The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1902-02-13
CAME PROTECTION.
Major Lacey Given Ovation by
"Boone and Crockett" Club.

CiPdi duuIoeb D6IOr6 Uno WOriu-Idneu
Boone and Crockett" club, of New
York City, upon the occasion of it's
annual meeting and banquet, held at
the Metropolitan club house in Wash
ington. Upon this suspicious oc-
casion the president of the United
States was present-you could not
keep him away from banquet OF
understand responded to toast,
following Major Lacey. Among the
other speakers Of the evening were
Senator Proctor, Senator CLARK, of
Montana, Senator Keane, OF New
Jersey, and the most distinguished
and eminent biologists and museum
men in the world. Major Lacey, as
chairman of the committee on public
lands of the house, and a sort of
recognized authority upon matters OF
game and game preserves, was very
properly choeen to make the principal
address and that he succeeded in
pleasing the distinguished audience
is evidenced by the fact that Presl-
dent Roosevelt, who spoke immedi-
ately after Major Lacey, took as his
text portion OF the latter's remarks,
notably that touching the destruction
of the forests throughout the country,
The presidentnot only endorsed what
Mr.. Lacey said, most heartily, pay.
ing the congressman high personal
tribute, but enlarged upon the same
topic and hammered little harder
upon some of the points suggested
by Major Lacey.
Altogether the meeting and ban
quet was one of the biggest events of
the social season in Washington, and
Iowa, as usual, carried off fret honors,
occupying position at the left of the
president of the Boone and Crockett"
club, while the president of the United
States sat upon his right.
Lacey On Game.
Congressman Lacey was in his hap
piest mood and spoke for more than
half an hour. He said in part: 81
thank you for the opportunity to ad-
dress this meeting of mighty hunters.
But we do not take counsel how to
kill but how to preserve.
"The name OF your society would
indicate That you are club of slayers
The letter killeth but the spirit
maketh alive. How to STAY in moder-
alton and 10 preserve for the future
is the problem now confronting all
genuine sportsmen. We will not
nave many big game stories here to.
night.
Ebony Hughes was the black
boatman at southern lake. A
northern visitor inquired of him il he
was good man to bait hook His
reply was: Boss, am the best man
to bait hooks in Louisiana. The last
man baueu hooks for got turned
out of church just for telling the
troof abou. the fish he caught But
no good sportsman will magnify the
size of hi Ca en- of fish or bag OF
game these uays. There are game
hogs and fish hogs still, but they are
not associated with gentlemen around
board like this.
Our ancestors were killers. Prehis-
toric man with his club and stone
weapons no doubt exterminated the
mammoth. II these cruel ancestors
OF ours had owned breech leaders,
the progenitors of the horse, the
COW, the sheep and OK would have
disappeared from earth long before
domestication. The boy OF today is
as bloody minded as his naked fore
father and begins to STAY the birds
and beasts as soon as he can hold a
stone in bis chubby hands. From
the days of the Troglodyt the un-
aqual contest has ragged. Stone, bronze,
iron, are added to mans power to
destroy. But now with a breech-
loader and later improved weapons,
man has become omnidestructive,
He goes five hundred miles for a
days shooting, or half way around
the world for brief hunting and
fishing trip.
THE immensely of mans power to
slay imposes great responsibilities
We are confronted with the probable
extinction of many varieties of birds
and beasts. A birdless world would
be dreary place to live in and a
birdless air would be unfit to breathe.
"The wild pigeon has gone to join
the great aux and the dodo in the
realm of obliteration.
shame on Them.
1--WE may we'll pause and consider
the situation with which we are con-
fronted. / read the other day of a
hunt in the south when two promin-
emit gentlemen from New York killed
sixteen hundred ducks In two days
and generously gave them away to
show that they were not mere ordin-
airy pot hunters. These sportsmen
should have rather hired out or vol
unteered to stick pigs for two days
for Swift or Armour, where they
might have glutted their appetites
for gore in a more creditable way.
The reckless, improvident, and in
discriminate slaughter of our fish in
the rivers and the seas are only IL
Illustrations of that large waste of our
national resources going on in all
directions. The natural gas was we'll
worshipped as something super
natural. Now il is used for the most
practical of all purposes. But IT has
been as recklessly wasted as though
it were infinite in quantity and the
depleted fields show the results of
our extravaganza.
"Oil and forests have been extrava-
gantly exploited in the same way.
Since l have been in public life have
devoted much of my time to the sub
ject of the conversation and restora-
ton of our natural resources. 1t is a
shocking thing to see the people OF
the Pacific coast wantonly engaged
in making their populous salmon