264 FIFTY YEARS A HUNTER AND TRAPPER. 



priaticwi made to pay this bounty. In this they will also find 

 their mistake. 



Now, brother trappers, we all know that the Lord helps him, 

 who helps himself and if we would save the fur bearing animals 

 from complete annihilation we must each of us do our part and 

 not depend on some one else doing the work. Let us all who 

 would have a closed season on mink, fox, skunk and muskrat 

 get a petition to that effect and circulate it. Get your merchant, 

 doctor, and every other business man in your neighborhood to 

 sign the petition and as many others as we possibly can. 



Now, my dear friends, let us remember that the gentleman 

 sportsman will not help us in this matter and if we would have 

 a closed season we must push this matter ourselves. In my up- 

 wards of fifty years on the trap line and the trail, I have always 

 done my part (as I saw it) to stop wasteful slaughter of game 

 and the fur bearers and I will do the very best that I am able in 

 this matter, although I realize that my days on the trap line are 

 few. 



Now, comrades, on the fourth of July (1910), the primaries to 

 nominate candidates to represent the people of the commonwealth 

 of Pennsylvania, will be held. Let every trapper of the state, 

 who is interested in the matter of a closed season on our fur 

 bearing animals get out and talk with their candidates whom they 

 wish to represent them at the next assembly. Let him know that 

 you wish a law passed at the next legislature giving a closed 

 season on fur bearing animals. We should bear in mind, that 

 writing and talking without action will not do. We must get 

 busy at once if we would accomplish anything. 



