. That was something entirely new in Amer- 

 ica. 



All these northbound fowl, however, going north 

 under the general wisdom of the proposition that if 

 you reap you must sow, reach Canada today less 

 such numbers as are 'killed in the spring shooting of 

 the United States. Our state laws began to restrict 

 the sale of game very sharply; but it was realized 

 that the next great agency of destruction was the 

 spring shooting. We could never get at that could 

 not even get state laws enacted to abolish it, weak 

 as state laws always have proved themselves. 



It was then that there came this simple and ob- 

 vious Weeks-McLean Law, which solved at one 

 stroke this whole vexing problem which had been 

 left unsettled for a generation. In combination 

 with all these other gradually stiffening measures of 

 protection, it gave the people of America for the 

 first time reason to believe that we are to have a 

 reign of law more compatible with our intelligence 

 as a people. 



Let us not use the much-bandied name of con- 

 servation but just call this an example of good horse 

 sense. It gives his equity in the game to the man 

 who has time to shoot and to the man in the city 

 who has not time to shoot but who, none the less, 

 has a right to his undivided interest, his share in the 



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