Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 119, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1920 — Protect Insect-Killing Birds. [ARTICLE]

Protect Insect-Killing Birds.

We have come to an era of birdlife conservation. Economic, humane and sentimental Interests, united In common cause, have won in the long contest In which bird life was at stake. It Is lamentably true that we have lost forever some dozens of species and that the fate of twice as many more Is hanging In the balance, but, says William M. Morrill in Our Dumb Animals, the tide of destruction has been stemmed, the hand of the despeller stayed; henceforth safety supplants slaughter, preservation takes the place of persecution.