Jan. 15, 1910.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
97 
St. Hubert's Protest. 
In explanation of the accompanying cartoon 
“Hunting by Wholesale,” it may be stated that 
Jugend is a weekly periodical, published in 
Munich and devoted to art, humor and satire. 
It is particularly severe when dealing with 
questions of politics and with the shortcom¬ 
ings of royalty and others in high places. 
Royal hunting parties have frequently been 
lampooned in its pages. On these occasions 
of hunting the high personages taking part 
are stationed in stands past which the game 
is driven by paid “beaters,” and 
the resulting slaughter is some¬ 
thing quite unheard of in this 
country. The Kaiser, if he takes 
part, of course has the first stand, 
and his score naturally leads all 
the others. Each participant has 
an aide, charged with the duty of 
reloading the weapons, with the 
result that there is no intermis¬ 
sion in the fusillade so long as 
any game is in sight. 
In the cartoon St. Hubert is 
represented as expressing his con¬ 
tempt for such butchery commit¬ 
ted in the name of sport. St. 
Hubert is as well known among 
the Germans as the patron saint 
of hunters, as Izaak Walton is 
among English-speaking people as 
a devotee of angling. St. Hubert 
was of noble birth and passion¬ 
ately fond of hunting, living in 
the eighth century. He was hunt¬ 
ing on Good Friday (Good Fri¬ 
day is in the closed season in 
most countries nowadays), when 
a stag appeared before him, bear¬ 
ing between his horns a gleaming- 
crucifix. Hubert foreswore world¬ 
ly amusements forthwith and re¬ 
tired to a monastery. He subse¬ 
quently took holy orders and be¬ 
came Bishop of Liege. S. M. 
Hunting Licenses. 
In a circular issued by the 
Maryland State Game and Fish 
Protective Association, the following data and 
opinions are put forward in support of what the 
association deems a reasonable, just and success¬ 
ful means of raising necessary funds for the 
protection of game: 
The two most important problems of practical 
game protection are how to enforce the laws, 
and how to secure the necessary funds for that 
purpose. Without funds it is manifestly im¬ 
possible either to provide or maintain the war¬ 
den system. 
The most successful method of raising funds 
thus far devised is a system of hunting licenses, 
in which way the men who reap the benefit are 
the ones who pay the bill. 
There are now thirty-four States in this coun¬ 
try, and most of the provinces of Canada, which 
have a resident hunting license in some form. 
No State which has ever adopted the resident 
license system has ever removed the law from 
the statute books; on the contrary the tendency 
has been to strengthen them, increasing the 
amount of the fee for said license, or making 
the laws more stringent. 
The receipts from such hunting licenses—non¬ 
resident license receipts not included—in the 
States for 1908 are very large, and the figures 
are here given for six States representing all 
sections of the country: 
California .$113,500.00 
New York . 125,917.00 
Illinois . 183,314.00 
Alabama . 13,152.00 
Connecticut . 16,696.00 
Idaho . 31,831.00 
The law which the Game and Fish Commis¬ 
sion has favorably reported to the Governor for 
Maryland, following the system of other States, 
requires every resident hunter in Maryland to 
pay a nominal fee of $1 for a resident hunting 
license, and $10 for a license for all hunters 
who are not residents of the State. Landowners 
or tenants,'or children of landowners or tenants, 
do not require such license while hunting on 
the premises of said landowners or tenants. All 
revenue to be derived from said licenses to go 
to the State treasurer, to be used by the State 
game warden for the protection and preserva¬ 
tion and propagation of game. Proper safe¬ 
guards for the issuing of same and the hand¬ 
ling of the money have been looked after. 
Licenses are good throughout the State and run 
for one year, are not transferable and must be 
exhibited when demanded. The bill to be in¬ 
troduced follows the Illinois law, which has 
been one of the most successful. 
There will be an immense revenue derived 
therefrom from hunters from Baltimore city, 
which will be distributed pro rata through the 
counties, according to the number of licenses 
issued in said counties. At present the thou¬ 
sands of city gunners who hunt throughout the 
State pay no license, obtaining written permis¬ 
sion from someone in the county which prac¬ 
tically gives them the privilege of hunting where 
they choose. Under the proposed system hun¬ 
ters of the city are calculated to add about ten 
thousand dollars per annum to the betterment 
of game conditions in the counties. The fol¬ 
lowing are some of the opinions of prominent 
men, as to what they think 
of a resident hunting license for 
this State as proposed: 
“It is impossible to accomplish 
anything in game protection in 
Maryland without more funds. I 
therefore request you gentlemen 
to devise some means by which 
the State can raise sufficient 
money to properly enforce the 
game and fish laws.”—Governor 
Crothers in his address to the 
Maryland State Game and Fish 
Commission. 
“You may put me on record as 
being in favor of such legisla¬ 
tion.” — Attorney - General Isaac 
Lobe Straus. 
“I have always advocated a 
resident license, as well as a non¬ 
resident one, and receipts from 
same should be used for the en¬ 
forcement of the game and fish 
laws of the State.”—William B. 
Hurst. 
“Indeed, the most important 
thing to be accomplished in 
Maryland the coming winter is 
to obtain the passage of a bill re¬ 
quiring every resident hunter to 
obtain a resident hunting license 
costing one dollar, for it is abso¬ 
lutely necessary to have more 
funds to properly protect the 
game.”—George Dobbin Penni- 
man, President Maryland State 
Game and Fish Protective Asso¬ 
ciation, in his annual address to 
the association in October. 
“I am inclined to support these measures.”— 
Senator Blair Lee in a letter dated March 8, 
1908, referring to resident hunting license, uni¬ 
form game laws and a bag limit. 
“I will do anything in my power to better 
protect the game and especially to help the work 
to obtain a resident hunting license law, prob¬ 
ably the most important thing now needed.”— 
W. Scott Way, Easton, Md. 
“I am in favor of a resident hunting license 
of one dollar. This office has not sufficient 
funds to cover even a small part of the State, 
nor boats to patrol its w r aters.”—State Game 
Warden Horace F. Harmonson. 
“There should be some general uniform law 
in Maryland for protection of game and fish, 
and every sportsman should he willing to pay 
for the maintenance of a special organization 
a license, say of one dollar per annum.”—George 
R. Willis. 
“In my opinion nothing we could do would 
be more effective in the protection and propaga- 
HUNTING BY WHOLESALE. 
St. Hubert—I hereby resign my office as patron saint of hunting as practiced at 
modern courts!—Jugend. 
