CHAPTER III 



THE LEGITIMATE USE OF GAME BIRDS AND 

 MAMMALS 



After 30,000 years of wild-life slaughter, if we 

 date back to the cave men of southern France who 

 hunted and drew pictures of the mammoths and 

 rhinoceroses of Europe, man at last is beginning 

 to consider the rational treatment of the world's 

 stock of game birds and quadrupeds. Perhaps one 

 man out of every thousand to make a very high 

 estimate will now admit that the finest of the 

 beasts and birds and fishes have some rights which 

 predatory man should respect. It must be ad- 

 mitted, however, that throughout the world at large, 

 at least 99 per cent of the consideration that is now 

 accorded wild animals is based on thoroughly selfish 

 grounds and the desire for future benefits at the 

 cost of their lives. 



We are certain that there is now in the United 

 States more genuine sentimental regard for wild 

 life than can be found in any other country. In all 

 the campaign work and the lobbying that has been 

 done in Congress during the past fifteen years in 

 behalf of new laws and appropriations for the 

 better preservation of wild life, our cause has never 



