Show BRET AMONG THE CATTLE MEN attends the great frontier days celebration at cheyenne TALKS OF VIRTUES OF WEST pioneers and their successors possessors of masterful qualities which lie at foundation of nations eions greatness cheyenne wyo aug 27 when colonel roosevelt stopped stepped from the train at sioux falls at 1025 this morn ing he was greeted with the characteristic yell of the range annga given by a thousand cowboys and cowgirls who were ere on hand to act as an escort to the distinguished visitor the shout about so BO famil familiar dar to him in days of old made him laugh aloud in glee and he grasped the hands of every one who could got near enough to him mr Roosevel ts visit and the speech he delivered later in the day formed the culmination culm mation of the annual frontier days celebration which had attracted 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 colonel Roosevel ts speech out in the open air under the blue sky a vast crowd assembled to hear bear the former president speak and it heard one of the most important speeches he has made since leaving the white house ills address was as follows when at tho the close of my hunting trip in africa I 1 reached the tha borders of elvin civilization the first invitation I 1 accepted was this to visit the capital of wyoming on the day when the people of at the frontier front ler carno came together to commemorate comme marato their acl I 1 was glad gl id it was so BO because I 1 have a peculiar feeling for the m men e n and women of what used to be called th ohp e far west and especially for or those of the cattle country for a number of 0 years I 1 lived on a ranch on the little hilis missouri sharing shafig work and play rood good fortune and bad fortune with my neighbors working on the roundup round up tip serving as aa delegate from the little Arisso missouri url roundup round u up district to the montana stock grower E rowers sp as clation atlon cl and even at times acting as aa dt ity sheriff at my end of the county I 1 co count nt those years as among the m most st valuable valuable of my life because nothing not h ing breeds such community of feeling as to work with ones fel el at their life tasks and to learn to know their feelings by actually sharing them the man of the west throughout the give elve stages of western growth has haa always been one of the two or three most typical figures indeed I 1 am tempted to say the most typical figure ln in american life and no man can really understand our country and appreciate what it really IS IR and what it promises unless he has the fullest and closest sympathy with the ideals deals and aspirations of the tha west the prime reason for or thin la Is to be found in the fact the westerner wea terner in so BO good an american ile he Is an american first and foremost for this Is 1 the great lesson leason mends friends that R all I 1 of us ua need to learn and to keep the lesson that it Is unimportant whether a man lives north or south east or w west t provided hn he Is 13 genuinely and in go d faith an Amer american amerlean lenn that lie feel feels every part of the united states as ills his own find and that he Is 18 honestly desirous to uphold the interests interest of all other americans in whatever sections of the country they may dwell A hundred years ago when men spoke spike of the west they me meint int the country between the Alleg bantes and the mississippi fifty years ago the white mans west took I 1 1 k in minnesota town iowa and Kan kansas sits ana then b e n skipped across to tn california and oregon the country of the great pl tinn it and nd the heckles it ellies the country in which vou whom I 1 am now addressing lead your lives and do your has crown up within my own lifetime I 1 myself saw and took part in the clong years of the pioneer period and it wa was mv great to work old side by aldr with the the ranchman ranchmen ranch men ahr th miners i row ca tu punchers the mill skinners rm t tip the bull bill wb whickers ier who abo actu actually aliv opened up the vou country I 1 have seen been tho the herds herda and nicks of the cattlemen and q sheep men n runal nt the gamet have ceen tho the fortunat MO ent bv which fh mail form hns his to take the place of the grent d ranh I 1 now travel iri in earv comfort on nn rall wava arrons across landa which blen I 1 first ahde across them were till tl herno b of tl indan and the buttelo and I 1 tind find elteen where one can chhn not merely mr iv e comfort but luicus lui cur in th the pl pi ic eq e q wh wb rp veirs veira nv tl t r rr won not n heend hov nd a lox log hut or ft a hoie hoi e the men who did this w wort rac nc zd in the final stages irkes of con ram the continent narl it was ther tr to an one n nt f the ar arlt rt borr of all cirrio to in io fin wirt in the th I arri atri inco of r nn an api epic ft in thi the history of the iRR of mankind west stands for progress I 1 have lined the word T th nest bandi mr fr fr fir nr pro rs P minds must HIP b arbir rilan popl e tand stand a k rr P a t d i mut auit b air or it will soon to li bp either great nr demorra tle NA N no IP rin nn wirty party ran can stanl stand still rt it must either go forward or nr go bark bat kw ird and it hp h romea ome useless if it goes backward th ther r for corf T greet you men of th the west went and I 1 stand for r borress ns fr all ms men n mu auit vt stand who ar arr asive the pioneer plo neeri and immediate Immedi site successors c i amori won victory only by proving that they hey PRes sod the mr trat at mit erful qualities which lie ile at th tho foundation of national greatness great neni there are certain well moil ning men of intellectual cultivation hut but icline 1 mental and annor moril tl sq who complain that chev find fand american in if and the HIB alf alfo of these haae amerlean american from froin the ahr pioneer stae crudi crude and without genius or beauty geanium Is a fine thing for a nation but r character hara 0 ter li Is a finer thing and though beauty Is good strength Is an even greater good the men who have made this great republic of the west what it la Is and sPec specially lally the men who have turned it into a n contin continental cital rital commonwealth have possessed in tho th highest degree the great virile virtues of strength courage energy and anil and unAa unwavering vering resolution their til leaders of whom abraham lincoln though the mot most was the most typical have keen intelligence li Il gence and a character chara ctr not merely strong tro ng but lofty a character exalted by th the e fact th that at great power was panted by a high and alno determination to use this great power for the common good for the advancement of mankind the pioneer days are over save in a few places pl a ces anti th the more complex life iffe of today elp for a greater variety of good qualities gitles than were needed on the ti tin tier thoro there is need nt at presort to encourage the development devo lopin nt of new abilities which can he brought to high perfection anly by a kind of training useless in P to times imes but these thes e new ne w qualities tle 9 can only supplement aal ne neer er supplant t tho the old homely virtues the need tor for the special and dl distinctive pioneer la as great as ev ever in at other ter I 1 words as our civilization cl v grows older and more complex ex while it Is in true that we need new fo forma rma of 0 trained ability and need to develop men wh whose 0 s e lives are devoted wholly to the pursuit a 0 f spee special jai objects object is tt it Is yet also true that we need a tr cater an and d not it a less development of the fu fundamental da mental frontier virtues these virtue s include the he power of self help together with th tha power of j joining with others for mutual help and what Is especially pe ciany important the f feeling ieng of comra of social good bood any man who had the rood good fortune to live among tho the old fron frontier tier conditions renditions mu must t in looking back realize how vital was wa tills this of general i and social fellowship therit there are rood 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 tips of the rood good a and ild had alike were rather more a manifested than in older comm attles but among the men who tried to lead hard worling world ni decent lives there was a feeling feell ni of genuine democracy which represented nn an h to the american ideal which we certainly should do ev in our power to preserve WO we did dd not try to say sav t lat men were equal when w hen they were not equal hut but we did our best to secure ii m thang ime ilka an L equality of opportune opp opportunity I 1 ty and an equality of reward for good s arvice arrice and moreover each iann expected to be received and 0 on n the whole was received wherever he rent en t on the footing thit that his merits merit warranted rati tod now so far as possible these qualities and ancl condition that bring about these clu qualities alltis should be kept in the great states which are growing Krowl ni out of the old frontier fron ller communities we need to strive for the general social betterment of the people pe as a whole and yet to encourage individual liberty and set high reward on individual initiative up to the point where chev become detrimental to the general welfare wrong doers and wrong systems rn in continually and earnestly striving for this betterment of social and econom economic lo conditions in our complex industrial CIVI rat on we s should hou a work in n the old frontier pr L ep arit alt of brotherly c comradeship 0 and pond will I 1 do not mean that we should refrain from hating wrong on the con hrnry I 1 would preach firey wrath against wrong nut I 1 would not preach such wrath against the wrongdoer wrong doer save in those thoe cases where his doina doln ri really alev Is due to evil moral attributes on his part and not to a wrong wron or false system of which he la Is almost as much the victim as the beneal larv sometimes a wrong w reD represents resents the deliberate wickedness of the wrong loer doer in which case the remedy is to punish him but me timet almen it represents the effects of a false social serial system in which case the right course Is to alter what Is false in the system doth both need to be kept in view as guides to our conduct and it Is recess necessary arv sometimes to work in accordance cor dance with one and sometimes in ac corda cpr dane tire with the other befera ending I 1 wish to say a word on ething which I 1 believe should especially interest all men who live in the open country and especially all men who during durn the past thirty years yeara have lived find and worked on ranches or have done their life work in the tha wilder parts parta of a f our land on the great plains or among amon the the phase of our national life in which the the mining pro prospector were the chief characters wan wag not only a very important but also alo a vo erv rv picturesque phase often such ft a passes without any great artist arising to commemorate it the old time backwoodsman for instance the man of the back country wh who lived in the eastern forests through the waters ran eastward to th the atlantic and westward to the pa sed bed away avny without any or sculptor arising arll nt who possessed at once both the tha keenness of to see whit what a vital and picturesque flure figure the hick back was and the renus genius adequate ay v to present that flin maure tre tho artist who oo saw that piet of the b bir woodsman lacked the be renjus in cornei commemorate it while the artists of real unfortunately had their evs ev turned towards europe bump find and larked barked th the robust originality which the novelist nov elst cop chip er showed allowed to see fee ra their chanc lay lav to do a great work but in our genora tion for our good fortune a treat arthut aro arcs 5 who was ivas risible of heeln and an 1 of the innel 3 of the life of the the eulogy of remington of course I 1 speak of frederic nemlon ton ile he was one of these am americans who by ills achievements distin distinctly ahr well of america tre ire worked with pencil with brush with chisel achs he was both a n and a sculptor ills pictures and his few feir bronzes are equally when my im own regiment a typically western regiment recruited mainly from the men of fb alo creat pining piling and the mountains wes wan Un dIs handed at Mon Afon an pont nt the oil cers annl nl ellstad mn men m n joined in givina me bronze bronco ni buster viter a raft which I 1 thou nt peculiarly appropriate coming from uch a body ot of mn mm tn in remington a pictures all the ni nit most t and features of the western pioneer life which Is just sinT were pet et arth aal the forever the men of the plains and the olt ns no factually were the cowboy Is his fa alt type but the mill ini inc prospector the frontier r farmer th man who gulles ox waon wagon or mule mulet t nm the fieldler the indri nii fill appear now I 1 wah ve ven rv that thee men them s elves elie would in their stirn provide a monument for the great artist the sum of ahns s represent such a fat f feature at U re of arn ain alcan achlen ens arid above till represents a 0 of f some of trip the most interesting aures that hat have ever appeared on the stage of amerian hf life A statue ghoul 1 be raised to 0 o U im I m im annn nn by bi some rany r ro any illy first class clasa arti artist 11 arf re at 0 venne enre in tha anan bund hundreds reds of the nin ni n have haie nl me pr r who were ivar up tyri ti il if leaders in ard and of thi the arv llop which alch so BO portrayed that it will live I 1 hope that these men will join together ar arrance the al ap of a committed commIt teo and alar t to rals funds for lie he erection of such a statue frontier days Is no doubt the most cha american exhibition given it had its inception about 14 years ago when a few cheyenne citizens conceived the idea of presenting a western show some of the features fea turpa lor the eahl billon this year were the bucking bronchus bron chos and steer roping contests for the championship ot of tho world the wild horse race the calf branding con test relay race sheep shearing contest polo pony races by om cers of the united states army fancy roping military maneuvers by united states army indian war dances cow pony races squaw races potato IPOS IP OS stake races hat races buffalo laces aces stage holdups and many other similar events characteristic of the early west which la Is now rapidly |