THE WYOMING LEGISLATURE AT THE BAR 



OF PUBLIC OPINION 



IT IS CHARGED WITH AN UNTRUTHFUL AND MIS- 

 LEADING "MEMORIAL" TO CONGRESS, AND 

 A SPIRIT OF OPEN REBELLION AGAINST 

 THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 



Originally Issued, February 23, 1917. 



A NATION, a state or a city can be unfair, ungentle- 

 manly or mean, just the same as an individual. A 

 state legislature can be guilty of bad conduct, just the same 

 as a street gamin who throws mud at a club window. 



To show up the shortcomings of the legislature of a state 

 that is full of good and friendly people, is a painful task; 

 but those who volunteer to stand up for the rights of wild 

 life have to perform many duties that are disagreeable. 



We have given the Wyoming legislature a fair chance to 

 think it over, and square itself by rescinding that outra- 

 geous "Memorial." But that opportunity has been ignored 

 and apparently that legislature wishes to have its memorial 

 "go as it lies, ,, and lie as it goes. We therefore have no 

 option but to bring that legislature up to the bar of Public 

 Opinion, with our charges, and our evidence of wrongdoing. 



The federal game sanctuary proposition now before Con- 

 gress on a strong foundation of public sentiment and desire, 

 is, in our opinion, absolutely the last chance of the West to 

 bring back the big game to its now lifeless and desolate 

 wastes of wilderness, and make it really plentiful once more. 

 If any state prefers desolation to good sport and a new food 

 supply, its governor can side-step the game by merely re- 

 fusing to concur in the proposals for sanctuaries that are 



