The Arvada enterprise., 1910-09-02

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 to the
general welfare.
Wrong Doors and Wrong Systems.
In 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 and
good will. I 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 wrons-doer. save
in those cases where his wrong-doins
really is due to evil moral attributes on
his part and not to a wrong or false sys-
tenn. Of which he Is almost much tho
victim as the beneficiary Sometimes
wrong represents the deliberate wicked
ness Of the wrong-doer, in which case
the remedy is to punish him, but some
times 1t represents the effects of 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 ac-
cordance with one and sometimes In ac-
cordance with the other.
Before ending I wish to say a word on
!, somethins which I believe should espe-
cially interest all men who live in tho
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
land. on the great plains or among the
mountainc. The phase of our national
| life In which the stockman, the mining
| prospector. were tho chief characters. was
| not only. very important but also =
| very picturesque phase. Often such .
| phase passes without any great artist
| arising to commemorate It
! The old-time backwoodsman, for in
stance. the man of the back country
who lived in the eastern forests through
which the waters ran eastward to the
| Atlantic and westward to the Mississippi,
| passed away without any painter or
sculptor arising who possessed at once
| both the keenness of vision to see what
| a vital and picturesque figure the back
woodsman was. and the genius adequate
| ly to present that figure. The artist who
saw that picturesqueness of the back
woodsman lacked-the genius adequately
| to commemorate it,<1~htfe the artists of
real ability unfortunatsls0had their eyes
turned towards Europesnd lacked the ro-
| bust originality which the novelist Coop
| er showed-to see where, their chances lay
! to do a great work But in our genera
uOn, IOr our ROOO fortune n great artist
arose who was capable of seeing and OF
recording the infinite picturesdueness Of
the life of the plains and the Rockies.
Eulosy Of RemInstonA
OF course speak OF Frederic Remins-
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 sculptor. His pictures and
| his few bronzes equally good. When
my own regiment, a typically western
| regiment recruited mainly from the men
of the great plains and the mountains.
| was disbanded at Montauk Point. the off,
| GERS and enlisted men Joined in giving
me Remington's Bronze Bronco Buster"
a gift which I thought peculiarly appro-
pirate coming from such a body OF men.
In Remngton's pictures all the most
| vivid and characteristic features OF the
western pioneer life which ia just closing
were set forth, and the commemorated
forever the men of the 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-all appear. Now
| / wish very muoh-that these men them
| selves would in their turn provide a mon
| ument for the great artist the sum of
| "hoSe d1tlNltits REPRESENT buCn u Itdture
| of American achievements. and, above
all, represents a commernoration Of some
OF the most interesting figures that have
| ever appeared on the stage OF American
| life. A 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. / hope that these
men will join together. arrange the ap-
pointment of a committee, and start to
raise funds for the erection of such a
statue.
Frontier Days" is no doubt the most
characteristic American exhibition
given. 1t had its inception about IA
years ago when few Cheyenne cit.
izens conceived the idea of presenting
western show.
Some of the features tor the exhi.
bition this year were the buckins
bronchos and steer roping contests
for the championship of the world, the
wild horse race. the calf branding con.
test, women's relay race, sheep shear.
ing contest. polo pony races by Off.
GERS Of the United States army, fancy
roping, military maneuvers by United