New-York tribune., 1908-03-22

IOWA SOCIETY DINNER
TWO GOVERNORS SPEAK.
More than 2o5 Hasckeyes and Guests
Hear HUGHES and Cummlns.

Governor Hughes spoke to the Iowa Society at
the Hotel Plaza last night on the duties OF GU
zenship but he came to that part of his ad-
dress after he had welcomed Iowas Governor
Albert B. Cummins to the state, expressing the
hone that the citizens of that commonwealth
who had come to this city to enjoy ITS dressings
had not lost the virtues of their nome SOIL ne
exhorted the Iowans not to give their first atteh-
ton to national affairs The city should come
first in their thoughts, he said, and added that
In this city the greatest problems TO pe
solved.
.Be not so earnest in chasing the dollar he
urged that you forget to help your fellow men
This sentiment was warmly cheered- And when
he said that in the fight for right it did not
matter who was on the other side, the people
could and would win for righteousness, there
came a burst of applause that had the ring OF
the West in it.
When Governor Hughes introduced by
General Grenville NJ. Dodge, the president of the
society the welcome was so tumultuous that II
was several minutes before he could speak. Then
he said:
This is one of the happy bufdens New
York i am not here for a speech, but to join
YOU in a welcome 10 your Governor. who is here
in agreeable and extra-territorial jurisdiction.
The hours of governor are given over TO con-
sidsraton exhorafon and ts sTa ,itia
in Brooklyn over the opening of an arrnory OF
militia indeed, of which 1 fear ali citizens know
far too little and ought TO know much glyIng, b
in the Spanish war and one thousand enlisted
men,
York who were once citizens of Iowa - l trust ,sd
| virtue of their native soil, Some people have a
strange idea of New York, 1t can readily e
TO be committed In this state not all COM
| mitted by the native born .-.-.-
societies They keep alive the interest in the old
is in us an excess and an esuberance Of PATRIOTISM
that cannot expend itself in the state of ones ac-
| for. the state of ones birth
fm a a M % saRr e sTe here the the 6s
lest of all problems TO solve. How glad would
| Yorkers 1 have attended Welsh dinners. Irish
| dinners, German dnneys; dinners of sons Of all
eet eke ieaTe b these 81. N ydIdrs that meet
they come TO tell the executive about his duties
| There was lot of laughter at this sally The
| Governor then said that they were all New
Workers, he was a New Yorker, an upstate New
Yorker. of which he could boast we'll as
| those who claimed birth in far distant states.
| Continuing, he said:
| All the city, of New York. all the State of New
! York. offer of good and bad are simply the marks
house of the American nation. Here are focused
| are all of power and supernal ambition. They
come here seeking opportunities But 1t MAJ; ma ne De
| the limits that should be to their own oppor-
aT he f fnT TeaIed W All ar@ seeRing chance
| Consequently here we have wide examples Of viz.
tue, excesses of vice, extremes of ambition acnes
| But 1 believe there is no place in the world
where will find more honest ambition than risIt
| here in this city of New York Nor more intel
ican ideals than right here in the Empire state
Now it IS great mistake TO believe that in New
York human nature is different from human nature
! in Des Moines. Cedar Rapids or Burlington What
men do and viii do is bound more by ambition
than by state of origin There is Just as 81, much pct
! from Iowa who comes New York there is to
se fee eOy We o eaeh other little better
by these constant nterchanges OF good feenng.
| The from Iowa know the men from New. York
| The men of Iowa who go back to Iowa If they
| say truly when thev go back. VIII that here
In New simply the city OF endeavor, anlbi-
! ii is the United States in New York that makes
| New York.
! Then the Governor spoke of the vast foreign
populations here, Irish, Germans and Italians
and others. all good American citizens in the
| making. He went on:
It is perhaps a truism that New Workers do not
know New York. The Wall Street man leaves his
business, Journeys uptown in car or train, or
| perhaps walks up Broadway. stops in at his club
York. his city vet that is what thousands do
! New York is changing constantly from day to day,
and the conditions that mark progress are
| being studied with very little intelligence.
| He urged his hearers to go to the Ameri-
| can Museum of Natural History and study there
| the problem shown by the city congestion ex-
| hibit. The Governor continued
| Go there and learn that there arc the greatest
problems facing in this country. Right here
is the test of patriotism Let it be understood
| that no man should srappIe with The problems Of
the nation IL lie does not first grapple with the
problems which lie his own doo: It is up to
| you. 1t is up to ali of Don't try to escape
responsibility for these things upon any ground
+; distant birth. Don't be earnest chasing the
almighty dollar that you forget heIp your fellow
man.
| don't think the average American is much of Il