EDITOR'S CORNER. 



THE LEAGUE DID A LARGE 

 PART OF IT. 



In 1898 B. B. Odell was elected 

 Governor of New York by a majority 

 of 110,000. During the winter of 

 1 90 1 -2 he secured the enactment of a 

 law permitting game dealers in this 

 State to possess game throughout the 

 year. This in direct opposition to the 

 best interests of game protection. 

 Furthermore, he vetoed a bill of which 

 this League had secured the passage, 

 to prohibit the sale of ruffed grouse. 



In the campaign just closed Gov- 

 ernor Odell was re-elected by a ma- 

 jority of less than 12,000. You can 

 draw your own conclusion. 



Notice is hereby served on Mr. 

 Odell and the Republican members 

 of the New York Assembly that un- 

 less the cold storage bill is repealed, 

 and unless the League bill for the 

 prohibition of the sale of ruffed 

 grouse, woodcock and quails is en- 

 acted during the coming winter, 

 the League will swing at least 5 times 

 as many votes from the Republican 

 to the Democratic party in the next 

 election, as it did in this one. 



MY CHRISTMAS GREETINGS. 



TO MY FRIENDS. 



TO MY ENEMIES. 



481 



DOES NOT LIKE HIS OTHER NAME. 



Office of 

 Charles O. Jackola, 

 Justice of the Peace, Notary Public. 



Collections and Conveyancing. 



Calumet, Mich., Oct. 4th, 1902. 

 G. O.. Shields, 



23 West 24th St., New York. 



Sir: I have read your libelous article in 

 October "Recreation" under the heading 

 "Another Bunch of Michigan - Swine" which 

 refers to C. J. Wickstrom and myself of 

 this city. Now Mr. Shields, in the first 

 place go to your conscience (if you have 

 one) and reflect a moment on the word 

 "swine." You could not have found more 

 libelous word in the dictionary. Now, do 

 you not feel a little guilty of having left 

 your animal nature to predominate over all 

 conventionality and human propriety? — 

 Now, do not think that you are doing a 

 great humanitarian mission by calling peo- 

 ple swine. 



In the first instance our communication 

 to you, at your own request was a private 

 and priviledged one and in noway intended 

 to fill the vacant space of your publication. 

 In your letter to us you did not ask any in- 

 formation in regard to the catch of fish for 

 purposes of publication. However, you have 

 taken the authority to do so, and have thus 

 violated every rule of private and privi- 

 ledged communications. I presume you 

 know that the law in this regard is very 

 strict ; at least you ought to know that you 

 have no right to publish any private letters 

 without first obtaining permission. 



After having violated the laws and cus- 

 tom in this regard, then you go and libel 

 and slander us in the most outrageous man- 

 ner, which deserves, and rightly so, con- 

 tempt and shame from every American. 



It makes no difference to you, your publi- 

 cation or anyone else whether we caught 

 one or a thousand punds of fish as long as 

 they were caught legitimately; and you 

 have no right to make inferences to suit 

 your own fancy and then publish them un- 

 lawfully in a slanderous and libelous man- 

 ner. For you future information and knowl- 

 edge, let me tell you that we here under- 

 stand the game and fish laws as well as 

 you, perhaps better and enforce them when 

 they are violated. It might be well for you 

 to know also that we have the human in- 

 telligence to catch fish without seines or 

 hand lines, as you would like have the 

 readers of your publication to believe. I 

 am ready to submit affidavits at any time 

 and will do it when the proper time comes, 

 that every fish caught by us was caught 



