Identifier: birdlore141912nati (find matches)
Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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warnings. 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, many 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 traffic in the plumageof the birds of the Colonies can be de-fended. It has never even attempted to
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MR. JAAIL.-. l;LCkLAND, THE ENGLISH BIRD IKO 1 i;( rin\ I vPhotograph by J. Russell and Son, London (322) The Audubon Societies 323 show the need for trading in smuggledgoods; the moral justification of it; or thebenefit to the laboring classes of thiscountry which flows from it. 16. Because, if a Plumage Bill werepassed in this country, it would make iteasy for those who are doing a voluntarywork of inestimable value to the Empireto procure the passage of similar Bills inother European Parliaments. As it is,the vicious example set by Great Britainparalyzes every effort in that direction. Surely no one can read the abovearguments for the passage of this measurewithout being impressed with the worth-iness of the Bill and the necessity for itsenactment. There 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 ofParliament and urge

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