Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1910 — Letter From the State Fish and Game Commissioner. [ARTICLE]

Letter From the State Fish and Game Commissioner.

Indianapolis, Oct. 12, 1910. To the Editor: The wrongful impresion that has gone. out. that I favor a law requiring every person who fishes to pay a dollar a year license, is doing much harm. Will you help me, through your journal, to correct it? There is nothing I desire so much as the good will of the farmers and others who live about our lakes and streams, without some moral support from whom it is almost Impossible for my department to* effectually do its work, and it Is their interests the proposed new law will be intended to serve. They are not to be required to pay license fees. But there are many who go out from the cities to the lakes and streams every year and take the fish out of them without paying anything Into the fund used to replenish them, and these are the ones the law will be Intended to apply to. Nobody will be required to pay a license who does not fish outside the county In which he lives. Nor'will women nor children—persons under twenty-one years old—be taxed. Any one who has a hunter’s license will not need another to permit him to fish. With the money paid by the annual city visitors we could establish brooderies and employ sufficient men to fill the lakes and streams with bass for them, so that their vacations would be much more enjoyable, and the dollar each one of them would pay to us would be the best money spent for liis outing. And the farmers and country people would have the benefit all year of the improved fishing at no expense to themselves. I have believed that such a law would meet the approval of the country people, one of whom I am. If it will not, however, and will cause them to antagonize me, I will drop it, for, as I have said, it is the good will and assistance of these people that I want, first of everything. I would like to have them write me in regard to the matter. Yours very truly, GEO. W. MILES, Commissioner.

The democratic state platform pledges'the repeal of county local option. William Guthrie, the democratic candidate for state representative, declares for the retention of county option and says he will work and vote against its repeal. John Brown, the republican candidate and the present? representative, stands with his party and against repeal. He was the original temperance leader in every fight against saloons in Monon. He is a temperance man and is of known qualities. William Guthrie, a lawyer, refused to act as the attorney for the temperance people in their first fight against the saloons of Monon. He refused because he did not believe in fighting the saloons. William Guthrie has never been a temperance man and is not now except for the votes that he can hoodwink by proclaiming to be. He winks when he pledges his opposition to repeal. A responsible White county democrat remarked the other day that he did not believe William Guthrie was in earnest. “He will be whipped Into line,” he remarked, “when he gets into the fight. He is not a temperance man at heart and the democrats that will vote against the'repeal are democrats who really are temperance men.” William Guthrie will vote for John W. Kern for the United States senate. John Brown will'vote for Albert J. Beveridge. John Kern has grown old with a record that shows nothing of accomplishment. Albert Beveridge has made history and has a record of doing things. The two men can thus be compared. John Brown is a farmer, successful because industrious and qualified by the rough knocks of experience. William Guthrie is a lawyer and has never accomplished anything, and he might forget his platform; he might fall off the water wagon. John Brown is a man of family and has served one term in the legislature with credit to himself and honor to his district. He believes in his platform and will stana by it. Can any republican find any reason for not voting for John Brown? It is a case of knowing what you will get when you support him. It is a case of lottery with the chances against you if you vote for William Guthrie.