is willing to set a new pace for the world's great
universities, she has the Man ready at hand.

_The University of Chicago_ should become the center of a great new
protectionist movement which should cover the whole Middle West area,
from the plains to Pittsburgh. This is the inflexible, logical necessity
of the hour. _Either protect zoology, or else for very shame give up
teaching it_!

_Every higher institution of learning in America now has a duty in this
matter_. Times have changed. Things are not as they were thirty years
ago. To allow a great and valuable wild fauna to be destroyed and wasted
is a crime, against both the present and the future. If we mean to be
good citizens we cannot shirk the duty to conserve. We are trustees of
the inheritance of future generations, and we have no right to squander
that inheritance. If we fail of our plain duty, the scorn of future
generations surely will be our portion.

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CHAPTER XLIV

THE GREATEST NEEDS OF THE WILD-LIFE CAUSE AND THE DUTY OF THE HOUR

The fate of wild life in North America hangs to-day by three very
slender threads, the names of which you will hardly guess unaided. They
are Labor, Money and Publicity! The threads are slender because there is
so little raw material in them.

We do not need money with which to "buy votes" or "influence," but money
with which to pay workers; to publish things to arouse the American
people; to sting sportsmen into action; to hire wardens; to prosecute
game-hogs and buy refuges for wild life. If a sufficient amount of money
for these purposes cannot be procured, then as sure as the earth
continues to revolve, our wild life will pass away, forever.

This is no cause for surprise, or wonder. In this twentieth century
money is essential to every great enterprise, whether it be for virtue
or mischief. The enemies of wild life, and the people who support them,
are very powerful. The man whose pocket or whose personal privilege is
threatened by new legislation is prompted by business reasons to work
against you, and spend money in protecting his interests.

Now, it happens that the men of ordinary means who have nothing personal
at stake in the preservation of wild life save sentimental
considerations, cannot afford to leave their business more than three or
four days each year on protection affairs. Yet many times services are
demanded for many days, or even weeks together, in