Show Trail Blazers of tho West Harpers Weekly hns a new Grievance against President Roosovolt Ho tipnlcc well of tho blazers of trails of the men who conquered tho wilderness Harpers Weekly Insists tluu tho Presi dents i eulogy of the pioneers Is an Inc In-c to tho lawlessness which Is In our blood and Is calculated to diminish our respect for civilization that the Preflleut Is 1 not only Inaccurate but rad ically wrong In asserting that the man of blood and muscle the man of Iron nerve Is the benefactor of the race that tho clvlllrcr no a rule remains at homo that the men who arc working out tho moral and Intellectual problems of tho ago nro In the colleens the schools the studios the newspaper offices of-fices and the pulpits and that most of these halo war On tho othor hand Harpers Weekly says tho barroom the bowlo knife the revolver the savage whoops of tho trail blazers whom the President eulogizes slink off before the approach of the mild inakern of our civilization or die out for the lack of the frontier spirit and It concludes that trullhlnzers as a clans have added little If anything to tho worlds spiritual and Intellectual POSHCB slons and that tho man who tells them that they aro tho greatest ben actors ac-tors of tho country or of humanity la laboring under excitement l under the spell of exuberant fancy The pioneers who conquered the West who gave tone to Western civilization whose spirit still prevails In the West were according to Harpers Weekly more swaggers In barrooms mere roisterers rois-terers along the frontier What a picture Is this to he drawn In tho twentieth century by tho editor of a EOcallcd Journal of civilization What I travesty of history What a distortion of facts that should ue known of all menThe men-The truth Is that the colonizers of tIC West men who punned Into tho wilderness wilder-ness were o the best blood of tho country coun-try They wore not patrons of the barroom bar-room They did not Btrut across tho stage with bowIe knives and revolvers I They won their wny through privation They overcame those who resisted them to be HUT but they were Ifomemnkcrs homelnvcrs educators men of affairs teaching from tho schoolroom tho col logo the pulpit and from public office as bIght lessons In civilization no were over taucht In the Eastern States These were tho men whom President Roosevelt eulogized and he said not a word too much of what they accomplished accom-plished They were blazers of trails They were men of blood and muscle and men of iron nerve and because the high spirit that made them conquerors of tho wilderness has como down In u measure to their descendants the people of tho Vet still do strenuously tho duties du-ties that they meet In any and every field Ocean of clvjllxcd activity Chicago Inter |