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WILD LIFE PROTECTION FUND 
vivors were treated like so many sick children. Let that 
sorrowful object lesson now be taken to heart by all true 
Americans, and applied “for the good of the order.” 
HUNTING LICENSE MONEY CANNOT ALWAYS PAY 
THE COST OF GAME PROTECTION. 
At this moment many states are supporting their game 
commissions and game wardens solely on the funds derived 
from the issue of hunting licenses on a cash basis. Already 
there are several state game departments which openly say 
that without hunting-license money with which to pay war¬ 
dens, their whole force would be wiped off the slate and out 
of existence. 
For example, Maryland has just gone so far as to create 
a state game commission; but on account of the protection 
of the oyster industry there is not one dollar for the main¬ 
tenance of state game wardens, and the prosecution of law¬ 
breakers; and so the commissioner is utterly powerless to 
protect the game of Maryland, and prosecute offenders 
against the laws. 
In Delaware, the State Game Commission has quite gone 
out of business, from lack of funds. No doubt there exists 
on paper a perfectly good set of reasons for the disgraceful 
condition; but there can be no adequate excuse! When a 
state is too mean to protect the wild life within its borders, 
that state should go out of business, and ask to be merged 
into the nearest commonwealth that is performing the func¬ 
tions of a real state. 
There is at least one western state (Idaho), whose State 
Game Warden entertains the view, and the fear, that a 
5-year stoppage of sage grouse shooting would wipe out 
their annual maintenance fund; and so, with the grouse of 
Idaho on the road to extinction, the situation becomes both 
perplexing and serious. 
The dependence of game protection on the killing of game, 
and alleged game, presents a problem of constantly increas- 
