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RECREATION. 



allowed all of the other 46 States and Ter- 

 ritories to precede you in this important 

 movement? 



Will you suffer the present state of af- 

 fairs to continue another year? 



Do you realize the desperate effort that 

 is now being made by all the game dealers 

 East of the Mississippi to draw game from 

 your State? 



Do you know your State is being flooded 

 with circulars from hundreds of Eastern 

 game dealers, offering fancy prices for 

 game? 



Do you know what this means to the 

 market hunters, the farmers and the game 

 hogs? 



You know as well as I do that hun- 

 dreds of carloads of game have been 

 shipped out of your State every year for 

 the past 20 years. 



Do you realize that the amount will now 

 be doubled, tripled and perhaps quadru- 

 pled? 



Do you know this traffic is going to be 

 continued straight through the winter, 

 without regard to the close of your legal 

 season? 



This League is ready to help you secure 

 an amendment to your game laws, at the 

 next session of the Legislature, to prohibit 

 the shipment of game beyond your State 

 limits. Will you accept our aid? 



We have done the greatest service ever 

 rendered to the cause of game protection 

 by securing the passage of the Lacey bill, 

 and you should get into line as quickly as 

 possible, in order that you may reap its 

 benefits in common with the other States. 



Now why do you not join this League? 

 Why should you not contribute $1 a year 

 to aid in the great work we have yet be- 

 fore us? 



The same editorial referred to above says 

 the game dealers throughout all the East- 

 ern States are moving to raise a great fund 

 to test the constitutionality of the Lacey 

 law; and to secure amendments to the 

 Lacey law which would practically amount 

 to a repeal. 



There is no organization in the United 

 States that could cope with these game 

 dealers except this League. That has been 

 demonstrated time and again. We needed 

 the assistance of the millions of sportsmen 

 in the United States to secure the passage 

 of the Lacey bill, but we had the help of 

 only 3,000 of them. Now, shall this little 

 band be compelled to fight this issue all 

 over again, through the courts and before 

 Congress. Or shall we have the help of 

 the others? 



Will you put up your $ and do your 

 part? I once more appeal to you as a 

 brother sportsman, as a friend of the birds, 

 as a lover of field sports, to come to the 

 aid of the L. A. S. 



GAME DEALERS ON THE WAR PATH. 



The New York Produce Review (the 

 organ of the game dealers) in its issue of 

 September 12th prints an editorial in which 

 it states that the game dealers of this city 

 and of the entire country are thoroughly 

 aroused in opposition to the Lacey law. 

 They have determined to raise a large 

 fund for the purpose of testing its consti- 

 tutionality in the courts. Also for the 

 purpose of making a determined effort to 

 have the law amended by the next Con- 

 gress in such a way as to allow the sale of 

 game at any time of year, if imported from 

 another State in open season. 



Thus the L. A. S. has another great 

 piece of work cut out for it. It will devolve 

 upon this League to fight the test case 

 which will be brought in the courts, and to 

 carry it to the United States supreme 

 court. There we shall be victorious, as 

 we were in securing the passage of the 

 law; but this means a year or more of 

 persistent and unceasing labor for the offi- 

 cers of the League. It means an expen- 

 diture of perhaps several thousand dollars, 

 for attorney's fees and other necessary ex- 

 penses. 



Furthermore, the officers of the League 

 will be required to spend several weeks 

 in Washington next winter, fighting the 

 proposed amendments to the Lacey law. 

 No officer of this organization desires or 

 would accept a dollar for such services; 

 but their expenses, while engaged in such 

 work, should be paid. We have thus far 

 been paying all such costs out of our own 

 pockets, but the time has come when we 

 should be relieved of this drain. 



It may therefore become necessary to 

 ask League members to contribute to a 

 fund for this work. It would not be if the 

 other 999 would do their duty. If all the 

 sportsmen who are interested in game 

 protection, and who have expressed their 

 approval of the good work of this League, 

 would join it and contribute $1 a year each 

 to its work, we should have all the money 

 we should need to fight the game dealers 

 to a finish. 



What other organization is there in the 

 United States that could successfully cope 

 with the great national octopus which 

 seeks to hoard up game in cold storage 

 houses, for sale all through the year? 

 There is none. No combination of the 

 most powerful local organizations in the 

 country could successfully fight the game 

 dealers when they go before Congress and 

 ask for amendments to the Lacey law. 

 This fight can only be successfully waged 

 by the great national organization which 

 secured the passage of it. Shall the 3,000 

 men who won that victory be compelled to 

 go down in their pockets to fight the issue 

 all over again? Shall they be required to 



