The Mena weekly star., 1910-09-01


 qualities should be kept fin the great
 states which are growing out of the old l 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 up to the point
 where they become detrimental 10 the general welfare.
 Wrong Doers and Wrong Systems.
 Tn continually and earnestly striving for this betterment of social and economic conditions in our complex industrial civil lization, we should work in the old from tier spirit of brotherly comradeship ard good will. do not mean that we should refrain from hating wrong; on the con trary. I would preach frey wrath against wrong But I would not preach such wrath against the wrong-doer. save in those cases where his wrong-doing really is due to evil moral attributes on his part and not 10 a wrong or false sys- tenn of which he is almost as much ths victim as the beneficiary Sometimes q wrong represents the deliberate wicked ness of the wrong-daer. fin which case the remedy is to punish him. but some times 1t represents the effects of a false social system. in which case the right course is to alter what is false in the system. Both principles need to be kept In view as guides to our conduct. and 1t is necessary sometimes to work in &C., cordance with one and sometimes in &C., cordance with the other.
 Before ending wish to say a word on something which believe should espe- cially interest all men who live in the open country, and especially all men who during the past thirty years have lived and worked on ranches, or have done their life work in the wilder parts of our ns.A l,.. x<HA A1.. mountains. The phase of our national life In which the stockman. the mining prospector. were the chief characters, was not only a very important but also a very picturesque phase. Often such a phase passes without any great ar.tlt arising to commence 1ia it.
 The cld-tlme bac' casman, for ia- vfance the man of he back counifr 'rha lived in tho eassern forests throu~' vN'ch tho waters ron eastward to tho A"ontic and westward to the Mississippi pessed away withou, any painter CT ser'ptor arising who roasessed at once both the keenress of vie,ou to see what vttal and picturesque equre the back w0cdsman was. and the ee nlus adequate ly te present thnt figure. The artist who saw that picturesduenegr of the back woodsman lacked the genius adequately to commemorate it, while the artists of real ability unfortunately had their eyes turned towards Europe and lacked the TO- bust originality which the novelist Coop CT showed-to sec where their chances lny to do a great work. But in our genera ton, for our good fortune a great artist arose who was capable of seeing and of recording the infinite picturesqueness of tho life of the plains and the Rockies.
 Eulogy of Remington.
 Of course speak of Frederic Reming- ton. He was one of those Americans who by his achievements distinctly deserved well of America. He worked with pencil with brush, with chisel he was both a painter and a sculptor. His pictures and his few bronzes are equally good When my own regiment. Q typically western regiment recruited mainly from the men of the great plains and the mountains was disbanded at Montauk Point the off, cers and enlisted men joined in giving me Remington's Bronze Bronco Buster" gift which I thought peculiarly appro- prtate coming from such body of men In Remington's pictures all the most vivid and characteristic features of the western pioneer life which Is just closing were set forth. and the commemorated forever the men of tho plains and the mountains as they actually were. The cowboy is his favorite type, but the min ing prospector. the frontier farmer, the man who guides ox-wagon or mule-team the soldier, the Indian-aii appear Now I wish very much that these men them- selves would in their turn provide a mon- ument for the great artist the sum of whose activities represent such feature of American achievements, and, above all represents commemoration of some of the most interesting figures that have ever appeared on the stage of American life. statue should be raised to 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 ap- pointment of a committee and start to raise funds for the erection of such statue.
 Frontier Days" is no doubt the most characteristic American exhibition given. It had Its inception about IA years ago when a few Cheyenne cit izens conceived the idea of presenting a western show.
 Some of the features for the exhi. bition this year were the buckine bronchos and steer roping contests for the championship of the world, the wild horse race. the calf branding con. test, womens relay race, sheep shear ing contest, polo pony races by off cers of the United States army, fancy roping, military maneuvers by United States army, Indian war dances, COW pony races, squaw races, potato races, stake races, hat races, buffalo races, stage holdups, and many other similar events characteristic of the early west, which is nov rapidly passing.