236 THE LARGE AMERICAN MAMMALS 



The present death rate of big game cannot long continue 

 without the disappearance of killable big game down to the 

 vanishing-point. Existing laws are utterly inadequate to 

 stop the poacher and the meat-butcher. The question is: 

 Will the people of the United States and Canada now arouse, 

 and adopt the sweeping measures that are vitally necessary, 

 and which alone can save and restore a supply of grand game 

 for the sportsmen of the future? 



Our present ghastly system of legal slaughter and exter- 

 mination means the sure extermination of everything, save 

 the white-tailed deer, outside of the rigidly protected game 

 preserves. 



Americans and Canadians, take your choice: Shall it be 

 all for the men of to-day, or conservation, and a square deal 

 to the men of the future? 



