Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1910-09-08
ROOSEVELT AT
FRONTIER SHOW
His Address at Cheyenne Is on
Expanding Of the West.
PIONEER DAYS ARE OVER.

Tells How Hs Worked With Ranch
men and the Progress That Ha,
Been Made Since He Rode the
PIains-Makss Plea For Monument
In Honor Of Frederick Remington.
Cheyenne. Wyo.. Aug. 27.-Whcn at
the close Of my hunting trip IN Africa
reached the borders Of civilization
the first invitation accepted was this
70 visit the capital of Wyoming on the
I day when the people of the frontier
!, came together to commemorate their
achievements. was glad it was so,
because have peculiar feeling for
the men and women of what used to
be called the far west" and especial
~ for those of the cattle country.
For a number of years lived on a
ranch on the Little Missouri, sharing
work and play, good fortune and bad
fortune, with my ncighbors, 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
deputy sheriff at my end Of the
Il county
4 count those years as among the
1 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
| growth has always been one Of the
two or three most typical figures
indeed, l am tempted to say the most
| typical figure-in American life, and
no man can really understand our
| country and appreciate what 1t 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
man lives north or south, east or west
provided he is genuinely and In good
faith an American, that he feels every
part OF the United States as his own
and that he is honestly DESTROYS to up
hold the interests of all other Ameri-
1 cans in whatever section of the coun-
try they may dwell
Tho Expanding Of the West.
a hundred years ago, when men
spoke OF the west, they meant the
country between the Allcghenies and
4 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 which9 you
whom am now addressing lead your
lives and do your work, has grown up
within my own lifetime
| l myself saw and took part in the
closing years of the pioneer period, and
1t was my great privilege to work side
by side with the pioneers-the ranch
men, the miners, the cowpunchers,
the mule SINNERS, the bullwhackers
who actually opened up the country,
l have seen the herds and fiocks of
the cattlemen and shecpmen supplant
the game. 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 l
first 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
was not a 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 it was their
privilege to do one of the great works
OF all time. to do their part in the per-
Torrance of an epic feat in the his
tory OF the progress of mankind.
l have used the word progress. The
west stands for growth, for progress.
So must the whole American people
stand. a great democracy must be
progressive or it will soon cease to be
either great or democratic. No ma
ton. no state, no.party can stand still.
1t must either SO forward or go back
ward. 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 pro-
gressive.
The pioneers and their immediate
successors won victory only by prov
Ing that they possessed the great, mas
terful qualities which lie at the foun-
datfon OF national greatness. There
are certain well meaning men of intel
lectual cultivation. but lacking mental
and moral robustness. who complain
continually that they find American
Me. and especially the life of those
American communities emerging from
the pioneer stage. crude and without
genius or beauty.
Genius is fine thing for nation.
but character is still finer thing, and.
though beauty is good, strength is an
even greater good The men who have
made this great republic of the west
what It is. aud especially the men who
have turned 1t into n continental COM
moIwealth,, have possessed in the high
est degree fthe great virile virtues Of
strength courage, energy and I'M
daunted and unwavering resolution.
Their typical leaders, Of whom Abra-
nam Nincoln, though the most excep-
tional. was the most typical. have pos