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result, as it has no object, but to advertise the names 
of four or five obscure Members of Parliament as 
sham champions of supposed popular rights. 
The truth is that all these questions are local, 
nay, more than local; they are so individual that 
they may as a rule be left to settle themselves by the 
force majeure of local opinion or knowledge. 
Dealing strictly with the question as it stands 
to-day, we may be practically certain that it is out of 
the power of one class materially to injure the other 
in a matter like that of the preservation of game. 
There is no need to introduce politics or legislation, 
on account of the widespread knowledge of the 
subject already existing, diffused as it is among all 
classes of the population who have anything to do 
with it. 
Really the Lord Chief Justice and Mr. Labouchere 
seem to be the only people who neither understand 
nor wish to learn anything about it. 
Politics should be out of place in a book on sport, 
but I offer no apology in these days—-when you hear 
the subject touched upon in every country house and. 
inn-parlour—for insisting upon the fact that the 
ordinary laws of humanity and common sense are 
sufficient, when not neglected, to protect all the game 
in these islands, and to preserve sport wherever 
