order to accomplish
results. Bad repeal bills must be fought until they are dead; and good
protective bills must be supported until the breath of life is breathed
into them by the executive signature.

With money in hand, good men aways can be found who will work in game
protection for about one-half what they would demand in other pursuits.
With the men _whom, you really desire_, sentiment is always a
controlling factor. It is my inflexible rule, however, in asking for
services, that men who give valuable time and strength to the cause
shall not be allowed to take their expense money from their own pockets.
Soldiers on the firing line _cannot_ provide the sinews of war that come
from the paymaster's chest!

Campaigns of publicity are matters of tremendous necessity and
importance; but their successful promotion requires hundreds, or
possibly thousands of dollars, for each state that is covered.

I believe that the wealthy men and women of America are the most liberal
givers for the benefit of humanity that can be found in all the world.
New York especially contains a great number of men who year in and year
out work hard for money--in order to give it away! The depth and breadth
of the philanthropic spirit in New York City is to me the most
surprising of all the strange impulses that sway the inhabitants of that
seething mass of mixed humanity. Every imaginable cause for the benefit
of mankind,--save one,--has received, and still is receiving, millions
of gift dollars.

Some enterprises for the transcendant education of the people are at
this moment hopelessly wallowing in the excess of wealth that has been
thrust upon them. Men are being hired at high salaries to help spend
wealth in high, higher, highest education and research. It is now
fashionable to bequeath millions to certain causes that do not need them
in the least! In education there is a mad scramble to educate every
young man to the topmost notch, often far above his probable station in
life, and into tastes and wants far beyond his powers to maintain.

In all this, however, there would be no cause for regret if the wild
life of our continent were not in such a grievous state. If we felt no
conscience burden for those who come after us, we would not care where
the millions go; but since things are as they are, it is heartbreaking
to see the cause of wild-life protection actually starving, or at the
best subsisting only on financial husks and crumbs, wh