Show VICE PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT PRAISES WESTERN PIONEERS of at wildo wild o 1 and I 10 t the h girand 9 flohl billal or at tb the too ta lury 6 1 I rostam the alic pilo cipal feature of 0 the colorado quarto centennial iele celebration bration at t colorado Springs frida 1 was an address by theodore roosevelt vice president of the united statta stalia on the tha growth of the west during the hie I 1 net quarter of a century oo on ilia hia arrival colonel Po cosevelt lioB cyell sevelt was welcomed by orman and aff staff ART Vet velet ellInS uns children and many others at 10 0 clock bolock lie he wan escorted to not tit ill park where he spoke in ilia open air to an assembly nn of 10 people who gave him an en thusia reception bod and frequently interrupted his remarks applause lie spoke in part an a follows ghis anniversary which walks the completion by colorado of lier her first quarter century of flood 16 n of lo 10 n terest terent not 01 boly IY to tier not only t to her the state of the rucky lioun tain region but ul to our whole country with tile elc allon of the admission to ota teho I 1 of california no event emphasized in such buch dramatic fashion the full meaning of the gowty of our country as an did tile of 0 colorado it Is t a law of our development that the greatest and most important truths once we I 1 eve ava become thoroughly famil lur balth then them often because of that very familiarity grow dim in our minds I 1 lie I 1 e nest eat ward nf our athla continent lien lias ben been ko he rapid still and so ao great has been their success to in tensing taming the rugged wilderness turning the gray desert into Int green fertility and fill ingrie waste and aly 1 ddlly places nith it thae thu thronging crowlie life of our industrial civilization tl 11 at wo we have begun to accept it nil all na an purl part of the order of nature I 1 ou iu the alio men of colorado avd and above the older among those whom I 1 BIU am now addi addressing essing have been engaged in doing the great work of our people save only the pi eser reservation of the union itself no ot oil er task tank lima hag been re BO important as the conquest and settlement tl ement of tile west went 1 ills and settlement lima hag been the feat of our race for tile the century that has haft just closed it islands supreme among all such anch fis I 1 oil and your fathers mho alto built up tip the west went did more even then than you thought though t for you shaped thereby the destiny of tile the whole dhole republic and ass ba necessary corollary profoundly influenced the course of leists throughout the hie corll borill more and more ns as file he years go by tills this to ie publio public will flud its gui guidance danLe in tile the thou glit and action of the west went because the condl conditions lions of development la in tile the west have steadily atea dily bende tende I 1 to accenti ate the peculiarly aly american cis character fracter astles of its lt |