The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1908-08-06
glWKEYES OUT
:
IN FULL FORCE
900 GATHER FOR ANNUAL OUTING
Listen to Speeches and Music and Dine
on Barbecued Ox-SOeiety Is in
FlOurishing Condition.

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Hood River their home, their big an.
nual outing, picnic aud meeting last
Thursday was a success. From all
parts of the valley and city members
OF the Hawkeye society and their
friends gathered to listen to oratory
and music and indulge in feasting.
The gathering of the clan took place
at Grange Park and it is estimated
that fully 600 we're present. They ars
rived on the grounds In the morning
and at IL O'Clock proceeded to the
halt, where the exercises were opened
by the audience singing "Americs."
Rev. J. W. Rigby then delivered the
invocation, after which President
Laraway introduced the speaker Of
the day, j. Van Neice Bandy. MIR.
Bandy delivered an eloquent and fin-
ished address. In his opening re.
marks he said:
On this occasion of the annual cele-
bration of Iowa day 1t is my pleasant
task 10 speak for the old Hawkeye
state. This | will do with anticipated
pleasure. l feel that this duty has
decided purpose, for no state, princi-
pality or province In all history will
furnish grsnder lessons in patriotism,
IN righteousness, IN government and
economics.
This pleasant task | am suie ia in
my mission in the great division of
labor under the guidance OF all super
intending providence. For the east
has ever been the repository of wis
dom, of experience, OF precedent and
OF tradition, while the west is the
land of enterprise, awakening and of
opportunity, where those trained in
the old school Of the east find field
for lite's experience In the new school
OF the west. Iowa today is east to
Oregon ,aud west to Massachusetts,,
and In this she Is fortunate, for she
possesses the wisdom OF the east and
the action Of the west. 1t is good for
a web-footed Hawkeye to 90 back to
the old Iowa district school and learn
new lessons on the old benches.
1t Is needless to say that love the
old Hawkeye state, for IL Is the land
of my hoyhood. My earliest recollec-
tions are grouped about the little
school house on one corner OF my
fsther's farm. 1t was In Iowa that
first heard the boys shout, "Come in,
the water is fine." Then, late In the
afternoon, when my conscience smote
me because knew 1T was time for the
cows to be in the back lot, but when l
attempted to leave the cool water the
boys threw mud on my back. Then
late In the evening came the gloom OF
not only the setting sun but Of late
chores. That evening might be
gloomy, but joy cometh in the morn
ing, the joy of catching bull heads In
that deleotable stream inaptly called
Skunk river. love Iowa and today
recall the hazel brush thicket after
the first snow and the old brush heap
surrounded by fresh rabbit tracks.
With what tense excitement tramped
the brush, grasping the old muzzle
loading shot gun. That gun was a
bored out musket that had done SER
vice at Shiloh. Then the fash, a cot
tontail from under the heap and
across the snow, the bang of the gun,
back somersault, and no rabbit.
Then standing with ten other husky
Hswkeye lads on the gridiron, sweat
ing. bleeding aud gasping for breath,
but the pig skin ball safe back OF the
that white line between the two goat
posts. From the bleaohers out In the
clear, cool October air rolled the Iowa
yell
"Hawkeye, Hawkeye,S. U. l.,
Hawkeye, Hawkeye, s. U. l."
My forefathers came through the
Cumberland gap from Virginia into
Kentucky, following upon the heels
of Daniel Bo0ne. They met the scalp
taking Indian and the scalp buying
Britisher ON that OZARK and bloody
ground" and conquered both.
There they fell upon the wilderness
and worked out the problems Of civil
ization with axe and gun. With them
came the preacher, the schoolmaster
and the planter. With the preacher
was the handbook of civilization, the
Bible, with the sohoolmaster we're the
four RS, reading, 'riting, 'Tithmetic,
and the rod, and that was education
all right; with the planter came the
negro and slave problem. The circuit
reading preacher, like Peter Cart
wright, strong In word and fist,
solved the moral and religious prob
lens. The schoolmasteI worked out
the problems of civilization by the
rule of three, but blood alone solved
the problem of the negro slave.
He then told of the wisdom of Thos,
Jefferson and statesmen of his time
in making the Louisiana purchase,
part of which included what Is now
the state of Iowa, and stated that the
great development of the state could
be summed up in two words, "Yankee
sagaoity." Continuing Mr.. Bandy
said:
Our nation is great, not for its size,
not altogether for the achievements
of its people, but largely for the i'm.
mensity of its natural wealth. Prao-
tically all wealth originates in the soil
and the maintenance of soil fertility
Ia the rightful heritage Of posterity.
; Nay, more than this, the lawful guar
dians Of these natural resources should
protect them from the vandalism oi
exploitation of the vulgar, get-rich.
quick, destructive methods employed
on the bonanza farms of the great
northwest and 10 the numbering bust.
ness. 1t is a fragrant disgrace to
American citizenship that the COVER
nors of states, senators, congressman
and state officials have been and are
|, in league with this vandalism to ex.
plot and devastate this nation of heI
: natural wealth aud thus to impoverist
posterity. Oregon is land of lordly
forests and untold natural wealth, yet
today / read in our paper that 1t will