350 
summer boarders for much of their revenue, 
and yet they would kill off the last of the 
game animals and birds, and the game fish, 
which are the chief attractions they have 
to offer to people in the cities. They would 
take no heed of the logical and disastrous 
outcome of their prodigality, until it should 
be too late, and then they would denounce 
some indefinite and entirely innocent agency 
for robbing them of 
their birthright. 
I might hold forth 
at great length on the 
folly of these ' un- 
enlightened folk who 
are opposed to the 
game laws, thinking 
them of benefit only 
to city sportsmen; I 
might relate count- 
less stories to the 
shame of the vaunted 
“sportsmen” who 
seek to intimidate 
the game wardens 
through their politi- 
cal power and by 
enlisting the aid of 
jaybird newspaper 
writers, who, in turn, 
with a view toreaping 
popular favor, be- 
come the most per- 
nicious opponents of 
law and order. But 
to what end? Read 
this from the Mill- 
heim (Pa.) Journal: 
“The game and 
fish laws only benefit 
one class of people, 
and that is those from 
a distance and them that don’t need to 
work. The poor is cut out and so is the 
farmer boy. When the season opens the 
farmer boys have to take up the plow 
instead of the fish-rod and that lets the 
field to those who don’t work, and when the 
hunting season opens the farmer boys have 
to take in the corn and do their fall work, so 
they are cut out altogether and still have 
to pay the heavy tax.” 
I have been a poor farmer’s boy, and I 
have worked on country newspapers and I 

Warden of Washington County 
RECREATION 
can truthfully say there is no excuse for 
such rot as the foregoing, 
I shall not offer any opinions as to 
needed amendments and revisions of the 
, Vermont game and fish laws; Commissioner 
Thomas knows what is wanted, and it only 
is necessary that the people of the State 
give him the support he deserves. If the 
soundness of Mr. Thomas’s policy is 
questioned, then I in- 
vite the reading of the 
following, from Mr. 
S. F. Fullerton, Ex- 
ecutive Agent of the 
State of Minnesota 
Board of Game and 
Fish Commissioners: 
You ask my views as 
to what is most needed 
in Minnesota. First, 
we need larger appro- 
priations to carry on 
the work and extend 
the game wardens sys- 
tem; then we need edu- 
cation for the masses 
of the people in 
our State. You know 
that if we do not 
have public opinion 
back of us we cannot 
enforce any law, no 
matter how much 
money we have. We 
have been trying that 
for the last fifteen 
years, gradually work- 
ing up to it, andJ am 
glad to say things look 
bright in Minnesota 
for the future of game 
and fish protection. 
Of course, there are 
a great many improve- 
ments that we can make, but just glance at 
the laws that we have on our statute books 
and you will see that we have made rapid 
progress along that line anyhow. 
First, we have abolished spring shooting; 
second, we have abolished the sale of game 
animals, birds and game fish; third, we 
have stopped the cold storage of all game, 
which, in my estimation, is the greatest evil 
that any State can have to contend with to-day. 
We have the bag limit so small that it is not 
profitable for the market hunter or fisherman 
to ply his trade; it is large enough for any 
