The San Francisco call., 1903-09-10
PREDICTS BRIGHT
FUTURE FOR LAND
SO WELL BELOVED

~ RAND PRESIDENT H. r. Memo
BILE was the orator of the day.
~ He was received with cheers and
delivered an eloquent address. He spoke
as follows:
Mr. President Pioneers, Native Daughters,
Native Sons Ladies and Gentlemen: What
a fitting tribute after ffty-three years, we,
native sons and native daughters. children and
grandchildren Of the pioneers. have come back
to san lose. the first capital of the State OF
California and few of those old pioneers.
TO commemorate the birthday Of cur beloved
State.
What the pioneers began so auspiciously
hfty-threc years ago to-day, their natural
heirs native sons and native daughters
proud to carry on and build up. 1t is
but the natural impulse OF our hearts, prompt
ed by patriotism and loyalty, that has
called US together In the hospitable city of
San Jose. The thousands gathered here to-
day are but the living evidences Of the patriot
ism and loyalty Of the citizens Of our entire
State.
The Native Sons Of the Golden West are
not alone organized to preserve the fame of
ers but TO carry on with unceasing zeal the
grand work OF building up our great State,
fostering and developing Its wondrous re-
sources and educating its sons and daughters.
The order of the Native Sons of the Golden
West is not a selfish organization; it is found
ed upon the broad and undying principles
of friendship. loyalty and charity.
1t organized for the mutual benefit,
mental Improvement and social intercourse Of
us IneuDeTSs 10 peTpeluate III the minds or
all native Californians the memories OF one
of the most wonderful epochs in the world S
history-''the days of '49"-to unite them in
one harmonious body throughout the State by
the ties of friendship mutually beneficial
to all and unalloyed by the bitterness of re-
ligious or political differences the discussion
of which is most stringently forbidden in its
meetings: to elevate and cultivate the mental
faculties; to rejoice with one another in pros
perity, and TO extend the good Samaritan
hand in adversely.
The members must bear a good reputation
for sobriety and industry; they must follow
some respectable calling by which to make
sociation. IL encourages temperance among its
members and recommends total abstinence
from all intoxicating drinks
Coupled with us in our daily worlk-cheerful
in their labors brilliant in their public ex-
pressions loyal in their devotion to our Stale
Golden West-our mothers, our wives our sis
ters, our daughters and our sweethearts are
doing noble work for our State and our ma
ton.
In caring for the sick, in nurturing the or
phans. in burying the dead. in fostering every
mankind and the Improvement of internal con-
d!tens in California, the Native Daughters of
the Golden West are impressng their maenifi-
cent womanhood upon the entire State.
Every citizen Of California owes an everlast
ing obligation to those hardy sons of every
gers of unknown land to lay the founda
tion stones of this great commonwealth; those
Argonauts-
who crossed the plains, as of old the Pill
grims crossed the sea,
To make the West, as they the East, the
homestead Of the free"
As the descendants of those hardy Pioneers.