year going south; and why the argument that they 

 could be shot in the fall and not in the spring in this 

 section of the country is more than the writer can 

 understand, as we might as well prohibit the shoot- 

 ing on the Gulf Coast in December, January and 

 February as to prohibit it in this section during Feb- 

 ruary and March. 



"Is it not a restriction of the individual rights 

 and liberties of a resident of Missouri, Iowa or Kan- 

 sas, who perchance may have a small lake or pond 

 on his premises, when a flight of ducks going north 

 in February or March drops down on this lake or 

 pond, to say that this farmer shall not have the 

 right to shoot at them? When they get up and 

 leave they are gone for good, and if he cannot shoot 

 at them then he never gets the chance; but, on the 

 contrary, they are exposed to be killed by the Ca- 

 nadian Indian or the well-to-do sportsman who can 

 afford to visit the winter feeding grounds of such 

 game on the Gulf Coast. 



"It is not, therefore, a question of whether some 

 one sportsman, or some gun club or private game 

 preserve, shall have little or no shooting at all, but 

 is simply a question of whether the rich man, who 

 can afford to make long trips in quest of such game, 

 shall have practically the exclusive privilege be- 

 cause, if it is a fact that the average hunter in the 



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