A Defense of Fishermen 



and communion with Nature's best 

 and most elevating manifestations. 

 This sort of fishing is pleasure and 

 not work — sport and not money-grab- 

 bing. Therefore it is contemptuously 

 regarded in certain quarters as no bet- 

 ter than a waste of time. 



Generous fishermen cannot fail to 

 look with pity upon the benighted 

 persons who have no better concep- 

 tion than this of the uses and benefi- 

 cent objects of rational diversion. 

 In these sad and ominous days of 

 mad fortune-chasing, every patriotic, 

 thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes 

 or not, should lament that we have 

 not among our coiuntrymen more 

 fishermen. There can be no doubt 

 that the promise of industrial peace, 

 of contented labor and of health- 



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