18 WILD LIFE PROTECTION FUND 



We do regret, however, that outside New York City, and 

 the few other cities which are helping to support the work 

 of national organizations having headquarters here, very- 

 little money is being raised and expended for the wild life 

 cause. I think that New York is doing at least 80 per cent, 

 of the work that is being done on national lines for wild 

 life protection. Two New York national organizations are 

 well provided with funds, one moderately so, and a fourth 

 has a fixed income of about $1,200 per year. One other 

 excellent national organization in New York is literally 

 starving for the ammunition that is necessary for its work ; 

 and if it continues in the field, it must be financed from 

 outside its own membership. 



The scarcity of campaign money outside of New York, 

 Boston, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis and two or three other 

 centres, is most deplorable. The naked fact is that the 

 cause of wild life is subsisting only on the crumbs and husks 

 that fall from the million-dollar tables of "art" and tran- 

 scendent "education." No educational scheme is now too 

 wild or too visionary to command unlimited money for its 

 support. 



That the wild life cause, everywhere save in New York, 

 should be struggling along on a starvation basis, is entirely 

 wrong. It is not fair, and it is not sensible. It is enough 

 to discourage all those who are working in the vineyard 

 for conscience sake. At this moment there should be, in 

 every state in this land, a trained and masterful field agent, 

 properly paid and equipped, independent of politicians, un- 

 afraid of the game-hogs, and always in evidence for the 

 creation of proper public sentiment, the enforcement of the 

 laws, the enactment of new laws, and the fighting of vicious 

 "repeal" laws. 



Most state game commissioners and state game wardens 

 are at the mercy of election returns; and they come and 

 go. None of them dare to antagonize the sportsmen too 

 far, even in trying to save the sportsmen's oivn game from 

 extermination! There are very few states in which there 



