GAME LAWS AND GAME SUPPLY 



to special privileges, to the extent of having just 

 what we want. As to the other fellow, he feels pre- 

 cisely as we do about special privileges. Obviously 

 anything even a law of the United States which 

 interferes with anyone's special privilege is "uncon- 

 stitutional." 



State laws in the ancient warden system have long 

 ago been accepted as practically worthless in the 

 protection of our game. Under this system we have 

 seen our game disappear almost in geometrical pro- 

 gression year by year; and its disappearance is the 

 answer to the state game warden system. The dif- 

 ference between sixty cents a dozen for wild geese 

 and, say, six dollars each for wild geese is some- 

 thing fairly to be called a measure of the game war- 

 den system of the United States. 



When it comes down to adequate analysis of this 

 whole question of open shooting in America, the 

 thing simply resolves itself into that ancient propo- 

 sition of special privilege. For a long time you 

 could get away with special privilege in America; 

 but that day has gone by or is passing. The trou- 

 ble with some of us is that we cannot realize 

 that it has gone by, and that we still want to live 

 in the good old times when it was fashionable to 

 kill a man if we did not like the color of his hair. 

 All sorts of men, from all parts of the country, are 



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