ABOUT THE GAME LAWS AND THEIR 
ENFORCEMENT. 
O save the native American wild animals, of the 
herbivorous or herb eating kinds from extermin- 
ation, as well as our insectiverous and game birds, it 
became necessary many years ago in the older states to 
make and enforce restrictive laws for their preservation. 
That these laws wete at first openly violated and their 
enforcement resisted by the lawless element—the ex- 
cuse being that by its special tenor the law was merely 
an adjunct of the penal statutes and not necessarily a 
part of it, and therefore entitled to no consideration. 
Fortunately for the birds, the law abiding class thought 
differently and their thoughts sustained the law and kept 
it upon the State statutes. 
It was in the Eastern and Middle States that the first 
attempts were made for enacting laws to protect the birds. 
Beginning in the schools for the young, the people 
became educated up to the necessity of preserving the 
lives of insectiverous birds, thatthe birds inturn would ~ 
be able and willing to assist in warding of calamity from 
destructive insects in orchards, gardens and farms. To 
protect the game birds and animals in these States it was 
more difficult, but the organization of sportsmen’s clubs 
and kindred organizations for the preservation of this 
class of birds and animals—being composed of men 
from the higher walks of life—and with much political 
influence with legislators and the directors or promotors 
a a 
