Show VICE ROOSEVELT PRAISES PIONEERS of and debert the gran lest acl leTFin ot the cen tury of I 1 I 1 the annc pal feature of tl e colorado quarto tenn al ele brition at colo rado 1 d i was an address by 11 eodore I 1 oo sevelt v ce pres dent of the united beales on 1 e growth of the debt dui ng tl e last quarter of a century on his arrival colonel cosevelt Po sevelt was welcomed by a orman and staff war school children and many others U 10 he was escorted to th park where he spoke in tl e open air to an assembly of 10 people who gave him an en thusia st on and frequently in 1 s lemarl s with applause lie spoke in part as follows this anniversary wl eh marks tha on by colorado of her first quarter century of ie of in terest not only to 1 er not only to her sisters the states of tl e rocky moun tain region but to our wl ole country with the except on of the admission to statehood state hoo 1 of california no other event emphes zed in such dragat fah on the full mean ng of tl e growth of our country as lid tl e incoming of bolo rado it is a la v of intellectual devel that tl e greatest and most im truths alien once we have be come thoroughly famil with them often because of that very familiarity grow d m in our minds the west ward spread of our people across th a continent has been so rap d and so great 1 as been the r success in taming the rugged wilderness erness turning toe gray desert nto green fertility and fill ing the waste and lonely placer with the eager tl rong ng crowded life of our industrial vil zat on that we have bagun to accept it all as part of the order of nature ou the men of colorado and above all the older a nong those whom I 1 am now address ng have been engaged in doing the great cyp cal work of our people save only the preservation of the union itself no other task aas been so important as the conquest and set of the west this conquest and settlement has been the feat of our race for the century that has just closed it stands supreme among all such feats on and your fathers who bu it up the west did more even than you tl ought for you shaped thereby tl e dest ny of the whole re and as a necessary corollary profoundly influenced tl e course of events throughout the world more and more as the years go by this re public will find its guidance in the thought and action of tl e west because the condit ons of development in the west have steadily tended to accenti ate tl e peculiarly american character chai acter of its people |