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possession proof of an offence. It does not give 
the Survey, or the President, any right whatever 
to do either of these things, or to change the bag 
limits! 
The Survey has been condemned for not push¬ 
ing numerous cases which, from inside knowl¬ 
edge, it was sure would terminate adversely, and 
thus harm the general cause. 
Certain conditions existed that wise men knew 
better than to discuss in print. Conditions that 
could not be cured out of hand just had to be 
endured,—until certain things are done. 
I know that the Biological Survey has, by a 
very few persons, been denounced; and for 
what? for not having made laws over night, 
and for not having accomplished utter impossi¬ 
bilities : For instance the Survey has been criti¬ 
cised for not more thoroughly guarding ou. 
National bird preseves, ignoring the fact that the 
Survey has 69 bird preserves and several big 
game reservations in its charge, scattered from 
Florida to Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands, with 
only $21,000 a year to do it with. 
Recently Mr. Emerson Hough has permitted 
himself to attack the Biological Survey, destruc¬ 
tively. in the Saturday Evening Post. I am sur¬ 
prised that he should have missed his cue so 
widely. The charitable supposition is that his 
attack was due to lack of information. But it 
gets on our nerves, just the same as if it were * 
due to other causes. 
In my opinion, whoever says or insinuates 
that the Biological Survey ought to be abolished 
is an enemy to the wild life of North America, 
and a menace to the cause of game protection. 
The Survey needs no defence from me. Its 
splendid record of achievements is too fresh, and 
too well known, to be obscured by a thousand 
attacks. I am writing this statement solely to 
warn American sportsmen generally not to be 
deceived, not to acquire wrong impressions, not 
to accept a totally wrong point of view! I as¬ 
sert that in the enforcement of the migratory 
law, the Survey has done the very best that it 
could do under the circumstances, and with the 
means at its disposal. 
During the first year the Survey had—what? 
The whole of $10,000 with which to enforce the 
law in 48 states! That would have placed one 
warden in each state at a salary of only $17 per 
month, with nothing for his expenses. But that 
was all it could get, along with the law! To get 
the measure through, its friends in Congress had 
to put it through as a 20-line “rider”, on the 
Agricultural Appropriation bill. And the next 
year, what happened? 
The Survey needed $200,000 to enforce the law. 
In the Department estimates it asked for $100,- 
000. And then that was cut down to $10,000! 
But, in spite of the teeth of the enemies of the 
game birds, we secured the $50,000 originally al¬ 
lowed by the House. That means a trifle over 
$1,000 for each of the 48 states 1 Cannot even Mr. 
Hough appreciate how far such a sum will go in 
paying salaried inspectors, and handling cases? 
Does any sane and fair-minded man expect the 
Biological Survey to protect our game birds, and 
other birds, with one-fifth of the sum that should 
be regarded as the irreducible minimum? Never¬ 
theless. even under existing conditions the 17 
federal inspectors have accomplished a very great 
amount of good work. But this service is only 
making a beginning. Is it possible that thinking 
men do not realize this? 
A few sportsmen have made a fuss about cer¬ 
tain details of the regulations, which they de¬ 
mand shall be made to fit their local conditions 
to a T. The vast majority of American sports¬ 
men are loyally and patiently giving the regula¬ 
tions a fair trial, to see how they will work out. 
These are the men to whom I am now writing. 
A good sport, or a good sportsman, will give 
tions are subject to change on proper showing, 
and changes will undoubtedly be made, after the 
every well-meaning law its chance! The regula- 
most fair-minded consideration, when the evi¬ 
dence shows the justice of the demand for a 
change. 
The Biological Survey is doing the very best 
that it can do under the very trying circum¬ 
stances that embarrass its work. Present drags 
on success will some day be cast off; and then 
we will have the conditions we all desire. The 
real bone and sinew of American sportsmanship 
is behind the federal law, and behind the Survey; 
and that support will enable both to triumph, 
eventually. 
Any bureau, and any campaigner, can have 
plenty of friends in fair weather. It is storms 
and hurricanes that try out men, and separate 
the sheep from the goats. 
Some one has said: “It i s charged that Dr 
Palmer, and the Survey, are really against sport 
with the gun, and against the shooting of game?” 
What nonsense! It cannot he true that any 
man who can be trusted with a loaded gun is so 
foolish as to give serious ear to such a sugges¬ 
tion. The intimation is not worthy of serious 
comment. The most of the principal officials of 
the Biological Survey are thorough sportsmen 
as well as naturalists, and in hearty sympathy 
