LET US GO AFIELD 



than candid or sane in looking into these matters. 

 It is plain that the slightest study of this Western 

 plea for special privilege will disclose its logic to 

 have absurd premises and a faulty conclusion. It is 

 just plain, everyday, naive selfishness, nothing more. 

 It wholly forgets that all laws are compromises, but 

 that all laws are made to protect the public against 

 individual selfishness. It assumes that the law 

 should protect the spring shooter, and not the wild- 

 fowl. Such a protest is not even high-class non- 

 sense it is mere puerile babbling. Just that much 

 can be said of every other argument for special 

 privilege. Should we grant equal rights of exemp- 

 tion to every other locality of the United States 

 affected by the Federal wildfowl statute, we should 

 have no law at all and no game at all. 



The trouble with all special privilege is that it 

 lands us precisely in the middle of general anarchy 

 and general destruction, of general emptiness and 

 want. If it were not for these disconcerting fea- 

 tures special privilege would be an excellent thing, 

 whether in Wall Street, in the United States Senate, 

 or on a ducking marsh. 



Without doubt or question, the sentiment of the 

 American people is turning against special privi- 

 lege. We are beginning to unscramble the eggs. We 

 are revising some of the special privilege clauses of 



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