Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-08-27
WEST STANDS
FOR PROGRESS
No Nation, No State Can
Stand Still Says Express
ident Roosevelt
GREAT ADDRESS At CHEYENNE
Words of Praise for Frederick
Remington, the American
Painter.

Cheyenne, Wy, Aug. 27.-Theodore
Roosevelt delivered the following ad-
dress here today:
when, at the close of my hunting
trip in Africa, | reached the borders
OF civilization. the first invitation I
accepted was this, 10 visit the capital
of Wyoming on the day when the pe0-
pie OF the frontier came together TO
commemorate their achievements:
was glad it was so. because ! have a
peculiar feeling for the men and wom-
Ell of what used to be called the Far
West and especially for those of the
cattle country. For number of
years | lived on a ranch on the Little
Missouri, sharing work and play, good
! fortune and bad fortune, with my
neighbors; working on the roundup,
| serving as delegate from the Little
Missouri roundup district to the Mon
tana StOckgrowers' Association, and
even at times acting as deputy sher-
/ if at my end of the country. | count
those years as among the most valu-
able of my life, because nothing
| breeds such community of feeling as
to work with ones fellowmen at their
life tasks, and to learn to know their
feelings by actually sharing them. The
man of the west, throughout the sue
cessive stages of western growth, has
always been one of the two or three
most typical figures-indeed, am
tempted to say, the most typical fig
ure-in American life, and no man can
really understand our country and ap-
preciate what it really is and what it
promises unless he has the fullest
and closest sympathy with the ideals
and aspirations of the west. The
prime reason for this is to be found
in the fact that the westerner is so
good an American. He is an Ameri-
can first and foremost; for this is the
great lesson, friends, that all of US
need to learn and to keep, the lesson
that it is unimportant whether a man
lives north or south, east or west,
provided he is genuinely and in good
faith an American. that he feels ev-
cry part of the United States, as his
own, and that he is honestly desir.
Gus to uphold the interests of all
other Americans in whatever sections
OF the country they may dwell.
"a hundred years ago, when men
spoke of the west they meant the
country between the Alleghenies and
: the Mississippi Fifty years ago the
: white mans west took in Minnesota,
. Iowa, and Kansas, and then skipped
: across to California and Oregon. The
country of the great plains and the
Rockies, the country in which you
whom | am now addressing lead your
/. lives and do your work, has grown
up within my own lifetime / myself
saw and took part in the closing years
, ! of the pioneer period, and it was my
r great privilege to work side by side
with the pioneers-the ranchmen,
the miners, the COW punchers, the
mule-skinners, the bull-whackers-
, who actually opened up the country.
| have seen the herds and fiocks of
the cattlemen and sheepmen supplant
movement by which the small farm
has tended gradually to take the
place of the great unfenced ranch.
now travel in every comfort on rail-
> ways across lands which when | first
4 rode across them, were still the home
: of the Indian and the buffalo; and |
$ find cities where one can obtain not
!, merely comfort, but luxury, in the
/. places where thirty years ago there
d was not building beyond a log hut
i or dobie house. The men who did
e this work were engaged in the final
L stages of conquering the continent;
k and it was their privilege to do one
e of the great works of all time, to do
( their part in the performance of an
lepic feat in the history of the prog
:. ress of mankind.
), Il have used the word progress. The
v west stands for growth, for progress.
8 So must the whole American people
! stand. A great democracy must be
a progressive Or it will soon cease to
n be either great or democratic. No
nation, no state, no party, can stand
still. 1t must either go forward or
9 go backward; and it becomes useless
if it goes backward. Therefore
! greet you, men of the west, and /
= stand for progress as all men must
:. stand who are progressive.
: "The pioneers and their immediate
: successors won victory only by prov
. ing that they possessed the great,
masterful qualities which lie at the
: foundation of national greatness.
= There are certain well-meaning men
u Of intellectual cultivation, but lack
l. ing mental and moral robustness,
n who complain continually that they