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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[June xo, 1911. 
Published Weekly by the 
Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 
127 Franklin Street, New York. 
George Bird Grinnell, President, 
Charles B. Reynolds, Secretary, 
Louis Dean Speir, Treasurer. 
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—Forest and Stream, Aug. 14, 1873. 
MONEY FOR GAME PROTECTION. 
The offer of a large and continuing contribu¬ 
tion to the cause of game protection by manu¬ 
facturers of arms and ammunition marks the be¬ 
ginning of a new movement in game protection. 
First and last vast sums, of money have been 
contributed to this cause, and wasted because 
spent inefficiently in sporadic efforts to do some 
of the many things that ought to be done. A 
large sum is offered to be expended for game 
protection by the National Association of Audu¬ 
bon Societies, an association which has an or¬ 
ganization and a working force which years of 
effort have proved to be efficient and to accom¬ 
plish things. 
The action of the manufacturers in offering 
this contribution seems to be nothing more than 
plain business foresight, for the manufacturers 
of guns and ammunition very well know that 
with the disappearance of game the demand for 
their product will greatly diminish. 
Oddly enough, the acceptance of this donation 
by the Audubon Societies has been the signal for 
a violent and malevolent attack on it in public 
prints. The attack on an association which has 
done so much unquestioned good, and is man¬ 
aged by men of proved reputation, has no 
doubt made an impression on persons who have 
not taken the trouble to think carefully on both 
sides of the question, and who have forgotten 
past records. 
We believe that a candid, thoughtful consider¬ 
ation of the matter will convince most people that 
the action of the Audubon board was wise. As 
an association long engaged in protective work, 
which speaks for itself, it is probably in a bet¬ 
ter position to handle the matter than any other 
existing association, while it has the sympathy 
of the best class of sportsmen. The character 
of the members of the Audubon Board of Direc¬ 
tion is a guarantee that the acceptance of this 
donation implies no obligation whatever from 
the society to the donors, and in no sense abridges 
the freedom of the society to do what it con¬ 
siders right and wise. 
The matter is one on which a hasty judgment 
should not be made. It is worthy of careful 
thought. 
Through an important decision handed down 
by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the game 
laws of that State have been upheld and their 
enforcement in the future made more certain. 
The court held that the State had violated no 
treaty, constitutional or property rights in for¬ 
bidding hunting and shooting game and the pos¬ 
session of guns and rifles by unnaturalized for¬ 
eign born residents. 
The game laws were made primarily for citi¬ 
zens. To render game protection more effective 
the laws were made more stringent. The most 
persistent violators were aliens. So destructive 
were their methods, so general was their con¬ 
tempt for the laws, that the State was compelled 
to forbid them to hunt, shoot or carry firearms, 
though it allows them to possess revolvers and 
pistols for their own protection. The court fur¬ 
ther held that aliens are entitled to the protec¬ 
tion afforded by our laws. In return they owe 
temporary and local allegiance so long as they 
reside here. 
This ruling is probably final, since it is the 
word of the court of last resort in Pennsylvania, 
and only the United States Supreme Court can 
alter the decision. 
It was in igog that Joseph Patsone was found 
guilty when tried before the Court of Quarter 
Sessions in Allegheny county on the charge of 
possessing a shotgun. He appealed and the 
Superior Court affirmed the ruling of the lower 
court, Judge Orlady writing the opinion, which 
the Supreme Court has now affirmed. The 
record was printed in these columns about a 
year ago. 
Aliens living in the United States enjoy many 
privileges they cannot find at home. So long as 
they are law-abiding, they are entitled to and 
receive the same treatment as citizens. If they 
wish to become citizens, they can do so by com¬ 
plying with certain requirements which are 
neither exacting nor unfair. But until they have 
done this they cannot claim rights that are de¬ 
nied citizens nor set at naught the laws of the 
land. If in one State they are permitted to pos¬ 
sess guns, it does not follow that in another State 
they will, by sufferance, be pernrtted to do like¬ 
wise. The right of the State to prohibit all or 
any hunting cannot be denied. 
SEA FISH AND FLIES. 
That shad will at times take artificial flies is well 
known, and there are many veteran anglers who 
have enjoyed rare sport with these fish in times 
past. To-day, however, the assertion is regarded 
as more or less of a tradition because so few 
of the present generation ever see a shad taken 
from its native element by any other means than 
the set or the drift net. From California it is 
reported that this season shad have been taken 
from the San Joaquin River with the trolling 
spoon, and that in certain places in the West 
coast streams they may be taken with bright red 
and white flies. 
That many sea fish will take artificial flies dur¬ 
ing their sojourn in fresh water or while skirt¬ 
ing sand beaches is well known. In Florida fly¬ 
fishing in the surf is often successful, and some 
lively sport has recently been had at Aransas 
Pass, Texas, with Spanish mackerel that rise to 
flies in the clear water of the inlets. 
There was a meeting at Middletown, N. Y., 
of officials from the railways and the Public Ser¬ 
vice and Fish and Game Commissioners, to dis¬ 
cuss fire preventive measures for the State lands 
in the Catskill Mountains. Throughout the State 
—in fact over a wide area north and east—the 
lack of water in sufficient quantities to saturate 
the humus in the woods and the soil elsewhere 
is being regarded with no little concern, while 
cities and towns face almost certain shortage of 
water in reservoirs. Two very dry summers fol¬ 
lowed by winters of scant snowfall materially 
affected springs' and brooks, many of which are 
to-day dry or very low. The rainfall for June 
is seldom sufficiently heavy to fill depleted water¬ 
courses and reservoirs, and at present the out¬ 
look is not particularly encouraging. 
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According to a press dispatch from Washing¬ 
ton, the first agreement between the Federal 
Government and a State providing for co-opera¬ 
tion in the protection of the State forests under 
the Appalachian forest reserve law was signed 
last Saturday by Secretary of Agriculture Wilson 
with New Hampshire. The State will be given 
$7,200 for twenty-eight forest patrolmen. New 
Jersey, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, 
Maryland, Minnesota, Vermont and Wisconsin 
have applied for funds. As only $200,000 was 
appropriated, not more than $10,000 will be al¬ 
lowed to any State for the year. No State will 
be allowed an amount larger than that which 
the State itself appropriates for the same pur¬ 
pose. 
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Every angler in America should consider it 
his duty to write to his senator in Washington, 
urging early and favorable action on the Dixon 
bill, which is printed in full in another column. 
If this bill becomes law, it will go far toward 
preventing the waste that has already been 
tolerated too long. Trout are not fish which can 
be thrown away in millions with impunity. In¬ 
expensive and effective devices can be placed at 
the heads of irrigating ditches, to prevent the 
trout from being stranded on cultivated fields. 
The Russian Duma has passed a bill prohibit¬ 
ing for a period of three years the trapping of 
sables. Aurochs and river bears are to be pro¬ 
tected for all time. 
ALIENS AND FIREARMS. 
