298 CONSERVATION OF CANADIAN WILD LIFE 



the real objects of hunting game, realizing the need of an 

 adequate code of ethics to govern the taking of wild game, 

 prepared the following code as a '^ sportsman's platform." 

 It has been formally adopted as setting forth their objects 

 by the Camp Fire Club of America, by the North American 

 Fish and Game Protective Association, and by numerous 

 sportsmen's and game-protective organizations in Canada, 

 and its adoption may be the means of securing a true 

 standard of sportsmanship and the conservation of our un- 

 surpassed game resources, which it should be the object of 

 every Canadian sportsman to promote to the utmost of his 

 ability. 



THE SPORTSMAN'S CODE OF ETHICS 



1. The wild animal life of to-day is not ours, to do with as we please. 

 The original stock is given to us in triist, for the benefit both of the present 

 and the future. We must render an accounting of this trust to those 

 who come after us. 



2. Judging from the rate at which the wild creatures of North America- 

 are now being destroyed, fifty years hence there will be no large game left 

 in the United States nor in Canada, outside of rigidly protected game 

 preserves. It is therefore the duty of every good citizen to promote the 

 protection of forests and wild life and the creation of game preserves, 

 while a supply of game remains. Every man who finds pleasure in hunt- 

 ing or fishmg should be willing to spend both time and money in active 

 work for the protection of forests, fish and game. 



3. The sale of game is incompatible with the perpetual preservation 

 of a proper stock of game; therefore it should be prohibited by laws and 

 by public sentiment. 



4. In the settled and civilized regions of North America there is no 

 real necessity for the consumption of wild game for food purposes. The 

 maintenance of hired labourers on wild game should be prohibited every- 

 where, under severe penalties. 



5. An Indian has no more right to kill wild game, or to subsist upon it 

 all the year round, than any white man in the same locality. The In- 

 dian has no inherent or God-given ownership of the game of North 

 America, any more than of its mineral resources; and he should be gov- 

 erned by the same game laws as white men. 



6. No man can be a good citizen and also be a slaughterer of game or 



