THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 



officer even to the shedding of blood. They have to be taught 

 that this is not a land of ''unlimited freedom." Many of these 

 people are not even intelligent enough to know that the right to 

 fish and hunt does not belong to them at all, but that it is a 

 privilege granted by the state upon certain conditions. The 

 alien as a rule knows not the difference between a game bird 

 and a song sparrow, robin or meadowlark; everything that flies 

 makes good pot-pie. 



This is well illustrated by the following example, which was 

 told us by Mr. Joseph Kalbfus, of Pennsylvania. It had been 

 reported that the Italians in a certain community were violating 

 the game laws. A warden visited the camp. One of the Ital- 

 ians was sick in bed. Upon inquiry, his companion said he had 

 been hunting. "He etta too mucha the big chick.*' At the 

 side of the cabin the warden found the head and feathers of a 

 turkey buzzard. 



UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT DECISION. 



In 1909 the legislature of Pennsylvania passed an alien gun 

 law and it was signed by Governor Stuart on May 8th of that 

 year. The bill provided that no alien in that state could own a 

 gun, and that the state not only had the right to seize weapons 

 owned by aliens, but to search the domiciles of aliens if there 

 was reason to believe firearms were held contrary to the law. 



Besides the prohibition against the use of firearms, the law 

 also provides that "it shall be unlawful for any unnaturalized, 

 foreign-born resident of Pennsylvania to hunt for, capture or 

 kill any wild bird or animal, game or otherwise, except in de- 

 fense of person or property." 



A vigorous protest was made at the time and foreign govern- 

 ments were appealed to in an effort to compel Pennsylvania to 

 retract. The law was tested in the state courts and upheld, and 

 was finally carried to the United States Supreme Court. The 

 contest has been a long and bitter one. On January 19. 1914, 

 a decision was handed down by Justice Holmes sustaining the 

 constitutionality of the law. 



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