| Show f I I I inoiKmi A Remedy J A Aim for Some Forms of Selfish Legislation President Huish Cashier) Lewis V ROOSEVELT IE CAM III Attends the Great Frontier Celebration TALKS from an article by Theodore Rooeevelt In The Outlook by epeetal of which Theodors Roosevelt la Contributing with 2’he Outlook 1810 All Rlghta Reserved by The Outlook Company Copyright 10116 Days at Cheyenne OF VIRTUES OF WEST Reprinted arrangement Editor Drafts drawn on all the principal cities of the United States and Europe Banking in all its various forms Accounts Respectfully Solicited Four per cent interest paid on time deposits SHE MEATS and GROCERIES hides oeo w for the table for pelts WASTED Everything Fresh and Fine all occasions loso prop The White Front Market SCENIC LINE OF THE WORLD Three Fast flyers Daily BETWEEN and Ogden ot Routes Choloe Denver For Folders Booklets Louis St Etc address Salt Lake Trs’os Leave Sallna North bound I Is Slsopsrs Chicago Gen At Pass bound 2:21 Dep Utah a j Tourist 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and look Our goods are the best and our price the lowest our line and be convinced TO-DA- Y August number of the Work contains an which Is of Interest all who are concerned In the vital subject to which we give the somewhat foggy title of "Political Reform’ The article for obvious reasons Is written of by a member who the editors of the congress World's for Work say has served more than ten years In the house of representatives has acted on many important committees and has been successful In “getting things” ' for his constituency The article is described as "showing the reason why the special tariff favorB and private pension bills become law" the reason being to quote the words of the author that “the dictum of the constituency to the congressman Is ’Get all you can for US There are 'no restrictions placed upon his method of getting it Until the American people themselves become more national and less local until constituencies cease to regard their congressmen as solicitors at the national treasury congress will continue to enact iniquitous groups of local favors into national legislation” This serious charge against the American people — for which there is unquestionably altogether too much to Justification — the author proceeds substantiate by relating some of his own experiences with constituents which however surprising they may Beem to the general reader will seem almost commonplace to all who know how the average constituency does in actual practice treat its congressman The writer sets forth the fact that In the first place ninety per cent of the letters which a congressman receives are requests for special favors to be obtained in some way or other from the United directly or indirectly States treasury For instance while the tariff law was under discussion this particular con-received In May 1909 the gressman following letter from the secretary of a powerful commercial association in his district: “I have been instructed by the board of directors of this association to advise you that at special meeting May 20 a resolution copy of which Is inclosed was unanimously urgadopted ing our representatives in congress to use every endeavor to have the present tariff in (mentioning three of the products of the Industries referred to) increased one cent per pound and the on present tariff the oth(mentioning er two products) increased half a cent I wish to further advise per pound you that we have heard from Senator and he Informs us that he will take care of this matter In the a trade over Is a good time to have your name placed on our — subscription list M When the bill was finally passed the congressman succeeded In adding half a cent a pound to the duty on two of these products and In preventA on the others ing any reduction year later when the popular clamor the bill had become acute against the same association that had asked him to vote for Increases wrote to the the bill as congressman denouncing “the most iniquitous measure ever enacted by congress” and requesting him to explain by letter why he had to pass voted with “the Reactionaries” When it was pointed out to the bill the association that It had urged the to obtain an increase of congressman duty on the products in which it was interested it dropped Its demand for newsan explanation An Influential In his district edipaper published torially commended him while the bill was under debate for his “intelligent efforts” to increase the duty on manufactured articles In which the district was Interested and a year later the same newspaper In the same editorial column denounced him as one of “the banditti responsible for the legislative measure” River and harbor legislation Is another field In which local selfishness of nabusies itself to the exclusion In this case requests tional needs are not made by letter but by delegacome to which tions Washington besieging their senators and representatives “There is” says the frank writer of this article “figuratively speaking between $50000000 and on the table to be divided The committee divides it so that every one is satisfied at least to a reasonable extent” Every one that is but the people at large the people who have no special interest to serve and who feel keenly indignant that the rivers and harbors of the United States are developed Ip a fashion so Inferior to ' that of Europe Nor are all the requests for legisOne constituent delation merely sired to have this particular congressman put his name on the free mailing That list for fill public documents because it this would be Impossible to the appliwould mean delivering cant several tons of documents every mouth does not In the slightest detract from the Interest of the fact elicited by an investigation that the applicant was the manufacturer of an article made from waste paper and the public doc uments would afford a very useful source of raw material Is there a remedy for such a state of things? The answer is yes and moreover it is a remedy which congress can itself immediately provide There is no complete of remedy course No scheme can be devised which can prevent sueh a request as that of the constituent last named who wished public documents to use in his private paper business Requests like this merely mean that In will always every district individuals be found who will request improper favors As regards these people all that can be done is to create a' vigorous public opinion — an opinion whiob shall not only make It uncomfortable for any man to demand such favors but which shall cordially support the in refusing them and congressman hold him accountable for granting them and has long Congress has now had the power to rid its members of almost all the improper pressure brought to bear upon the individual by special Interests — great and small fecal and metropolitan —on such subriver and jects as tariff legislation harbor legislation and pension legislation has not exercised Congress this power chiefly because of what I am bound to regard as a very shortsighted and unwise belief that it is beneath its dignity to delegate any of its functions By passing a rule which would forbid the reception or passage of any pension bill save the pension recommended legislation by the commissioner of pensions (this of course to be rejected or amended as congress saw fit but not so amended as to Include any special or private legiswould at once do lation) congress away with the possibility of its members being subject to local pressure for improper private pension )ills and at the same time guarantee proper treatment for the veteran who really done does deserve to have everything for him that the country can afford In the case of the tariff and the what is river and harbor legislation needed in each case is ample proviof the highest sion for a commission possible grade composed of men who know the subject and wbc thoroughly possess every attribute required for the performance of the great and difficult task of framing in outline the legislation that the country as distinguished from Bpecial interests These men from the really needs very nature of the case will be wholly free from the local pressure of special Interests so keenly felt by every man who is dependent upon the vote of a particular district every two years life in public for his continuance Such a river and harbor commission could report and probably would renaport a great and comprehensive tional scheme for river and harbor Imby provements fit to be considered Its whole a as merits upon the people and not dependent for enactment Into of law upon a system to placate special Interests designed which are powerful in each of many districts Such score congressional could get at the a tariff commission facts of labor cost here and abroad by expert inquiry and not by the acsuch ceptance of Interested testimony a commission could consider dispassionately the probable effect upon the entire social and economic body of all changes In any given branch of the would tariff and Its recommendations of careful represent the exercise standjudgment from a disinterested point Such a commission could work of in harmony with the commissioner labor so as to Insure that the laborers for whom the tariff is passed get the full benefit of It for the major part of the benefit of a protective tariff should unquestionably go to the Even under such conditions of tariffmaking errors might be committed but they would be merely those errors disinterested Judgment Incidental to 'fevejy kind of public or for the matter of that private effort and the work from the bewould not be hampered ginning by the need of gratifying private selfishness It is only In this way that tariff legislation river and harbor legislation and pension legislation can be treated from the standpoint of principle and not from the very low standpoint of privilege and preference The obstacle hitherto to the adoption of such a method of treatment has come from the queer dislike felt by so many leaders to a course of congressional action which they (quite unjustifiably) feel would In some way be a limitation I think this feeling of their powers is passing It is simply another Instance of the kind of feeling which suspicious makes some executives about delegating their work to any subordinate and which makes many voters who have not pondered the matter deeply desire to elect great numbers of people on a ticket of such length that it is out of the question for any except professional politicians to know much about them ROOSEVELT THEODORE PosPioneers and Their Successor sessore of Masterful Qualities Which Lie at Foundation of Na- Greatnesa tlon’a Cheyenne Wyo Aug '27 — When Colonel Roosevelt stepped from the Sioux Falls at 10:25 this morning he was greeted with the character istlo yell ‘of the range giveiw by a thousand cowboys and cowgirls who were on band to act as an escort to the distinguished visitor The shout so familiar to him in days of old made him laugh aloud 4n glee and he grasped the bands of every one who could get near enough to him Mr Roosevelt’s visit and the speech he delivered later in the day formed the culmination ot the annual Frontier Wuich had attracted Days celebration to the city thousands of persons from all parts of the west and a large number of tourists from more distant sections of the country train at Colonel Roosevelt’a Speech Out in the open air under the blue to hear sky a vast crowd assembled the former president speak and it beard one of the most important he has made since leaving speeches the White House His address was as follows: When at the cloee of my hunting trip In Africa I reached the borders ef civilisation the first Invitation I accepted was this to visit the capital of Wyoming on the day when the people of the frontier to commemorate their came together achievements: I was glad It was so because I have a peculiar feeling for the men and women of what used to be called the “Far West” and especially for those For a number of of the cattle country years I lived on a ranch on the Little Missouri sharing work and play good fortune and bad fortune with my neighbors working on the serving Missouri as delegate from the Little district to the Montana and even at times association acting as dtjkjty sheriff at my end ef the I count those yeare as among county the most valuable of my life because nothing breeds such community of feeling as to work with one’s fallowmen at their life tasks and to learn to know their The feelings by actually sharing them man of the west throughout the successive stages of western growth has ways been one of the two or three most typical figures— indeed I am tempted to say the most typical figure— la American life and ne man can really understand our country and appreciate what It really Is and what It promises unless he has the fullest and closest sympathy with the Ideals and aspirations of the west The prime reason for this Is to be found In the fact the westerner Is so good an He Is an American first and American foremost 'for this Is the great lesson friends that all of us need to learn and to keep the lesson that It la unimportant whether a man lives north or south east or west provided he Is genuinely and In good faith an American that he feels every part of the United States as his own and that ha Is honestly desirous to uphold the Interests of all other Americans In whatever sections of the country they may dwell A hundred years ago when men spoke of the west they meant the country tween the Alleghenies and the Mississippi Fifty years ago the white man’s west took In Minnesota Iowa and Kansas and then skipped across to California and Oregon The country of the great plains and the Rockies the country In which you whom I am now addressing lead your lives and do your work has grown up I myself saw within my own lifetime and took part In the cloning years ef the pioneer period and It was my great privilege to work side by side with the piothe the miners neers— the ranchmen the bull the whackers— who actually opened up the country I have seen the herds and flocks of the cattlemen and sheepmen supplant the game I have seen the fortunate movement by which the amall farm has tended gradually to take the place of the I now travel In great unfenced ranch every comfort on railways across lands which when I first rode across them were still the home of the Indian and the buffalo: and I find cities where one ean obtain not merely comfort but luxury in the places where thirty yeare ago there was not a building beyond a log hut or a doble house The men who did this work were engaged In the final stages of conquering the eonflnent and It was their privilege to do one of the great works of all time to do their part In the performance of an epic feat In the history of the progress of mankind West 8tnd for Progress qualities tban were needed on the There is need at present to courage the development of sew ab hues which oan he brought to high perfection only by a kind of training useless In pioneer times but these new qualities can only supplement and neaer supplant tha old homely virtues the need for the speclaj and distinctive pioneer virtues Is as great as ever In other words as our civilization grows older and more comwe need new la that it true plex while forms of trained ability and need to develop men whose lives are devoted wholly to the pursuit of special objects It Is yet also true that we need a greater and not a less development of the fundamental These virtues Include frontier virtues the power of together with the power of Joining with ofhera for mutual help and what Is eepeclally Important the feeling of comradeship of social Any man who hail the good fortune to live among the old frontier conditions must In looking bank realize how vital waa thts feeling of general comradeship and social fellowship There are good men and bad men In the new communities Just as In the old communities and the conditions' on the frontier were such that the qualities of the good and bad alike were rather more etriklngly manifested thsn In older communities but among the men who tried to lead decent fives there was a feeling of genuine democracy which represented an approach to the American ideal which we certainly should do evIn IVe our power to preserve erything did not try to say that men were equal when they were not equal but we did our best to secure somsthtng like an equality of opportunity and an equality of reward for good service and moreover each man expected to be received and on the whole was received wherever he went on the footing that his merits warranted Now so fsr aa possible these qualities and conditions that bring about these qualities should be kept in the great states which are growing out of the old frontier communities We need to strive for the general social betterment of the people ae a whole and yet to encourage individual liberty and set high reward an Individual Initiative up te the point where they become detrimental to the general welfare Wrong Doer and Wrong Systems In continually and earnestly striving for this betterment of social and economic conditions In our complex Industrial civilization we should work In ths old frontier spirit of brotherly comradeship and I do not mean that wo should good will refrain from hating wrong on the contrary I would preach flrey wrath against wrong But I would not preach r save such wrath against the In those eases where his really Is du to evil moral attributes on his part and not to a wrong or false system of which ha is almost as much the victim sb the beneficiary Sometimes a wrong represents the deliberate wickedIn which case r ness of the the remedy Is to punish him but sometimes It represents the effects of a false social system tn which cans the right course Is to alter what Is false tn the Both principles need to be kept system In view as guides to our conduct and It Is necessary sometimes to work In accordance with one and sometimes In accordance wllh the other Before ending I wish to say a word on something which I believe should especially Interest all men who live In the open country and especially all men who during the pnst thirty years have ' lived or have done and worked on ranches their life work in the wilder parts of our land on the great plains er among ths The phase of our national mountains life In which the stockman the mining prospector were the ehlef characters was not only a very Important but also a Often such a very picturesque phase phase passes without any great artist arising to commemorate it The for backwoodsman stance the man of the back eountrv who lived In the eastern forests through which the waters ran eastward to the Atlantia and westward to the Mississippi of any painter passed away without sculptor arising who possessed at ones both the keenness of vision to see what a vllal and picturesque figure the backwoodsman was and the genius adequately to present that figure The artist who saw that picturesqueness of the backwoodsman lacked the genius adequately to commemorate tt while the artists of real ability unfortunately had their eyes turned towards Europe and lacked the robust originality whloh ths novelist Cooper showed— to see where their chances lay to do a great work Rut In our generation for our good fortune a great artist arose who wa capable of seeing and of recording the Infinite plcturesmieness pf the life of the plalm?hnd the Rockies Eulogy of Remington Of course I speak of FrcderV Remington He wae onefof those Americans who by his achievements distinctly deserved well of America He worked with pencil with brush with chisel he was both a Hts pictures and painter and a sculptor Ms few bronzes are equally good When a typically western my own regiment regiment recruited mainly from the men the and the mountains ef great plalne was disbanded at Montauk Po’nt the offl cers and enlisted men joined In giving me Remington’s "Bronze Bronco Buster” a gift which I thought peculiarly appropriate coming from such a body of men In Remington’s pictures all the most vivid and eharacterlstlo features of the western pioneer Ilfs which Is Just closing were set forth and the commemorated forever the men of the plains and ths mountains ss they actually were The cowboy Is his favorite type but the mining prospector the frontier farmer the man who guides or the soldier the Indian— all appear Now I wish very much that these men themselves would In their turn provide a monument for the great artist the sum ot whose activities represent such a feature ef American ach1evithents and above all represents a commemoration of some ef thp most Interesting figures that have ever appeared on the stage of American life A statue should he raised to Remington by some really first class artist Here at Cheyenne In this gathering many hundreds of the men have come who were themselves typical together leaders In and representatives of the very fife which Remington so portrayed that tt will always five I hope that these men will Join together arrange the appointment of a commltteei and start to raise funds for the erection of such a statue The I have used the word progress So west stands for growth tor progress must the whole American people stand A great democracy must bs progressive or It will soon cease to be either great or democratic No nation no state no party can stand still It must either go forward or go backward and It becomes useless If It goes backward Therefore I greet you men of the west and I stand for progress as all men must stand who are progressive The pioneers and their Immediate successors won victory only by proving that they possessed the great masterful qualities which lie at the foundation of National greatness Thera are certain men of Intellectual cultivation but lacking mental and moral robustness "Frontier Days” is no doubt the most who complain continually that they find American life and especially the life of characteristic American exhibition those American communities emerging It had its inception about II given from the pioneer stage crude and withyears ago when a few Cheyenne citCJenlus Is a fine out genius or beauty thing for a nation but character Is a still izens conceived the idea of presenting finer thing and though beauty Is good a western show strength la an even greater good The men who have made this great republic Some of the features lor the exhiof the west what It Is and especially the bition this year were tho bucking men who have turned It Into a continental and steer roping contest commonwealth have possessed in the bronchos the championship for the of the world the highest degree great virile virtues of and undaunted wild horse race the calf branding constrength courage engy and unwavering resolution Their typical test women’s relay race eheep shear’carters—of whom Abraham Lincoln polD pony races by offwas the ing contest though the moat exceptional most typical— have possessed keen Intelicers of the United States army fancy not merely roping military maneuvers ligence and a character by United strong but lofty a character exalted by States row army Indian war dances tbe fact that great power was accompony races squaw races potato races panied bv a high and fine determination to use this great power for the common stake races bat races buffalo races for the advancement of mankind good and other holdups stage many similar The pioneer days are over save In a few places: nnd the more complex life pf events characteristic of the early west today calls for a greater variety of good which is now rapidly passing t ' |
