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cate before Congress the conversion of every 

 national forest into a national game-preserve, there 

 will be a great outcry from the resident hunters 

 who for years have been exploiting those forests as 

 their private hunting-grounds. Then must the 

 People-at-Large, the great, silent, sleepy, but irre- 

 sistible mass, arouse, shake off their lethargy, and 

 unite in demanding their rights, in behalf of them- 

 selves, and posterity. The enemies of conservation, 

 who wish to see Nature stripped bare of her 

 resources for the benefit of their "constituents," will 

 declaim and protest, just as they did against the 

 enactment of the federal migratory bird law. But 

 they will be overwhelmed, just as its fifteen oppo- 

 nents in the House of Representatives were over- 

 whelmed in May, 1913, when they attempted to 

 block the wheels of the car of Progress on which 

 the McLean bill was rolling through the United 

 States Congress. That must be our next great 

 victory, and in the winning of it, thousands of 

 strong college men will be needed on the firing-line. 

 Will the men of Yale take the initiative in enlisting 

 that contingent, and in helping to raise the flag of 

 conservation higher than ever before so high, in 

 fact, that it will make the destructionists dizzy to 

 look at it? 



Let the citizen remember that several great wild- 

 life protection causes have been finally won through 

 Congress, and through state legislatures, by the 

 personal letters of constituents addressed in earnest 



