The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-09-02


10 Cheyenne, Wyo, Aug 27.-- o
10 The severe criticism OF Roose- Q
10 welt by the New York Evening o
10 Post brought forth a spirited re- Q
10 ply from him today He learned o
10 that he had been criticized for Q
10 the speeches made on the west. Q
10 ern trip, particularly for the re- o
10 marks concerning the corpora o
10 tions. Just the kind of attack o
10 | expected" he said Just as o
10 soon as practical, effort for o
10 decency in New York politics o
10 was made, Il had to come" o
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Cheyenne, Wyo., Aug 27.-Roose-
welt arrived here at 9:12 this morn
ing. An immense crowd met him,
cowpunchers yelled welcome. Sioux
and shoshone braves, gay in war paint,
waited silently for a view of the great
chief
The Colonel was greeted by Gov.
S. B. Brooks and escorted to the in
dustrial club by a squadron Of United
States cavalry. Fifteen hundred cow
boys and cowsirls and two hundred In
dians Joined in the procession.
The parade through the streets, ac.
companied by Roosevelt in an auto
mobile, began today's celebration
Reaching the reviewing stand in the
center of the city. he reviewed the
troops He began speaking at the
Frontier Day celebration at 2:30 this
afternoon He said
When. at the close Of my hunting
trip IN Africa. reached the borders Of
eiviizatlon. the first invitation | ac-
cepted was this, to visit the capital Of
/ Wyoming on the day when the people
of the frontier came together to COM
morate their achievements; l was glad
1t was so, because | have a peculiar
feeling for the men and women Of what
used to be called the Far West, es-
peeially 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 neighbors working
on the roundup serving as delegate
from the Little Missouri roundup dis.
triet to the Montana Stock Growers as
ISOLATION, and even at times acting as
deputy sheriff at my end of the coun-
TRY | count those years as among the
most valuable Of my life, because moth
Ing breed such community Of feeling
as to work with ones fellew men at
their life tasks, and to learn to know
their feelings by actually sharing them
The man OF the West throughout 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
lfigure-in American life, and no man
can really understand our country and
az ,clate what it really Is and what
Ilt ! Aises 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 lesson that It is
unlmportant whether a man lives
North, South East or West. provided
he Is genuinely and in good faith an
American, that he feels every part Of
the United States is his own, and that
he Is honestly desirous to upbuild 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 coun-
try between the Alleghanles 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 Il was my great privilege
TO work side by side with the pioneers
1.-THE ranchmen. the miners. the COW.
punchers. the mule-skinners, the bill
whaokers-who actually opened up
the country. have seen the herds and
flocks OF the oattlemen and sheepmen
supDlant the game; have seen the