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which do not permit and encourage game 

 breeding should of course enact a game 

 breeders' law as many of the States have. 



FAITH AND WORKS. 



We are gratified at the increasing 

 number of letters endorsing the maga- 

 zine which come in the rnail from new 

 readers. 



We print in this issue part of a long 

 letter received from a Virginia reader 

 who says The Game Breeder is the best 

 magazine he has ever read. 



It always occurs to us when we read 

 these voluntary testimonials that the 

 magazine is by no means what it should 

 be and what it can be made provided 

 our readers will back up their faith with 

 works. Many of them are doing this. 

 They not only tell their friends about 

 the magazine but they take their money 

 and send it, with the request that we add 

 the new names to our subscription list. 

 Not a week passes without our receiving 

 such orders and they are most encourag- 

 ing. 



We hope our readers will always bear 

 in mind the fact that the magazine can 

 be made far better, far more influential 

 than it is when the number of our read- 

 ers is increased and we have the money 

 to do the necessary work. 



Our advertisers write often to say the 

 magazine is "it," or words to that ef- 

 fect. We are always glad to learn that 

 they are getting good returns. If they 

 did not we should not want them and 

 we are quite sure they would not want 

 us. It is important, therefore, for those 

 interested in the "more game" campaign 

 to deal only with those who advertise. 

 It is not a bad plan to sign all letters, 

 "Yours for more game." 



United States has attempted to empha- 

 size the fact that we all are people of 

 one country and that we should exercise 

 common sense and the spirit of fair play 

 in dealing with each other. Those who 

 make a business of tinkering with game 

 laws, however, have arranged to have 

 pheasants and other wild foods shipped 

 to the New York markets from foreign 

 countries but they say no American 

 farmer can ship such food to this mar- 

 ket unless he lives within the State. He 

 can buy the eggs and hatch the birds 

 but he must keep them and not ship 

 them. 



A budding young statesman once said 

 to the writer, "This is protection, good 

 Republican doctrine, you know." Good 

 Republican damned nonsense, we ob- 

 served (in an undertone, however), be- 

 cause at the time we hoped to convert 

 the bud who had a vote on a pending 

 measure intended to put an end to the 

 absurdity. To state that the law is in- 

 tended to be a protection to the New 

 York farmers, who now sell their food 

 in New York, is to point out the fact 

 that the law is clearly unconstitutional, 

 because the Constitution says citizens 

 of the several States shall enjoy equal 

 rights and immunities. The only way 

 such laws are ever held to be constitu- 

 tional is to do a little lying about them 

 and say they are not intended as dis- 

 criminations, protecting residents, but 

 that they are purely police regulations 

 intended to save wild food birds which 

 might be stolen or eaten. 



TOO BAD! TOO BAD! 



The game keeper of one of the game 

 breeding associations in Pennsylvania 

 writes to know if they can send game to 

 the New York market. We believe the 

 courts would say yes to this inquiry, but 

 the New York laws say no, and absurd 

 as "the fool" law seems, it might be 

 e.xecuted. The Constitution of the 



MORE LAWS OR MORE GAME? 



We are strongly of the opinion that 

 the sportsmen who gather at State con- 

 ventions are likely to succeed in getting 

 what they want. If, for example, they 

 decide to get more game laws restricting 

 or prohibiting field sports they may ac- 

 quire a vast number of these laws. At 

 the Maine convention one of the orators 

 deplored the fact that they seemed likely 

 to restore the 700 local laws which were 

 repealed a short time .ago. 



Of course the game politicians are in- 

 terested in seeing that the sportsmen get 

 what they want provided they are will- 



