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water in the whole country where he can rest in safety. 
The moment he comes in from the ocean he meets the 
gill nets and the pounds at the mouth of the river, the 
sweep seines further up, and hook everywhere, and at last 
on his breeding grounds, which at least ought to be 
sacred to him, he encounters the pitchforks of the white 
man and the spears of the Indian. 
Let us now at the eleventh hour, take pity on our long- 
persecuted salmon and do him the poor and tardy justice 
of giving him, in our broad land that he has done so much 
for, one place where he can come and go unmolested and 
where he can rest in safety. 
Allow me to add in closing that it seems to me highly 
appropriate that this society, which represents with such 
intelligence and ability all the fishing interests of every 
kind in this country, should take the initiative in a matter 
in which those interests are so closely concerned. The 
writer trusts that it will, and ventures to predict that, if 
its efforts in that direction should happily be rewarded by 
the creation of a national salmon park, it would become 
an enduring monument to the usefulness of the Society 
that would last as long as the Nation lasts. 

