Identifier: birdlore14nati (find matches)
Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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nings. 13. Because it is not only a crime, butan insensate blunder, for the BritishGovernment to allow the profits of a fewLondon feather dealers to be obtained at aloss to the agricultural interests of theColonies. Whatever is detrimental tothe agricultural interests of the Coloniesmust tend in the long run to injure GreatBritain, 14. Because labor—even if this argu-ment could be raised as an excuse fordealing in the property of others—derivesno benefit from the traffic in contrabandfeathers. These feathers are for the mostpart used in their natural state, little orno manipulation being required to adaptthem to millinery purposes. If theseillicit feathers were excluded from ourmarkets, manj people would find employ-ment in the manufacture of substitutesfrom the more common fca.hers. 15, Because the armoury of the BritishGovernment is destitute of all weaponsby which the illegal trafl&c in the plumageof the birds of the Colonies can be de-fended. It has never even attempted to
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MR. JAMES BUCKLAXD, THE ENGLISH BIRD PROTECTIONISTPhotof;ra;)h by J. Russell and Son, London (322) The Audubon Societies 323 show llu- niid lor trading in snui^fikdgoods; llu- moral juslitu alion of il; or llubenofil lo llu- laboring classes of ihiscountry which llows from it. 16. liccausc, if a Plumage Bill wen-passed in this country, it woidd make iteasy for those who arc doinj, a \())unlar\-work of inestimable value to llu- l,ni))ircto procure the passage of similar Hills inother lluropean Parliaments. .\s il is,the vicious exam))le set by (Ireat Britainparalyzes every effort in that direction. Surel\- no one can read the abovear<,umenls for the passage of this measurewiilu)ul being impressed with the worth-iness of the Hill and ihc necessity for itscnactnu-nl. Phere are among the readersof Bird-Lore many people who haveinfluence in England, and we earnestlyurge, if this article comes to their atten-tion, that they will at once seek to bringpressure to bear on the Members ofParl

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