Forest and Stream 
A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 
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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1895. 
t VOL. XLIV.— ,So 
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NON-RESIDENT DISCRIMINATIONS. 
' t The Forest and Stream is on record as being opposed 
to those fish and game laws which discriminate between 
the citizens of different States. Broadly stated, the ob- 
jection to such statutes is that being sectional in spirit 
and application they are contrary to the American idea. 
Instead of promoting among traveling sportsmen the 
feeling of brotherhood and citizenship in one great and 
common country, they nullify that sentiment and tend 
directly and strongly to intensify sectional jealousy. No 
sportsman citizen of one State may go into another 
State and be taxed there as a foreigner without feeling 
that he is a foreigner, and that the people who have im- 
posed the non-resident tax upon him are foreigners. 
That this consideration is in no wise fanciful is demon- 
strated by the actual experience of those who have thus 
been subjected to such discriminations. At the meeting 
of the New York Association in Syracuse the other day 
indignation was freely expressed on the part of New 
York gunners who had been compelled to pay license 
fees in Canada for the privilege of shooting and fishing, 
and it was proposed to adopt retaliatory measures in 
order to "get even" with the Canadians. Something of 
this feeling has frequently been expressed by those who 
have gone from one State into another and have there 
been treated as aliens. Because of this radical and in- 
herent objection contained in all non-resident laws, we 
believe that they are unwise. No matter how effective 
they might be for game protection, even this would not 
justify them if they are in essence unpatriotic and un- 
American. 
In many instances non-resident discriminations are of 
the-beam-and-the-mote order. They are restrictions 
sought to be put on strangers by communities whose own 
residents know no limit to their own excesses with gun 
or rod. In nine cases out of ten no one thinks of out- 
lawing the foreigner from a sister State, until the game 
or fish supply has been ruined, not by foreigners, but by 
natives. If reasonable fish and game laws, applicable 
to all men alike, without respect to residence, were en- 
forced impartially and only half-way thoroughly where 
they are now not in effect in the slightest degree, we 
would never hear of non-resident restrictions. It is so 
much more easy to raise an outcry about the wrongs 
perpetrated by outsiders than it is to curb the lawless- 
ness and greed of the folks at home. 
A non-resident law will accomplish nothing which 
may not be secured much more effectively in other 
ways. If market shooters from other sections invade a 
country to kill its game for market, laws against 
shipping to market and prohibiting export from the 
State will afford the ample remedy. "Witness Minnesota ; 
and inquire of Executive Agent Andrus as to the market 
shippers who seek to evade the law of that State, and 
whose business has been broken up by the enforcement 
of the law, whether they are foreigners from other 
States or residents of Minnesota. If shooters who come 
into a State from outside kill an inordinate amount of 
game, limit the number of birds or quadrupeds permitted 
to any one gun, whether the arm be in the hands of a 
resident or non-resident. In short, restrictive measures, 
which apply to all men alike, have been found amply 
sufficient when enforced and in so far as enforced. 
It goes without saying that game and fish are unpro- 
tected for the most part because the laws which are now 
on the statute book are regarded as dead letters, -applic- 
able neither to resident or non-resident. Entirely too 
much time and attention are expended in discussing the 
theoretical working of regulations which might super- 
sede present statutes. The good which might be effected 
by enforcement is lost, while men are looking for other 
statutes which will in some miraculous way enforce 
themselves. Talk of the utility of non-resident laws 
and of taxes on guns and of various other expedients is 
often loudest and longest in sections where there are 
more than sufficient laws already to answer every pur- 
pose if they were given half a chance. 
Are laws which discriminate against sportsmen from 
other States constitutional? This is a question which has 
been asked many times ; and when we put it to Hon. J. 
M. Rose of Little Rock, Ark. , the other day, like every 
good lawyer he refused to answer it off hand, although 
he himself had been chiefly instrumental in draf ting 
such a law himself. After investigating the subject Mr. 
Rose expresses an opinion that some laws of this char- 
acter may be constitutional and others not. Where it 
is expressly provided by statute, as in Arkansas, that the 
game and fish are the property of the commonwealth 
and that their taking is a privilege accorded by the 
State, the State may impose a non-resident limitation 
and it will be upheld by the courts. On the other hand 
where legislation is not based upon this foundation of 
the State's declared property right in its fish and game, 
a similar non-resident provision might not be upheld. 
SNAP-SHOTS. 
So ' ' Piseco, ' ' in the person of Rear- Admiral Beardslee, 
has sailed away in the good ship Philadelphia on his 
mission to the Sandwich Islands. If he encounters there 
one of those little blue and white signs, which enjoin 
to ' ' Report your luck with rod and gun to Forest and 
Stream, New York, ' ' and which are gradually finding 
their way over the civilized and uncivilized world, we 
hope that he will let us hear from him about the fishing 
out there. The last report from "Piseco" was of fishing 
in a Georgia River, where the mode was for the fisher- 
men to inunge into the water and drive the prey into 
the nets. They do this better out in the Sandwich 
Islands. A native method is to dive down and place 
among the stones at the bottom baits of a plant named 
anhuhu ; this intoxicates the fish and they are then 
caught by hand by the divers. If "Piseco" will study 
this mode he can give his Georgia friends points on 
their favorite methods. 
United States Consul DeKay sends home from Ger- 
many to the State Department a report setting forth the 
cheapness of venison in that country, and suggesting 
that the same food might have a more important place 
in the economy of the United States if deer parks and 
forest preserves were established here. 
Slightly Utopian, perhaps, yet the next generation 
may see it. The next generation is destined to witness 
many changes from the game conditions now prevailing ; 
and it is by no means improbable that in those days 
there may be more deer confined within private parks 
than there will be out of it. Of one thing at least 
Americans appear to be convinced; this is that the 
time has come for him who can to get control, either 
individually or in association with others, of as much 
hunting territory as possible from which the public is 
to be excluded. 
We invite the attention of the authorities of Idaho to 
the showing made in our columns to-day by a corres- 
pondent who writes from that State of the havoc the 
nettersjtnd jiggers and spearers have made with the 
trout supply. A few more seasons of this unrestrained 
drain on the stock will practically make the end of fish- 
ing in these waters. It is a shame and a disgrace that 
such things are permitted in these days of enlighten- 
ment. Idaho and every other Western State should have 
advanced beyond this primitive stage of improvidence 
just as they have advanced beyond the condition of mind 
which made a joke of blowing up the Indians with 
dynamite. It is astonishing that the Union Pacific 
Railway should advertise fish spearing as among the 
attractions for tourists. 
THE CONTROL OF TRAP-SHOOTING. 
For some weeks past the trap columns of Forest and 
Stream ha,ve contained letter after letter, written by 
shooters of all classes and from all sections of the coun- 
try, each one upholding the stand taken by this paper 
in the matter of the purification of trap shooting. 
It cannot be denied, and never has been denied, that 
a considerable amount of questionable work is carried 
on at the tournaments of the present day. The one 
cry has been : ' ' Stop it. ' ' The agitation of these 
few weeks has done much to strengthen the hands of 
the gun clubs themselves in their efforts to do away 
with that which robs the sport of the healthy rivalry 
which has had much to do with the popularity that the 
sport of trap-shooting now enjoys. 
The call for a convention of trap-shooters to be held 
in this city on January 24, sighed by twenty-four well- 
known shooters whose reputation is above suspicion, 
has appeared in these same columns. The feeling that 
something must be done to rescue this sport from becom- 
ing a purely money making machine is widespread ; it 
is -not confined to any one section. 
Neither is it intended that any organization of trap- 
shooters, such as that contemplated in the call for the 
convention in question, shall be in any sense otherwise 
than national, in fact as well as in name. Attached to 
that call are the names of shooters prominent in the 
North and in the South, in the East and in the West. 
Those names are a guarantee that there will be nothing 
sectional in anything they may undertake to do for the 
present benefit and future welfare of their sport and 
pastime. The cause of purity at the trap may be safely 
left in their hands. 
THE SPORTSMEN'S EXPOSITION. 
The committee of the Sportsmen's Exposition make 
an interesting report of progress, which is printed on 
another page. As a business measure the association 
has been incorporated, and there is some probability that 
out of it may grow a permanent organization which, if 
planned and developed on right lines, cannot fail to be of 
direct and lasting benefit to the several interests 
concerned. 
It is gratifying to learn that the exposition spaces are 
being taken up, and that manufacturers and dealers 
appreciating the opportunity the exposition will afford 
them, are preparing to make adequate and effective dis- 
plays. The educational and advertising possibilities of 
the Sportsmen's Exposition can hardly be overestimated. 
In Madison Square Garden next May will be gathered 
thousands of visitors, intent upon seeing and studying 
the development of sporting goods in all the variety and 
perfection there set out. The effect will be not alone to 
stimulate the interesc of those who are already enrolled 
in the roster of sportsmen, but to bring in a multitude 
of recruits to swell the army of shooters and anglers. If 
rightly conducted— as the list of managers gives promise 
that it will be — this first annual sportsmen's exposition 
will mark an era in the history of field sports in America. 
The exposition will be in progress just at that particu- 
lar season of the year at which, ever since the time 
When Adam dolve and Eve span, 
the thoughts of the young man and of the old lightly 
turn to thoughts of fishing. It will be the season to 
study rods and flies and all the angler's outfit; and if 
the tackle houses make the displays they ought, to meet 
this demand, we may expect to see no parts of the great 
exposition surrounded by denser throngs than those de - 
voted to the angler's art. The nature of angling supplies 
is such that with the decorative devices which naturally 
accompany them, exhibits of these classes may very 
easily be made the most attractive and enticing in the 
entire exposition. In no other classes is there likely to be 
so immediate and generous returns as with these. 
