150 WILD LIFE PROTECTION FUND 



In the course of the first two meetings that were held 

 for the organizing of the I. S. P. A. at Kansas City, much 

 talk was indulged in that was distinctly incendiary. For 

 example, Mr. D. G. Phillips, of Moberly, Mo., said that 

 (in defiance of the federal law), "ducks were being shot 

 in his part of the state every day," that "the bolder of 

 the hunters were going ahead and enjoying their sport/' 

 and he "advised all duck hunters to go ahead and shoot 

 ducks the same as they have always done." (Spoilsmen's 

 Review, Feb. 14, 1914, page 149). 



"Mr. Rooney, president of a club at Archie, and an 

 attorney at law, said he had been shooting ducks, and was 

 going to continue to shoot them," and "he strongly advised 

 all hunters not to be deterred from their sport, but go 

 ahead and shoot as the state of Missouri licenses them 

 to do. His remarks were just what the crowd wanted." 



"Several hunters present announced that they had shot 

 ducks in January, and notified the district attorney that 

 they awaited arrest. The congressmen and senators were 

 asked to work to secure a third zone, to be called the 

 'passing zone/ which would take in Kansas and Missouri," 

 and by a special dispensation give those states a special 

 privilege all their own. 



But the new association did not stop with planning to 

 attack the federal law, and if possible have it declared 

 unconstitutional. As a crowning injury to the interests 

 of the people of this country at large, their senators and 

 representatives in Congress "were also asked to vote 

 against the treaty with Great Britain, which if passed will 

 make it impossible for the states to declare the Weeks- 

 McLean law unconstitutional." 



From that original program that association apparently 

 has not swerved an inch. Its motto seems to be: "Rule or 

 ruin!" The association's senatorial champion, Mr. Reed, 

 already has attacked the federal law as bitterly as he could, 

 and has denounced it as "unconstitutional." 



