170 WILD LIFE CONSERVATION 



In the protection of wild life, it seems to me that 

 the average citizen does not even begin to realize 

 his own power. I know it, and a great many other 

 men know it, because we have seen the results that 

 have been accomplished by the private citizen on the 

 firing-line. If the defenders of wild life can succeed 

 in reaching and arousing the private citizen, the 

 wild life of our country can even yet be saved from 

 the general annihilation that threatens it. The 

 appeal for new help must be made to the men and 

 women of America who do not go hunting, and who 

 do not Mil wild creatures! 



Speaking generally, I think that we have gone 

 with the gunners about as far as we can go. I fear 

 that they will concede no more than they already 

 have conceded, and the new measures they are 

 willing to concede I believe are utterly inadequate 

 to the saving of our wild life. As a class and a 

 mass, the gunners are unwilling to grant long close 

 seasons, of five or ten years, and therefore we must 

 secure those long close seasons without their aid! 



We have proven what can be done by turning to 

 humanitarians at large the big-hearted people 

 who spend much of their lives in building hospitals, 

 endowing schools and caring for poor humanity in 

 general. These are the men and women who care 

 about posterity and its rights, as well as about the 

 needy ones of to-day. It was the 50,000 women of 

 the United States, organized and unorganized, who 

 rushed the anti-feather-millinery clause through the 



