SECOND BIENNIAL STATEMENT 159 



The true sportsmen have joined hands with the great 

 mass of the friends and protectors of wild life who do not 

 shoot and who never kill game. It is incumbent upon this 

 class to meet the gunners whenever necessary, and fight the 

 battles of the vanishing game. 



Here are four illustrations of so-called "sportsmen," 

 (really gunners only), who attempted to do wrong things, 

 and were soundly whipped by the great majority that don't 

 shoot, aided by the Real Sportsmen. 



1. — In 1915 and 1916 the Interstate Sportsmen's Pro- 

 tective Association of Missouri and adjacent territory was 

 soundly beaten in Congress when it attempted to kill the 

 federal migratory bird law. 



2. — In November, 1916, the Arizona Sportsmen's Asso- 

 ciation (an old organization, remember), was soundly beat- 

 en at the polls in a general election when it endeavored to 

 defeat State Game Warden Willard's bill for reform 

 measures. 



3. — In February, 1917, the League of Ohio Sportsmen was 

 swept off its feet by the State Legislature when it attempted 

 to prevent Ohio's quail from getting into the song-bird list. 



4. — In April, 1917, the college professors, editors and law- 

 makers of Iowa administered a stinging defeat to the or- 

 ganized "sportsmen" of Iowa, led by their chief apostle, 

 State Game Warden Hinshaw, when the latter attempted 

 to keep Iowa quail from getting a five-year close season. 



For three or four years we have been warning the so- 

 called "sportsmen" of America, over and over, that if they 

 do not brace up, turn over a lot of new leaves, and give the 

 almost-vanished game real protection, the great mass of 

 people who don't shoot will do the work for them. 



We cite the four celebrated cases listed above as exhibits 

 worthy of the consideration of gunners who wish to spare 

 themselves the humiliation of backing bad causes. 



The above remarks do not apply to the real sportsmen of 

 America, who are ready to make whatever sacrifices are 



