With fly-rod and camera . the hemp has its own out in ^ Territory has a law forbidding the killing of game for market. In spite ofthis, skin hunters and meat hunters have in 3ears past invaded the Territory andplied their trade. This can be done no longer with impunity. Public feeling ison the side of the law. Upon which the Report makes the following comment: Where interference with game law breakers has resulted in personal violence andcrime, the fact has stood clearly revealed that the offenders against the game lawsare desperate characters, and when these offenses are regarded
With fly-rod and camera . the hemp has its own out in ^ Territory has a law forbidding the killing of game for market. In spite ofthis, skin hunters and meat hunters have in 3ears past invaded the Territory andplied their trade. This can be done no longer with impunity. Public feeling ison the side of the law. Upon which the Report makes the following comment: Where interference with game law breakers has resulted in personal violence andcrime, the fact has stood clearly revealed that the offenders against the game lawsare desperate characters, and when these offenses are regarded with leniency, thetone of the communitv is abased. It Mas so with the Maine Shacker incendiaries,the doggers who killed the Maine wardens, the New Brunswick salmon spearers,and the Wyoming skin hunters. Lawlessness, with respect to one class of statutes,here means rebellion against good order and the bonds of society. Desperate mis-creants who break the game laws show themselves ready to stand at nothing, noteven 404 With Fly-Rod and Camera. the blankets, and in a very few minutes the heavy breath-ing of my companions indicated that they were in theland of dreams. I quickly followed them, and was soonin imagination holding a poacher with one hand and play-ing a twenty-pound salmon with the other, a feat whichin my waking moments I should be loth to undertake.
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