Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-04
Believers Address Before Boone and
Crockett Club.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WAS PRESENT
Responds to Toast Following the
Congressman from the Sixth Con-
gressionaI District of Iowa-CIub Is
Composed of Hunters.
Washington Bureau the Courier.

Washington, D. c., Jan. 81, 1902.
Congressman Lacey delivered the
principal address before the world
famed Boone and Crockett" club of
New York City, upon the occasion of
its annual meeting and banquet, held
at the Metropolitan Club house in
Washington. Upon this suspicious
occasion the President of the United
States was present-you could not
keep him away from a banquet of
understand responded to a toast, fol-
lowing Major Lacey Among the 9th
er speakers of the evening were Sena-
tor Proctor, Senator Clark of Mon
tana, Senator Keane, of New Jersey,
and the most distinguished and emil
nent biologists and muesum men in
the world. Major Lacey, as chairman
of the committee on public lands of
the house, and a sort of recognized au-
thority upon matters Of game and
game preserves, was very properly
chosen to make the principal address
and that he succeeded in pleasing the
distinguished audience is evidenced
by the fact that President Roosevelt,
who spoke Immediately after Major
Lacey, took as his text a portion of the
ing the destruction of forests through
out the country. The President not
only endorsed what Mr.. Lacey said,
most heartily, paying the congressman
a high personal tribute, but enlarged
upon the same topic and hammered a
little harder upon some of the points
suggested by Major Lacey.
Altogether the meeting and banquet
was one of the biggest events of the
social season in Washington, and
Iowa, as usual carrdie off first honors,
occupying position at the left of the
President of the Boone and Cricket
club, while the President of the Unit
ed States sat upon his right.
Congressman Lacey was in his hap
piest mood and spoke for more than
half an hour. He said in part:
Il thank you for the opportunity to
address this meeting of mighty hunt
ers. But we do not take counsel how
to kill but how to preserve.
''The name of your society would in.
dictate that you are a club of slayers.
The letter killeth but the spirit max
eth alive. How to STAY in moderation
and to preserve for the future is the
problem now confronting all genuine
sportsmen. We will not have many
big game stories here tonight.
Ebony Hughes was the black boat,
man at the southern lake. A northern
visitor inquired of him if he was a
good man to bait hook. His reply
was: Boss, am the best man to bait
hooks in Louisiana. The last man !
bafted hooks for got turned out of
church just for telling the troof about
the fish he caught But no good
sportsman will magnify the size OF
his catch of fish or bag of game these
days. There are game hogs and fish
hogs still, but they are not associated
with gentlemen around board like
this.
Our ancestors were killers. Pre-.
historic man with his club and stone
weapons no doubt extinguished the
mammoth. If these cruel ancestors OF
ours had owned breech leaders the
progenitors of the horse, the COW, the
sheep, and OK would have disappeared
from the earth long before domestica
ton. The boy of today is as bloody
minded as his naked forefather and
soon as he can hold stone in his
begins to slay the birds and beasts as
chubby hands. From the days OF
Troglodyt the unequal contest has rag
ed. Stone, bronze, iron, are added to
mans power to destroy. But now with
a breech loader and later improved
weapons, man has become omnide
structive. He goes five hundred miles
i for days shooting or half way around
the world for a brief hunting or fish
ing trip.
"The immensely of mans power tc
STAY imposes great responsibilities
We are confronted with the probable