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AREA THAT SEEKS TO RULE OR RUIN 

 The dotted area proposes to have a spring shooting dispensation, or destroy the whole 

 migratory bird law. (Many wild ducks nest and rear their young in Kansas and Missouri!) 



Will the Dotted Area Dictate to the Whole United States? 



About 2,500 men calling themselves "sportsmen," well financed by sel- 

 fish interests, now seek to destroy the federal migratory bird law because 

 they cannot have a special spring-shooting privilege up to March 31. They 

 seem indifferent to the fate of the insectivorous birds. 



From Missouri's Petttiox to Coxgress. 

 (See Congressional Record for April 25, 1916. Page 7799.) 



"All other means having been denied us, we earnestly 

 petition that no farther public funds be appropriated for 

 the enforcement of this migratory bird law, and that our 

 Senators and Representatives oppose it in every form and 

 manner, even to its repeal." 



To Oppose the Treaty. 



From the report (Sportsmen's Review, February 14, 1914), of the first 

 meeting of the organized Missouri opposition, Kansas City, February 2, 

 1914: 



The Missouri Senators and Representatives in Congress 

 "were also asked to vote against the treaty ivith Great 

 Britain, which if passed will make it impossible for the 

 states to declare the Weeks-McLean law unconstitutional." 



