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CONDITIONS IN THE ADIRONDACK^. 
Continued from page 1>5S. 
subsides. A club s rules must be stringent y en 
forced indeed if they lead to the punishment by 
the club of a violator. 
A case in point: Last spring a protector 
learned that it might be worth his while to go 
to a certain camp up the West Canada. It is 
a noted camp locally. Several politicians, good 
woodsmen and good fellows, are members. The 
protector caught one man with small trout and 
chased another across the creek. This fellow 
dumped his trout into the water, which was a 
good joke on the protector. At the annual meet 
ing of the club the episode of the game protec 
tor’s visit was made merry over and the protec¬ 
tor s victims made humorous speeches. None 
of the men seemed to realize that violating the 
game law was other than a matter for jubilee, 
caught or not caught 
1 here is much room for education with regard 
to the game laws. Every man must first search 
his own heart on the subject, to discover whether 
or not he is sincere and acts according to his 
preachings. I know old woodsmen who used to 
boast of killing game out of season who now 
without apology obey the laws. If men who are 
not well educated, who are subject to great temp¬ 
tation, can resist the desire to kill game in and 
out of season, certainly those who visit the moun¬ 
tains and hire guides might refrain from com 
pelling their guides to keep the table supplied 
and also fill the bag of the hunter who cannot 
shoot well enough to kill his own game 
The worst violators are guides who have to 
shoot game in order to keep in the good graces 
of unskillful or lazy employers. Many of these 
guides are unwilling violators, but who can blame 
the guide whose very living depends on retain¬ 
ing the friendship and patronage of the people 
he takes into the woods? On the other hand 
these guides are so foolish as to kill (he game 
on which they depend to make their living. 
If the guides would all get together and re¬ 
fuse to obey the mandates of their patrons, the 
patrons would perhaps be brought to time, but 
probably not. The guides could of course bring 
violators to court, but that is beyond hope. 
In any event, every man who asks his employe 
or permits his guide to violate a law, or who 
allows his employe to see him violate the law, 
makes that employe a violator. 
The statement by “A Sympathizer” that ‘‘only 
the other day a man hounded a deer to the ice 
* * * and finished it” is typical of one class of 
complaints. A letter to the nearest game pro¬ 
tector would have resulted in an investigation 
and very likely capture of the guilty parties. 
"But,” ‘‘A Sympathizer” whines, ‘‘we are not re¬ 
ceiving a single penny for that if we did it, and 
would not get a ‘thank you,’ while the salaried 
men would get the credit.” 
If “A Sympathizer” wants the credit, why not 
take the case into court himself, prove it, get 
the credit and half the fine collected, as the 
law says he may do if he really knows of such 
a case. There he has everything—credit and 
ha'f the fine, as provided by Section 22 , of the 
game law. 
Game is being protected very well, and the 
men who are doing it earn their wages. This 
is not to say more protectors are not needed, but 
even here “A Sympathizer” hardly knows the 
ground he treads on. He speaks of having a 
protector on every ten or fifteen square miles. 
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