THE SLAUGHTER OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS 301 



It has been in progress, day and night, ever since our first 

 game laws were enacted. In this land of ours the sacred name 

 of Liberty is used by rogues and thieves of a hundred different 

 kinds to cloak their outrageous practices against the common 

 welfare. There are in this country at least five million per- 



PTARMIGAN SLAUGHTER IN THE ABSENCE OF LAW, YUKON TERRITORY. 



Part of three thousand Ptarmigan slaughtered at Pueblo, near "White Horse, by miners and 

 railroad men. The birds are hauled In by the wagon-load. 



sons of lawless and criminal instincts, who believe in doing 

 exactly as they please whenever the clutch of the law is not 

 actually upon them. Hundreds of thousands of aliens are 

 coming to our land to make their fortunes, and have their 

 children educated at public expense, whose fixed idea of lib- 

 erty is that it means license to do as they please. 



Against this lawless element, both native and alien, the 

 defenders of wild life always will be at war, in an irrepressible 

 conflict. The following are the most deadly features of the 



