that form of barbarism for
the Benighted States.

And pass a law shutting out the machine guns. They are a disgrace to
our country, and a scourge to our game. Continually are they leading
good men astray.

Extend the term of your State Warden to four years.

WYOMING:

The State of Wyoming once had a magnificent heritage of game. It
embraced the Rocky Mountain species, and also those of the great plains.
First and last, the state has worked hard to protect her wild life, and
hold the killing of it down to a decent basis.

As far back as 1889, I met on the Shoshone River a very wide-awake
warden, actually "on his job," who was maintained by a body of private
citizens headed by Col. Pickett and known as the Northern Wyoming Game
Protective Association. And even then we saw that the laws were too
liberal for the game. In one man's cold-storage dug-out we saw enough
sheep, deer and elk meat to subsist a company of hungry dragoons, all
killed and possessed according to law.

In the protection of her mountain game, Wyoming has had a hard task. In
the Yellowstone Park between 1889 and 1894, the poachers for the
taxidermists of Livingston and elsewhere slaughtered 270 bison out of
300; and Howell was the only man caught. England can protect game in
far-distant mountains and wildernesses; but America can not,--or at
least _we don't!_ With us, men living in remote places who find wild
game about them say "To h--- with the law!" They kill on the sly, in
season and out of season, females and males; and the average local jury
simply _will not_ convict the average settler who is accused of such a
trifling indiscretion as killing game out of season when he "needs the
meat."

And so, with laws in full force protecting females, the volume of big
game steadily disappears, _everywhere west of the Alleghanies where the
law permits big-game hunting!_ An interesting chapter might be written
on game exterminated according to law.

The deadly defects in the protection of western big game are:

Structural weakness in the enforcement of the laws;

Collusion between offenders for the suppression of evidence;

Perjury on the witness stand;

Dishonesty and disloyalty on the part of local jurors when friends,
are on trial;

Sympathy of judges for "the poor man" who wants to eat the game to
save his cattle and sheep.

[Illustration: (Map of) STATES AND PROVINCES WHICH REQUIRE RESIDENTS TO
OBTAIN HUNTING LIC