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Show MEN OF THE CATTLE RANGE WELCOME COL. ROOSEVELT Former President Is Cheyenne's Guest at Frontier Fron-tier Days Cihbration and Delivers Warn Eulogy of the Great West aid Its S'erl'ng irtues. Cheyenne, Wyo.t Aug. 27. The private pri-vate car Republic, bearing Theodore Roosevelt and party, rolled into the station on time s morning, and no sooner had it come to a stop tlyin the sturdy figure or the colonel appeared, appear-ed, for he was anxious to see again the cattle men with whom he once lived As he stepped down to the ground a great shout greeted him the real yell of the range, uttered by an escort of 1,000 cowboys and cowgirls cow-girls detailed to act as the ex-president's bodyguard. That it sounded good in his ears was made evident by the happy smile that spread over his countenance. Mr. Roosevelt's visit and the speecH he delivered later in the clay foriv.ed the culmination of the annual Frontier Days celebration wich had attracted to the city thousands of persons from all parts of the west and a large number num-ber of tourists from more distant sections sec-tions of the country. Colonel Roosevelt's SpeecTi. Out in the open air, under the blue sky, a vast crowd assembled to hear the former president speak, and it heard one of the most important speeches he has made since leaving the White House. His address was as follows: When, at the close of my hunting" trip In Africa, I reached the borders of civilization, civili-zation, the first invitation I accepted was this, to visit the capital of Wyoming on the day when the people of the frontier came together to commemorate their achievements; I was glad it was so, because be-cause I have a peculiar feeling for the men and women of what used to be called the "Far West," and especially for those of the cattle country. For a number of years I lived on a ranch on the Little Missouri, sharing work avid play, good fortune and bad fortune, with my neighbors; neigh-bors; working on the round-up, serving as delegate from the Little Missouri round-up district to the Montana Stock-growers' Stock-growers' association, and even , at times acting as deputy sh print at my end of the county. I count those years as among the most valuable of my life, because nothing breeds such community of feeling as to work with one's fellowmen at their life tasks, and to learn to know thir feelings by actually sharing them. The man of the west, throughout the successive succes-sive stages of western growth, has always al-ways been one of the two or three most typical figures indeed, I am tempted to cay the most typical figure in American life, and no 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 asp'rations of the west. The prime reason for tiis is to be found in the fact the westerner is so good an A men' can. He is an A merican first nnd foremost; for this is the great lesson, friends, that oil of us need to learn and to keep, the lesson that it is unimnortant whether a man lives north or south, east or west, provided he is gemr'nelv and in good faith an Amrnnn. that he fee's every pnrt of the United States as Irs own. and that he is honestly desimus to uphold the interests of all nther Americans Ameri-cans in whatever sections of the country they may dwell. A hundred years aeo, when men spoke of the west they meant the rnn'rv between be-tween the Alle"han5es and the M;ssiss'pnl. f'fty yp) rs ago the white man's west tok In M'-inesota. Towa and Kansas, and then sldpned across to California and Oregon. The country of the erreat p'n'ns and the Rockies, the counrv In which you whom I am now addressing lead your lives and do your work, has gro-n up j within my own 1'ferime. I mvself snw and took part in the closing years of the pioneer period, and It was my ereat privilege priv-ilege to work s'de by s;de w"f"h the p'o-neers p'o-neers the ranchmen. the rrrners. te cow-punchers, the mu'e-skinnprs. the bull who ''Vers who nctuallv onned un the country. I- have seen the herds and flecks nf the cattlemen and sheepmen snnn'ant tlio srame; T have sen the fortunate I nvopint hv Tvhirh the firm his te.rded irrduaPy to tnk? the place of the s-rea 1 un fenced ranh. I now travel in evfrv comfort on rallwnvs across lands -Meb, when T first rode a-ross the-n, n--o n ii"Tio r-. i-e T-'an aid the buffalo: and T nnd cities where one en obtain not merelv comfort, but hiMirv. in the places wpt t hirtv vpr' n to there ns not a bu'l'ng bevnnd a log hut or a dnb'e hoiipp. rrfn v'o d'V ihN work were ensragod in the fHal R'lges of en-nvrns: en-nvrns: the eon!nonr : 11 n1 ' wS tbeir r'v'JP tO d-" CIO nf O-o rrj-r- f wt''R Of nil time, to do t-r ivr 'n tbe n--rforn-npc" nf an enic To-. tn the history of the progress of ma nk ' nd. West Stands for Prcore-s. T ha vp useil ( he vrd proer"-s. The west s'ands f'r lirov'n. for n-e-r-'S. must the wl V- - merman pnl" stand. A great demnfracv must be n-'TCs'vP or I will son r.o to be e'thr r greq t r.r fVnmrrar. nnt'ori. m p'e. no pt'v '-an s'an'1 s'U. Tt mnt either go forw1 rd rir go ba-'tr rd : a nd 't becomes 1-seless If it g-ios br"kT-rd. Th'Tfcre T s-reet you. men of the west, and I stand for process as all men must stand who are progressive. The pioneers and the'r Immediate sue- ; cessors won victory onlv bv pr--ving t' t they possessed the jrrtn t. mi'erful nullities nulli-ties wh i c h He at 'he f o i: n d a t 1 o n of National Na-tional grea t ness. Thptv- arc certa'n wftll-meanine wftll-meanine men of int.'liectual cultivation, hut lacking mental and moral robus'n'-ss. who complain continuallv that thev find American life, and especial I v the life of those American com muni ties emerging fr".-n the p'n neer stage, crude and wit h-j h-j out genius or benir.y. Cenius is a fine j thing for a nation, but character Is a st'M ! finer thing, and though beauty Is good. ' strength is an even greater good. The men who have made this great remiblio of the west what it is. and especial'v the men who have turned it into a continental commonwealth, have possessed in the highest degree the great virile virtues of strength, courage, energy, and undaunted and unwavering resolution. Their tvpfeal leaders of whom Abraham L'ncol a, though ths most exceptional, was the most typical have possessed keen Intelligence, Intel-ligence, and a character not merely strong but lofty, a r ha raster exalted by the fact that great power was accompanied accom-panied by a high and fine determination to use tills great power for the common good, for the advancement of mankind. The pioneer days are over, save In a few places ; and the more comnlex If. o ' todav calls for a greater variety of good qualities than were needed on the fron- tier. Ther is need at present to en- ' s " V courage thf dovclopmnnt of new .-ihilltlcs which can lie lirousht to high oerfection only hy a kind of training useless in pioneer pio-neer times; hut these new dualities can onlv supplement. anl never supplant, the old. homely virtues; the need for the special and distinctive pioneer virtues Is as 1,-reat as ever. In other words, as our civilization stows older nnd more complex, com-plex, while it Is true that wo need new forms of trained ability, and need to develop de-velop 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 nf the fundamental frontier virtues. Those virtues Include the power of self-help, together with the power of Joining with others for mutual help. and. what is especially Important, the feeling of comradeship, of social good-fellowship. good-fellowship. Any man who had tho good fortune to live among the old frontier eot.ditlnns must, In looking back, realize how vital was this feeling of general comradeship and .social fellowship. There are good men nnd bad men. in the new communities just as In tlie old communities, communi-ties, and the conditions on the frontier were such that the qualities of the good and bad alike were rather more strikingly manifested than In older communities, hut among the men who tried to lead hard-working, decent lives, there was a feeling of genuine democracy, which represented rep-resented an approach to the American ideal which we certainly should do ev-ervthing ev-ervthing In our power to preserve. We d'd not try to say that men were equal when they were not equal, but we did our best to secttre something like an equal-'ty of opportunity and an equality of reward ior good service; and moreover, each man expected to be received, and, on the whole, was received wherever he vent, on the footing that his merits warranted. war-ranted. Now so far as possible these ctual'tles 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 as a whole, and yet to encourage individual liberty and set high reward on individual initiative un to the point w-here thev become detrimental to the general welfare. Wrong Doers and Wrong Systems. In continually and earnestly striving for this betterment of roclal and economic conditions in our complex industrial civt-l'zation. civt-l'zation. we should work in the old, frontier fron-tier sp'rU of brotherly comradeship and good will. I do not mean that we should refrain from hating wrong; on the contrary. con-trary. I would preach firey wrath against wrong. But I would not preach such wrath against the wrong-doer, save in .those cases where his wrong-doln really is due to evil moral attributes on : his part and not to a wrong or false svs-tem. svs-tem. of which he Is almost as much the victim as the benefleiarv. Sometimes a wrong represents the deliberate wickedness wicked-ness of the wrnng-deer, in which case the remedy is to pirrsh hfm, but sometimes some-times ft renresents the effects of a false social system, in which case the right course Is to alter what Is false In the system. Both nr'nciples need to be kept in view as guides to our conduct, and it Is necessarv sometimes to work In ac-enrr'nr-e with one and sometimes in accordance ac-cordance with the other. Bfcre end!nr I wish to say a word on scretlv'ng which I believe should especially espe-cially interest all men, who live in the nnen country, and esneciallv all men who during the past thirty years have l'ved and worked on ranches, or have done their life work in the wilder parts of our land, on tho Teat n'ains or among the mnunta''ns. The phase of our national life in which the stnVman. the mining prospector, were the chief characters, was not onlv a very important, but 'ateo a verv picturesque phase. Often such a phase passes w''hout any great artist arising to commemorate it. The oM-t'me backwoodsman, for Instance, In-stance, the man of the back country who lived' in the eastern forests through wlv'oh the waters ran eastward to the Atlantic and westwqrd to the M:sr.'ssippl, pa--d awv without any painter or , sculptor ar'sing who possessed at once both the keenness of vis'on to see what a v'fnl and picturesque figure the backwoodsman back-woodsman was. and the geVus adequate-lv adequate-lv to nrsent that figure. The artist who saw that plcturesoueness of the backwoodsman back-woodsman lac'-ed the genius adequately to oorr-ornorate it. while the artists of real ptvlitv unfrtunatelv had their eyes turned tSwars Europe and lacked the robust ro-bust or'ginalltv wh'ch the novel'st Co-n-er showed to see wher-1 their chances lay to do a great work. But In our generation, genera-tion, for our good fortune a e-reat artist arose who was capable of seeing and of record-'pg the lne.r-He p'cturesoueness of the life of the plains and the Rockies. Eflony of Reminpton. Of course I spepk o Frederic Remington. Reming-ton. He wp.s one of those Americans who bv h!s achievements !i.?i f p--tly deserved well of America. He worked with pencil, w'th brush, with chl-el. he was both a painter and a sculptor. ITIs pictures and his few bron?"s are equally good. When mv own regiment, a tvpically western regiment recruited mainly from the men ' of the great plains and the mountains, was d'sbanded at Mont.auk Point, the officers offi-cers and eplsfed men leiaed In giving me Remington's "Trnnze Bronco Buster," a gift which I thought peculiarly . appropriate appro-priate coming from such a body' of men. In Remington's pictures all the most vivid and cha raci er's'ic features of the' western p:oneer life which Is just closing were set forth, and the commemorated for--vor the men of the plains and the mountains as they actually were. The cowboy in his favorite type, hut the mining min-ing prospector, the frontier farmer, the man who guides ox-wagon or mulotrnm, the soldier, the Ind'an all appear. Now I wish verv much that these men themselves them-selves would In their turn provide a monument mon-ument f. r the great artist the sum of Whose ac'iv'tles represent such a feature of American achievements, and, above all. represents a commemoration of some of the most interesting figures that have ever appeared on the stage of Amer'can life. A statue should he raised to Remington Rem-ington by some really first class artist Here at Cheyenne in this gathering many hundreds of the men have come together who were themselves typical leaders In and representatives of the very life which Remington so portrayed that It will always live. I hope that these, men will join together, arrange the appointment ap-pointment of a committee, and start to raise funds for the erection of such a statue. "Frontier Days" Is no doubt thp most characteristic American exhibition given. It had its inception about 14 years ego when a few Cheyenne cit-i.-.ens conceived the idea of presenting a western show |
