174 What Birds Have Done With Me 



States have together contributed to the national 

 spirit; the Puritan notion of duty and respon- 

 sibility; the generous and humane democracy of 

 the Mississippi Valley; the independent, equality- 

 loving, though conservative, spirit of the South; 

 and the practical activity of them all." In another 

 place he says: "It was not the will of an indi- 

 vidual, but that of a whole people which, conscious 

 of its ability to accomplish any end submitted 

 humbly this omnipotence to the authority of the 

 moral law and of the ideal." 



In bird protection, I see what, in effect, will 

 be a League of States the whole preventing any 

 one state from laying violent hands upon and de- 

 stroying what is the property of all the states ; 

 bird-protection; "Of the people, by the people, 

 for the people." And when that glad day dawns, 

 "To Rent" will be in every window on "Stupidity 

 Street." 



