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SHALL FIVE STATES DICTATE TO FORTY-THREE? 



Thus far no one has taken the trouble to canvass the 

 states of Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas to ascertain 

 the real position of the majority of the people of those 

 states toward the migratory bird law. We do not for one 

 moment believe or admit that any great number, much 

 less a majority, of the sportsmen of those states favor the 

 Missouri policy of rule-or-ruin. But even were we to admit 

 that the majority in each of the five states named is com- 

 mitted to the support of a bad cause, is Congress going to 

 agree that five states shall rule forty-three states ? That it 

 may be seen that the opposition to Missouri's demand is not 

 wholly confined to "the East," nor to the Department of 

 Agriculture, we offer here the text of a letter written May 

 24 by the officers of the New Mexico Game Protective Asso- 

 ciation, representing nine local associations, with, a total 

 membership of over 1,000, to the Sportsmen' s Review, and 

 published therein on June 10, 1916. It requires no com- 

 ment from me. 



THE VOICE OF THE SPORTSMEN OF NEW MEXICO. 



Albuquerque, New Mexico, 

 May 24, 1916. 

 Mr. Fred E. Pond, Editor, 

 Sportsmen's Revietv, 

 15-27 W. 6th St., 

 Cincinnati, Ohio. 

 Dear Sir: 



We sportsmen out here in New Mexico have been watch- 

 ing with keenest interest the Missouri fight against the fed- 

 eral migratory bird law. Possibly our position as bystanders 

 invests our opinion with some modicum of neutrality. At 

 any rate we have, as American sportsmen, a perfectly good 

 claim to representation in fixing the terms of the "Treaty 

 of Peace." It may therefore interest your readers to know 

 what New Mexico thinks. 



