EDITOR’S CORNER. 
WHAT AN INDIANA EDITOR SAYS. 
Here is more hot stuff “ferninst” the 
game hogs and the automatic gun. It is 
from the facile pen of the Editor of the 
Indianapolis Sentinel. 
With these frosty October mornings 
there comes to the dweller in town and 
city a desire to get out in the stubble 
fields with dog and gun; that instinct 
reasserts itself which centuries of civ- 
ilization have yet been unable to erad- 
icate; the “call of the wild,” the wish 
to go out and kill something. In all 
the shooting districts is heard the bang 
of the shot gun, and soon we shall 
have the sportsmen back in_ town, 
boasting of their prowess and enumer- 
ating with gusto the immense number 
of birds they have been able to slaugh- 
ter. Among them will, of course, sing 
loud that most self satisfied and shame- 
less of brutes, the game hog. e 
It is to protect our birds and animals 
against this species of swine that all 
game laws have been enacted, but the 
game laws only serve to make him 
more alert and to reduce the competi- 
tion. He shoots for the pleasure of 
slaughtering, and his pleasure is in- 
creased in direct ratio to the size of 
his bag. He argues that if a dozen 
birds make a good day’s sport, a hun- 
dred would make a better, and a thou- - 
sand would constitute perfect happi- 
ness. His brother, the fish hog, has 
done his best during the summer to 
rid our lakes of bass and trout; those 
he could not use he has thrown away, 
not back in the water, and now the 
game hog will emulate his example. 
A sturdy crusade against the Sus 
americanus venator has been taken up 
and is being vigorously prosecuted by 
G. O. Shields, better known as Co- 
quina, the veteran editor of REcREA- 
TIon. Those who turn sport into 
slaughter and the hunting fields into 
shambles he arraigns by name, and 
whenever he can he publishes their 
pictures, a veritable rogues’ gallery. 
Coquina’s latest kick is against the au- 
tomatic gun which is now being intro- 
duced by one of the big arms com- 
panies. The arm he refers to has al- 
ready been seen in the form of a revol- 
ver, which fires 7 to 10 cartridges in 
about 2 seconds. The mechanism as 
applied to a shot gun bids fair to pro- 
duce a deadly machine for the use of 
the pot hunter. Mr. Shields describes 
it as “a gun with a magazine holding 
a number of cartridges which may be 
discharged as fast as a man can pull 
the trigger. The shooter jumps a bunch 
of quails, ducks or geese, cocks his gun 
and fires. The recoil of the first shot 
throws out the empty shell, throws a 
new one into the chamber and cocks 
the gun ready for another shot. From 
that on, all the shooter has to do is to 
swing the muzzle of his gun from one 
bird to another and pull the trigger 
until the last shot is fired. Pistols 
built on this plan hold 7 to 10 car- 
tridges, and it is possible to fire all of 
them in less than 2 seconds. The mag- 
azine of an automatic shot gun, holding 
6 cartridges, could be emptied as quick- 
ly, and if the shooter were an expert, as 
many of the game butchers are, it 
would be possible to kill 10 or more 
birds out of a covey before they could 
get out of reach.” 
All the game laws in the world can 
not hold the game hog, for brutes 
know no law but that of their own 
swinish nature; but decent people and 
true lovers of sport may do their share 
toward creating such a_ sentiment 
against game butchers that their trade 
will be followed with ever increasing 
difficulties. It is hardly to be expected 
that the company which has paid a 
large amount for a new engine of de- 
struction will be moved by principle 
to withdraw the gun from the market. 
It is the brute instinct that must be 
conquered. 
No doubt Mr. Bennett, of the Winches- 
ter Co., will also accuse the Editor of the 
Sentinel of mud slinging, even as he 
accuses me. But the impartial reader, the 
real friend of game protection, will hail the 
Editor of the Sentinel as a stalwart ally 
in our good work 

AN IOWA EDITOR’S OPINION. 
Here is a red hot editorial from the Sioux 
City, Iowa, Journal, of Sunday, November 
Ist. The man who writes this article is a 
sportsman and, of course, a gentleman. I 
commend this wholesome advice to brother 
editors throughout the country: 
November REcrEATION directs atten- 
tion to a new automatic shot gun which 
has just been placed on the market, 
and which, if generally adopted by 
sportsmen, is likely to neutralize all the 
good effects which have come from re- 
cent legislation for protection and pres- 
ervation of game birds. The new 
weapon works on the same principle as 

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