Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-09-01
ROOSEVELT AT
frontier SHOW
His Address at Cheyenne Is on
Expanding Of the West.
PIONEER DAYS ARE over.

men and the Progress That Has
Been Made Since He Rode tho
Plains-Makes Plea For Monument
In Honor of Frederick Remington.
Cheyenne. Wyo.. Aug. 27.-When at
the close of my hunting "Trip in Africa
reached the borders of civilization
the first invitation accepted was this
to visit the capital of Wyoming on the
day when the people of the frontier
came together to commemorate their
achievements was glad it was so,
because | have a peculiar feeling for
the men and women of what used to
be called the far west" and especial
ly for those of the cattle country
For a number of years lived on n
ranch on the Little Missouri, sharing
work and play. good fortune and bad
fortune. with my neigllbors. working
OH the roundup. serving as delegate
from the Little Missouri roundup dis
trict to the Montana Stock Growers
association and even at times acting as
a deputy sheriff at my end of the
county.
count those years as among the
most valuable of my life. because moth
ing breeds such community of feeling
as to work with ones fellow men at
their life tasks and to learn to know
their feelings by actually sharing
them. The man of the west through
out the successive stages of western
growth has always been one Of the
two or three most typical figures
indeed. am tempted to say 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 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
American first and foremost. For this
is the great lesson. friends. that all of
us need to learn and to keep. the les
son 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 every
and that he Is honestly desirous to up
hold the interests of all other Ameri-
cans in whatever section Of the coun-
try they may dwell.
Tho Expanding Of tho West.
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 l 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 great privilege to work side
by side with the pioneers-the ranch !
men. the miners. the cowpunchers. /.
the mule skinners. the bullwhackers !
who actually opened up the country. |
have seen the herds and flocks OF
the cattlemen and sheepmen supplant
the game. l have seen the fortunate
movement by which the small farm
has tended gradually to take the place /
of the great unfenced ranch.
now travel in every comfort on |,
railways across lands which when 1
first rode across them were still the !,
home Of the Indian and the buffalo. !
and I find cities where one can obtain .
not merely comfort. but luxury. in the
places where thirty years ago there ,
was not building beyond log hut
or 'dobe house.
The men who did this work were en-
gagged in the final stages of conquer !,
ing the continent. and 1t was their
privilege to do one of the great works
of all time. to do their part in the per- i
formance of an epic feat in the his
tory of the progress of mankind.
have used the word progress. The |,
west stands for growth. for progress. !
So must the whole American people !
stand. A great democracy must be !
or 1t will soon cease to be .
either great or democratic. No ma j,
ton. no state, no party. can stand still. |
1t must either go forward or 60 back '
ward. and 1t becomes useless If 1t goes
Therefore greet you, men
Of the west. and l stand for progress.
as all men must stand who are pro-
gressive.
The pioneers and their immediate
successors won victory only by prov
ing that they possessed the great, mas
terful 0ualitioA which lie at tho fo1n-