THE FUR CRUSADE
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The following extracts from a letter received from the President of the-o-Antr-Steel-Trap League, which is the most
its kind in America, will I think
see your letters in the Spectator and 'references to the Anti-Steel-Trap
Lenuao a- Your success with girls' schools is,4 think, quite phenomenal Do try what you can do over here with the following schools."
(Here a list is given, which I asked for). _ - " There is this to be said for the fur trarapersin-Bils Rolm–try:. They are cognisant of a very great trend towards humaneness in the treatment of animals through this organization and others. The sentiment is sweeping the country ; and they are now advocating in trapping magazines, and wherever they use the printed word, humaneness in taking fur-bearers. That is to say, the spokesmen of the American Trappers' Association are doing so. There are thousands of ignorant trappers, who never read, who never see what is written, and these men go right on in the usual manner.
Before we organized and spread this propaganda concerning powerful organiza interedlOw Ire I am al's' thank yqu.7tor Ito
the trap line, no mention was ever made of brutality in trapping —and no care was taken by the trapper to avoid it. That much we have certainly accomplished. We have put the writing on the wall. You are doing this in England with every leaflet you send out ; it is bound to have its effect.
Our laws are being fought savagely by the vested interests even now. The battle is not won when they are written on the statute book ; but we are always faced with the necessity of protecting them. I think your Crusade against trapped fur will go a long way to make fur farming a necesSity."
I have now sent out 155,000 leaflets, free of charge, and am only waiting for funds to do more.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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