132 OUR NATIVE BIRDS 
THE PURPOSE AND THE PRINCIPLES OF THE LEAGUE 
oF AMERICAN SPORTSMEN 
The League of American Sportsmen is organized for 
the purpose of protecting the game and game fishes ; 
the song, insectivorous, and other innocent birds, not 
classed as game birds. 
Its prime object is to enforce game laws, where such 
exist, and to secure and enforce such laws where not 
now in existence. 
It aims to promote good fellowship among sportsmen ; 
to foster in the minds of the people a love of nature 
and of nature’s works; to encourage the propagation 
of game and game fishes, and the re-stocking of game 
fields and public waters. To these ends it will act in 
unison with state, county, and municipal authorities 
who aim at similar ends.! : 
The League of American Sportsmen will not com- 
pete with any other organization that has similar 
objects in view. On the contrary, it desires to enlist 
the sympathies of, and to codperate with, all such. 
The League of American Sportsmen is opposed to 
excessive slaughter of game and fish, under the name 
of sport. We are opposed to the killing of any inno- 
1 A person knowing of violations of the game laws should promptly 
notify the L. A. 8. game warden or the respective state game warden, 
who may be addressed in the following manner : — 
Stare Game Wanrpvrn, 
Sr. Pau, Minn. 
The office of the state game warden is nearly always at the state 
capital. 
