Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1907 — About The Game Law. [ARTICLE]

About The Game Law.

It is now announced from Washngton that Hie influence of “vested ntereste'' have killed the Philip pine tariff bill, the immigrate n bill and the ship subsidy bill for this season Ivt' 1c ist. —The Philip : pine bill is one which every element of pi'lice and fairness towards the Philippine demand to l>e passed, while every consider- 1 at ion of patriotism and the best in terests t>f I he whole people-require the immigration and shipping bills. Regarding the shipping bill it is Laly a marvel how sjrong aud hitter and unreasoning remains the feeling agailist this measure all thru the interior portions of the country, and how tin* people, othetwi'U stnmg piotecti.-'ni'*!'.,' in • this in after —pFr’bst —m lead of such free trade papers as the Indianapolis Ncws. rather tlran Their own leading papers and such great 1 eaders as Roose velt This long fight for American merchant ships on the ocean is very similar, to only worse than the long battle with' blind prejudice and short sighted ignorance, that the country went thru for nearly 20 ye irs before any steps were taken to build up a modern American navy.

The Democratic bretheru here are not falling xirer ea ch other in their zeal to attend the Jackson Day exercises at Lafayette, today. Peter Hordeman, Eli Gerber and N. Littlefield are all so far heard Oj who have gone or going. Most of them, like Brother Babcock of the Democrat, are too busy, making mouey these prosperous Republican times to be willing to spare the time to attend. -

The fact does not seem to be generally known that there is a section of the game law passed two years ago by which the punishment for hunting on Sunday is from *1 to SSO fine uuder section 606 of the 1905 acts, and uuder section 626 of the same acts ifyou plead guilty, a fine of *2O must be asses- ' for the benefit of the state gam *ardeu. Note the point ifyou "plc.al guilty” tbejustice of the peace has no option. Ifyou have a trial the jury may only fine you sl. It is something of an ethical question as to who and what the present game laws are for. It has been charged that this Sunday clause was put iu to protect the j game from being killed by the poor ] people who work, and to keep it for the rich and professional hunters. Anyway there were no hitches' iu the way the machine worked; when Lee Martin, deputy game wardeD, caught George Sheelz, Peteo Xitel)el, Jr., Henry Gerlacb. j Lon Weddle aud Elmer Campbell hunting last Sunday, and it cost ‘them over *3O each in Squiie Stevenson’s court Monday.—Moral —Don't hunt on Sunday.—Fowler Review.