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suitably pay counsel for responsibility for legislative 
results, and a general secretary to keep an accurate 
record of all those interested in fish and game preserva- 
tion through the State, and employ the funds of the 
Central Association, as directed, for the distribution of 
appropriate literature adapted to the creation of a healthy 
public opinion on this very important subject. These 
central federations, in turn, should be entitled to 
membership, in certain established proportions, in an 
inter-state body which, either directly or through an 
executive committee, could direct in questions of national 
legislation or inter-State regulation and the general 
objects of the cause of fish culture and preservation. 
The expenses and salaries, if any, of such an inter-State 
Congress or Board of Management, should be paid from 
the State Central organizations represented. 
“There is nothing novel about such an arrangement. 
It is merely carrying into fish culture the methods of 
political organization. The fact is hardly an objection. 
Whatever object depends on legislation is, in a sense, 
political, and the political organization has proved itself 
the most efficient means of uniting many minds and 
many mites to produce legislation, and that is what we 
are after. 
“It may be further objected that such a plan implies 
work and raising money. Such is the fact. But when 
it is remembered what fish preservation means to us as 
a nation; that cheap, healthful, and abundant food for 
the poor and all classes of the people; the livelihood for 
hardy fishermen and boatmen; the industrial prosperity 
of many sections of our States; mental relaxation for 
the toiling workers of our cities in all the busy pursuits 
of our intense and intensifying daily life; that these and 
many other objects of vast importance, socially, morally 
and financially, are involved in preserving the.bounties 
of nature for the enjoyment of the present and use of 
