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money for campaign purposes, in liberal figures, 

 and of asking others to give. To beg for a good 

 cause of any kind is not only right but honorable; 

 for it is ten times more painful to ask for many 

 subscriptions than it is to make one subscription and 

 thereby purchase immunity. Any man can fight 

 for wild life, but it takes a real hero to raise money 

 for it by subscription. 



The saving of the wild life and forests of the 

 world is a duty that by no means is confined to a 

 small group of persons who work for nothing and 

 subsist on their own enthusiasm. The saving of 

 the fauna of a nation is a national task. It is liter- 

 ally everybody's business. It rests upon the shoul- 

 ders of the educated and the intelligent, and the 

 motives that prompt it are not found in the breasts 

 of the sordid and the ignorant. The educated 

 people of the United States and Canada now are 

 called upon to protect their own from the Goths 

 and Vandals of the army of destruction who are 

 strangers to the higher sentiments. 



In some of the states of our country, it is worse 

 than futile to rely for the saving of wild life upon 

 the men who kill. They are devoted to slaughter, 

 and it is a waste of time to talk with them. Turn 

 we, therefore, to the great body of humane men and 

 women who do not go hunting and who do not kill. 



We have a right to demand services for this 

 great cause from the educators, the scientists, the 

 zoologists in particular; from lawyers and doctors 



