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mercenary killer, using his gun and rod as the 
tools of a trade; but a warm-hearted, broad¬ 
minded, open-handed gentleman, who possesses 
the qualities of honor, courtesy, coolness and 
tact; a man whose grasp is firm, whose eye is 
kindly and fearless; who holds his friends 
through merit;‘who makes errors and fearlessly 
admits and rights them; who is as ready and 
willing to lend a helping hand as he is to raise 
it in defense of right; a man big enough to laugh 
at the taunts of an unworthy or a weaker foe; 
a man as quick to defend a woman’s honor as 
to defend his own; a man with the light of the 
clear sky in his eye, and with bounding blood 
in his veins; a man and a sportsman. 
To him the rustle of his hunting coat as the 
bough brushes it, the crunch of leaves under his 
feet, and the song of bird’s in the lofty tree top 
is music far more stimulating than any orchestral 
crash of brass; to him the sudden whirr of 
wings, the rush of scurrying game, the flashing 
leap of trout and the quick tug of the striking 
fish is sight and sound to quicken the pulse beat, 
and to send the life fluid rioting tumultuously 
through his being. He finds solace, comfort and 
delight in nature’s wilds, and health and happi¬ 
ness in the solitude of the forest. His face may 
grow lean and swart, his hair silver, his step less 
true and straight, but his eye never, never loses 
its keenness, nor his hand its helpfulness. 
A TRUE AMERICAN SPORTSMAN. 
The true sportsman is always a patriot, an 
ideal citizen, faithful to the community, the 
home, and family. “Association makes the man,” 
and his frequent communion with the trees of the 
forest, the brooks and rushing rivers, and the 
vast and silent mountains, makes for a broad¬ 
ness and clearness of view which must of neces¬ 
sity find reflected expression in his association 
with his fellow man. 
The term “American sportsman” must ever 
be a synonym for “American gentleman,” and a 
brief consideration of the more important per¬ 
sonages of American history will convince any 
one of the truth of this statement. The great¬ 
est of all Americans was a sportsman, and we 
may safely assume as true that the military 
achievements of Washington—from the saving 
of Braddock's army to the surrender of Corn¬ 
wallis—were in no small degree the results of 
an early training in woodcraft and field sports. 
We are told that Washington was the most fear¬ 
less rider in the American army, and this was 
only natural in view of his sporting habit of 
riding to hounds. 
Lincoln loved the woods, and in his youth 
was an enthusiastic hunter. In our own day 
we have had the notable examples of Capt. Rob- 
ley Evans, of Admiral Dewey and of former 
President Roosevelt—men whose cool courage 
and executive ability are unquestioned. “Fight¬ 
ing Bob” Evans and the hero of Manila Bay 
were, in their younger days, ardent fox hunters, 
while long before Theodore Roosevelt led his 
rough riders up the bloody sides of San Juan 
hill he had met unflinchingly the onslaughts of 
the grizzly bear, and all his followers upon that 
historic occasion were men whose major years 
had been oassed upon the game fields of the 
United States. 
The hunter’s camp is of necessity the nurs¬ 
ery of courage, tact and resourcefulness, and 
Ben Johnson writes most appositely: 
“Hunting hath the noblest exercise, 
Making a man laborious, active, wise. 
Brings health, and doth the spirit delight; 
Helping the hearing and the sight. 
It teacheth arts that do not slip the memory; 
Search, sharpness, courage, and defense, 
And ehaseth_all ill habits thence.” 
PROPERTY OF THE PEOPLE. 
The American sportsman is playing a most 
important part in the future welfare of our 
natural resources, and in these days of commer¬ 
cialism and of lamentable disregard of all that 
is beautiful in nature; when the song of the lark 
in the orchard has no meaning that is not sub¬ 
ordinate to the concern for the occasional cherry 
he eats, and when admiration for a beautiful 
tree is lost in the thought of the board feet it 
contains, it is the American sportsman who 
stands forth boldly and manfully for the protec¬ 
tion of our forests, birds, fish and wild animals. 
It is the sportsman alone whose voice is ever 
raised in protest when our law makers remove 
still another restraint and permit and encourage 
still further rapacity for the ultimate destruc¬ 
tion of all that nature gives us in the line of 
animate grace, charm, beauty, and benefit. 
The Supreme Court of the United States 
has declared that all the fish and game in the 
state belongs to the people, and that the people, 
represented in their collective capacity, may pass 
laws stating when such fish and game may be 
taken, how much of it may be taken, and what 
shall be done with it after it has been taken; 
and it is the sportsmen everywhere who are 
demanding the observance of such laws; and 
especially are they insistent that the eighth rule 
of the dominant code, “Thou shalt not steal,” 
shall be kept. The word “steal,” when used in 
reference to the work of the game poacher, is 
used advisedly, for the man who takes game 
or fish in violation of the written-law is a thief; 
a thief, who with premeditation, and with craft 
and cunning, and assuming only the coward’s 
risk, in silence and solitude committing his crime 
where none may see, filches the property of the 
people. 
BIRDS OFF THE BONNETS. 
To the sportsmen also may be accredited the 
initial momentum of the world-wide movement 
for the elimination of the dead bodies of mur¬ 
dered birds from fashionable feminine headgear. 
That this humane work has been so ably fur¬ 
thered by the many societies formed for that 
purpose should in no wise detract from the credit 
to be accorded those whose skilled observances 
afield gave publicity to the unspeakable cruelties 
inflicted upon bird life because of the fashion 
demands of the thoughtless. 
My experience as county fish and game war¬ 
den and as deputy fish commissioner during the 
past fifteen years has led to my conviction that 
the best results to be obtained along the lines of 
forest, fish, game and song-bird protection is to 
be gotten from a program of education. Never¬ 
theless, prohibitory laws must be made, and when 
passed must be rigorously enforced, and it is my 
earnest wish that every member of the com¬ 
munity take an active and personal interest in 
such enforcement, and that the teachers in our 
public schools bring to the attention of their 
pupils the great importance of our bird life, and 
of the cruelty and wrong accompanying any act 
which tends to the destruction of our song or 
game birds, their nests or eggs. Thus, there 
may be built up and fostered within them, that 
humane protective sentiment which, expanding 
with the years, will, in time, admit them 
worthily to the ranks of true American sports¬ 
men. At this time, when our Government is 
doing so little for the cause, the sportsman has 
taken up the work, and his voice is heard, crying, 
“Halt! Stop! Consider before you fell that 
tree; before that shot is fired; before that trout 
is taken. And his warning cry is being echoed 
up and down the land, and game protective asso¬ 
ciations are being formed everywhere by think¬ 
ing men and women, whose object is to have 
their children reap where their parents have 
sown. 
BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. 
We have seen the passing of the elk, the 
passing of the wild pigeon, and very soon it may 
be we shall see the passing of the deer, duck, 
dove, quail and trout, and shall witness the 
demolition of the last giant redwood and pine. 
When the commercial spirit shall have left 
its impress upon the land, and when everything 
in nature susceptible to mercantile use shall have 
been offered upon the altar of utility; when cities 
shall have risen where now are hunters’ camps; 
when the scream of the locomotive shall echo 
back from treeless hills; when no longer can be 
heard the pipe of the quail or the coo of the 
dove as it calls to its mate; when the smoke of 
factory fires shall pollute the air where now is 
wilderness; when fire and the woodsman’s axe 
shall have turned our forests into shadeless black¬ 
ened scars; when a noble heritage of wild life— 
bear, antelope, deer, and tree squirrel—shall have 
gone the way of the buffalo; when quail, grouse, 
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duck and song birds shall have passed to extinc¬ 
tion along with the wild pigeon; when our lakes, 
rivers, and streams are as barren of fish as are 
now the great salt lakes of Utah; and when the 
only spots in this broad land where wild life 
shall yet remain, and where forests may still be 
found in their primeval grandeur, shall be the 
state and national parks and forest reservations 
for which the sportsmen are now fighting. Then 
perhaps the American people will regret their 
failure to appreciate the importance of the cam¬ 
paign being waged by the sportsmen of today, 
and that their concerted assistance was not given 
to every movement looking to the protection and 
perpetuation of every God-given gift of nature 
we enjoy today. 
For the reasons given above, and for others 
equally important but which may not be included 
in an article of this length and scope, I am 
interested, heart and soul, in a policy of fish and 
game protection, and for these reasons I have 
assisted in the organization of fish and game 
