The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-28

homely virtues: the need for the special
great as ever. In other words. as our
civilization grows older and more COM
plex. while 1T is true that we need TO
develop men whose lives are devoted
II Is yet also true that we need greater
and not a less development Of the funda-
mental frontier virtues. These virtues
with the power of Joining with others
for mutual help and what is especially
important. the feeling Of comradeship. OF
social good fellowship, Any man who
had the good fortune to live among the
old frontier conditions must In looking
back, realize how vital was this feeling
OF general comradeship and social fell
lowshlp. There were good men and bad
men in the new communities just as In
the old communities and the conditions
on the frontier were such that the quail
ties OF the good and bad alike were
rather more strikingly manifested than
In older communities; but among the
cent lives there was a feeling OF genu-
inc democracy, which represented an ap-
proach to the American ideal which we
certainly should do everything In our
say that men were equal when they were
not equal, but we did our best to secure
something like an equality OF opportu-
nifty and an equality of reward for good
service; and, moreover, each man ex-
pected to be received, and. on the whole.
was received wherever he went on the
footing that his merits warranted.
Need for Frontier Spirit.
Now, so far as possible these qualities
and the conditions that bring about
these qualities should be kept In the
great states which are growing out Of the
old frontier communities, We need 10
strive for the general social betterment
encourage individual liberty and set high
reward on individual initiative up to the
point where they become detrimental to
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earnestly striving for this betterment OF
social and economic conditions in our
complex industrial civilization, we should
work in the old frontier spirit Of rugged
strength and courage, and yet with the
old frontier spirit Of brotherly comrade-
ship and good will. l do not mean that
we should refrain from hating wrong;
wrath against wrong. But l would not
preach such wrath against the wrong
doer. save In those ases where his
attributes on his part and not to n wrong
or false system, OF which he is almost as
much the victim as the beneficiary.
Sometimes q wrong represents the delib-
which case the remedy Is to punish him
but sometimes 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 con-
duct. and IL Is necessary sometimes to
times in accordance with the other.
Tribute to Remington.
Before ending I wish to say n word
on something which I believe should es-
peclally interest all who live In the open
country, and especially all men who dur
worked on ranches. OF have done their
life work in the wilder parts OF our land,
on the great plains or among the noun
tains. The phase Of our national life. In
N lob thn CT t,Nfy
tor, the frontier farmer and their asso-
ciates were the chief characters was not
only very important but also very
picturesque phase. Often such phase
to commemorate it. The old time back
woodsman, for instance. the man of the
back country who lived In the. eastern
forests through which tho waters ran
eastward to the Atlantic and westward
to the Mississippi, passed away without
any painter or sculptor arising who pos
sessed at once both the keenncsS of vi
sion TO see what vital and picturesque
figure the backwoodsman was. and the
genius adequately to present that figure,
The artists who saw the picturesqueness
of the backwoodsman lacked the genius
adequately to commemorate It; while the
artists of real ability unfortunately had
their eyes turned toward Europe and
lacked the robust origlnallty-which the
novelist Cooper showed-to see whore
their chance lay to do n great work. But
In our generation, for our good fortune
' Eledt dItISl dEOSS WHO WIS capable Oh
seeing and OF recording the infinite pic
turesqueness OF the life OF the plains and
the Rockies. or course / speak OF Fred
erick Remington. 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 painter and a
sculptor, His pictures and his few bronzes
are equally good. When my own regi-
ment, typical western regiment, re-
cruited mainly from the mon OF the great
plains and the mountains was disband-
ed at Montauk Point the officers and
enlisted men Joined In giving me Rem
ingtoDs bronze Bronco Buster" n gift
which / thought peculiarly appropriate.
coming from such body OF men, In
kcmlngtons pictures all the most Vivid
and characteristic features of the west
ern pioneer life. which Is Just closing
We're set forth and he has commemorated
forever the men OF the plains and the
mountains as they actually were The
cowboy Is his fayorlte type. but tho min
ing prospector, the frontier farmer the
man who guides OK wagon or mule team.
the soldier, the Indian-all appear. Now
l wish very much that these men them
selves would In turn provide monument
FOR the great artist, the sum OF whose
activities represents such feature OF
American achievement, and above all,
represents the commemoration of some
OF the most interesting figures that have
ever appeared on the stage OF American
life. A statue should be raised to Rem