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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[APRIL 7, 1906. 


Non-Resident Tax on Canadian Clubs 
PEMBROKE, Ont., March 30.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: The Legislature of the Province of 
Quebec has, at the request of Hon. Mr. Prevost, 
passed an act enabling the Minister to collect 
license fees from non- -resident members of clubs 
holding fishing and hunting leases from the 
Crown. 
In the history of Canadian legislation we have 
no former instance of such a cold-blooded and 
determined invasion of private rights; no such 
flagrant breach of solemn contract on the part of 
the Crown. 
As such, every one interested should, in my 
Opinion, join in fighting this iniquitous measure 
in every possible way. I therefore suggest that 
an early conference of all non-resident lessees 
should be held, say in the city of Ottawa, to dis- 
cuss the best means of further opposition. I am 
of the opinion that there are three plans of cam- 
paign which should be adopted in the order given 
below: 
1. Have a strong delegation wait upon the 
Federal Government at, Ottawa.e alder asi etbat 
Government to disallow the act, as a gross inter- 
ference with vested rights. There is no doubt, 
in my opinion, of either the right, or indeed the 
duty of the Federal Government, to disallow it. 
Should they decline to interfere, then 
2. Let every non-resident lessee hunt and fish 
without license, and when brought into court set 
up two defenses, (a)that the club which holds the 
lease has no existence outside of, and therefore 
must be domiciled in Quebec, and that the mem- 
bers must be considered as residents of the Prov- 
ince, and (b) set up the lease as a compliance 
with the act, for it is the strongest form of license 
the Crown can grant. Should the courts decide 
against these defenses, then 
3. Let every club and every member combine 
and agree not to hunt or fish in the Province, and 
to keep carefully out of it, and not to spend a 
dollar in it more than is necessary to protect the 
fish and game on the leased properties. A year 
or two of this would create such an outcry among 
the habitants, the guides and even the transporta- 
tion companies, as would bring the Government 
to a realization of the fact that the “goose that 
laid the golden eggs” ran considerable chance of 
dying of. starvation. 
The Minister has announced that he has been 
graciously pleased to fix the license fees at $5 for 
fishing and $10 for hunting. Some of those in- 
terested may think this hardly worth fighting. 
To such I would say that a somewhat intimate 
knowledge of the methods adopted by the gentle- 
inen imposing this tax forces one to the conclu- 
sion that this is only an attempt to make the dose 
we are getting more palatable, and if submitted 
to quietly will assuredly be followed later on by 
an increase to the limit. 
As far as the Minister is concerned I am afraid 
he is trying to draw a somewhat subtle distinc- 
tion between grand and petit larceny. 
W. R. WHITE. 
Game Law Evasion in Texas. 
New York.—Editor Forest and Stream: The 
game law of Texas is very strict in its prohibi- 
tion of the export of game without its bounda- 
ries. The Texan conditions were such, in ref- 
erence to its game, market hunters and game 
dealers, that a rigid non-export game law was 
essential to the preservation of Texan game 
from utter extinction. I have been told that a 
man, who has been famous in wholesale duck 
shooting for market purposes in years past, is 
still plying his profitable avocation in that re- 
spect, and circumvents the law by himself trans- 
porting his cargoes of ducks out to the high 
seas, without the three-mile limit of Texas 
jurisdiction on the Texan shore, where, by pre- 
arrangement, they are transferred to an ocean- 
going vessel, or at least a vessel which is not 
within Texan jurisdiction, thence are trans- 
ported to ports of other States and put on the 
market. 
Section 10 of the Texan game laws, accord- 
ing to the Game Laws in Brief, reads as follows: 
“It shall be unlawful for any express company, 
railroad company, or other common carrier to 
transport beyond the limits of this State, or 
within this State, except as hereinafter pro- 
vided, any wild animal, bird, or water fowl 
mentioned in Section 1, or the carcass thereof, 
or the hide thereof.” Section 1 specifies the 
usual list of game birds. 
Now, the question arises whether a man, who 
transports his own game birds, is a common 
carrier within the intent of the game laws of 
Texas, and also what is the legal status of the 
game birds when taken out of Texas and re- 
shipped on the high seas, without the State’s 
jurisdiction, and, for that matter, without the 
jurisdiction of the United States? Would such 
game, so shipped, be treated as foreign com- 
merce? Would the State of Texas be able to 
follow contraband game and re-establish juris- 
diction over it when it again came within the 
three-mile limit? Would the State of Texas 
have the legal power to suppress the traffic 
de novo? 
It seems to me that this novel phase of game 
law evasion is worthy of the consideration of 
your many readers who have the necessary legal 
training for the rendition of a sound opinion, 
and the sportsmanlike zeal to benefit the guild 
of good sportsmen. W. 
Southern Fox Hunting. 
“HorsE AND Hounp’™* is the title of an excel- 
lent, comprehensive work on fox-hunting and 
related matters. The author is Col. Roger D. 
Williams, of Lexington, Ky. ‘‘Horse and 
Hound” contains sixteen chapters, profusely il- 
lustrated with headings as follows: Hunting 
the Hunter; Schooling of Hunters; Cross 
Country Riding; Falls; Women in the Field; 
The Hound; History and Origin American 
Hound; Breeding and Raising Hounds; Train- 
ing Hounds; The Kennel; Scent; The Fox; 
Tricks and Habits of the Fox; In the Field, 
and Hunt Clubs. 
The chapter on Hunting treats of its benefits, 
fascinations, antiquity, importance in a com- 
mercial way, and of the technical vocabulary of 
the sport. The form of “fox hunting” which 
enjoins that the fox shall be killed with a shot- 
gun, he dismisses briefly as follows: “Hunting 
in certain portions of New England is certainly 
unique. There is none of the form, ceremony, 
glamour and glitter of the uniformed hunters 
and sleek and beautifully caparisoned thorough- 
breds of the Eastern clubs, nor the reckless, 
dare-devil, noisy riding that characterizes the 
Kentucky and Southern hunter. Clubs are 
formed for the purpose of shooting foxes. They 
go to coverts in large ‘barges,’ each hunter with 
his trusty shotgun across his knees. They take 
positions on a runway or stand until the coverts 
resemble the business end of a battleship; the 
hounds are thrown in a swamp, and as they 
bring out Br’er Fox a bombardment opens up, 
resembling a Port Arthur attack and repulse. 
They are as proud of trophies obtained in this 
way as a schoolboy is of his first pair of red 
boots. It being considered a distinction be- 
yond compare to have one’s name enrolled 
upon the official score board as having killed 
two or more foxes during a meet. 
“South of Mason and Dixon line it would 
be unhealthy for a man to indulge in this sport. 
They have an unwritten law in the South that 
would almost justify a man killing another man 
who even resembled such a hunter in personal 
appearance.” 
The chapter on Cross Country Riding 
abounds with information on the proper seat, 
the proper seat for jumping being minutely de- 
scribed and illustrated, that of President Roose- 
velt taking a fence on Bleistein being specially 
commended as an example of a perfect balance 
seat. 
However, no one part can be quoted as ex- 
cellent above its fellows, where all abound with 
accurate information, all of it at first hand. In 

*““Horse and Hound.” By Roger D. Williams, Master 
of Foxhounds, Iroquois Hunt Club; Keeper Foxhound 
Stud Book, Director National Foxhunters’ Association; 
Official Judge Brunswick Hunt Club; Author of “The 
Greyhound,” “Old Times in the Black Hills,” ‘Wolf 
Coursing,” “The Bloodhound,” etc. Lexington, Ky., 
1905. Price, $2.50. 
no place does the author use words to fill space. 
He uses them ever to communicate some in- 
formation of worth. This is to be expected 
when Col. Williams’ broad and long experi- 
ence is considered. It began in his boyhood 
years. He is Master of Foxhounds Iroquois 
Hunt Club, Keeper Foxhound Stud Book, 
Director National Foxhunters’ Association, and 
Official Judge Brunswick Hunt Club. He also 
judged many times at the great coursing meet- 
ings in the far West, when that sport flourished 
at its highest a few years ago. Nor is “Horse 
and Hound” his first attempt at authorship, for 
he has written often and well. Some of his 
important other works are “The Greyhound,” 
“Old Times in the Black Hills,” “Wolf Cours- 
ing’ and “The Bloodhound.” 
Mr. CHARLES R. WHEELER sends this editorial 
from the Waterbury (Conn.) Republican, with 
the comment that it is cheering: 
“Connecticut game wardens have a way of get- 
ting after slayers of song birds that is gratifying 
not alone to lovers of nature in its wonderful 
animal-life developments, but to the practical man 
of affairs who for utilitarian reasons dislikes to 
witness the destruction of these invaluable de- 
stroyers of insect pests, But it now appears that 
even some of the birds that hunters are allowed 
to kill rank high as protectors of the farmers’ 
crops from destroying insects. Without dispar- 
agement of the ambitions of the hunter, it may be 
well to look the facts in the face and see what 
they mean to the tiller of the soil. 
“The Department of Agriculture has discovered 
that many of the small birds killed by hunters are 
the best friends the farmers have in their fields. 
An investigation of the cotton boll weevil in the 
South has shown that in districts where the birds 
are few the pest is the most destructive. Much 
of the danger is removed where birds are numer- 
ous. Among those receiving special mention for 
destroying insects are the quail, meadow lark, 
sparrow and blackbird. 
“A careful study of the habits of the quail or 
partridge of the Southern States has revealed the 
fact that the bird is valuable for destroying weeds. 
During the summer months the birds pick up 
bugs, crickets and worms that prey on the crops. 
They remove the danger of farming and insure 
annual returns from field and garden if left to 
run about undisturbed. 
“The pests of orchard and field are increasing. 
Special laws are required to prevent the spread 
of injurious insects. Much of that work would 
be unnecessary if the birds were permitted to 
multiply and remain in peace on the farms and 
in the woodlands of the country. 
“The farm is the proper place for beginning a 
campaign of education on bird protection. Every 
farm, whether large or small, is the property of 
some man who has control over its acres. A clean 
farm is worth more money than one laden with 
pests. The farm containing game birds is worth 
more than one having no signs of life in its fields 
or woods. There is a work for every man to per- 
form, and the sooner it is begun the better for 
every orchardist and agriculturist in the land.” 
WartTERLOO, Wis.—There is a word that is used 
greatly here among the Badgers, in their desire 
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