176 WILD LIFE CONSERVATION 



educating of the masses, but the arousing of the 

 conscientious citizen to the point of positive action. 



In these days we know not who will be the next 

 man to develop into a leader of conservation cam- 

 paigns. This being the case, it becomes of interest 

 to know what the young conservationist can do 

 when the mantle of leadership has fallen upon him. 



The greatest coups are to be made in securing 

 the enactment of new laws that produce sweeping 

 reforms. To the young leader I would say, never 

 choose a trivial cause, but instead, choose each time 

 one that is worth while to grown men. It takes but 

 little more time to pass a large bill than is necessary 

 for a small one; and big men always prefer to be 

 identified with big measures. Do not rush to the 

 legislature with a demand for a law to permit the 

 taking of bullheads with June-bugs in the creeks 

 of your township, or to give your county a specially 

 early open season on quail in order that your 

 brother may try his new gun before he goes back to 

 college. Do not propose any local legislation; for 

 bills of that species are coming strongly into 

 disfavor with lawmakers. 



One determined man who is reasonably intelli- 

 gent can promote and direct a movement that will 

 secure the enactment of a new law, provided he is 

 industrious and sufficiently determined. The man 

 who starts a movement must make up his mind to 

 follow it up, direct its fortunes, stay with it when 

 the storms of criticism and opposition beat upon it, 



