Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-28

attention. head thrown back, heels close to-
gether, like a soldier. When the Indians
rode by, yelling their war cries, the colonel
waved his hat at them and, turning 70 Gov.
ernor Brooks said: Twenty -seven years
ago we shot one Of these Sioux in a brush
on the plains and the Indians shot a cow
puncher. / stood off several of them for
two hours"
The colonel liked the cowboys but he
did not think they looked quite as they
used to when he lived in the west.
Look at the chaps the boys are wearing"
he said, they are a good deal prettier than
we used to see when I was out here"
The cowboys were galloping past the
grandstand, when the crowd on the side
walks grew so dense that 1t broke out of
bounds and scores of persons were pushed
into the street. The cowboys threw their
horses on their launches to avoid a COLI
sion. and as their companions galloped up
7 from behind II looked as II there would be a
dangerous crush OF horses, In front of the
reviewing stand. In a minute 1t was all
over Colonel Roosevelt smiled again and
said "Twenty-six years ago I saw 600
cowboys ride into Glendive, Mont, on dead
run. They pulled up their horses just like
that rnassed in the middle of the street
This is just like old times"
Luncheon at Hotel.
| When the parade was over, Colonel
| Roosevelt ~ Id:
TT was very fine. 1 enjoyed it very
much indeed"
| Quickly taken to the Inter-Ocean hotel,
where a suite Of rooms had been reserved
for him, Colonel Roosevelt took luncheon
with Governor Brooks, Senators Warren,
| Rorah. James Garfield, and the members
of his party.
His time was largely taken UP in talking
to his hosts of this city.
Colonel Roosevelt left the hotel in an au-
| tomobile at 1890 o'clock for the frontier
grounds, a mile and half north of the
| city. A long string of automobiles followed
him az well as an escort of frontiersmen on
i horseback headed by Charles Irwin OF
CHEYENNE and w. l.. Stone Of Cheyenne
chairman Of the frontier committee.
buffalo" Vernon, "Pecos'' Dick Stanley
and Sam Scoville three. of the famous
horsemen who were to compete in the finali
OF the championship riding contest this al
| ternoon rode beside Colonel Roosevelts au
itomobile to the frontier grounds, where
thousands Of spectators were waiting t'
hear the coloners speech and participate
in the afternoons sports.
C0lOnel ROOseVelta Address,
l. Colonel Roosevelt in his speech said;
when, at the close OF my hunting triT
in Africa, j reached the borders OF civil
zation, the first invitation / accepted was
this, to visit the capital of wyoming or
the day when the people Of the frontier
came together to commemorate theii
achievements; 1 was glad 1t was so, be
cause have a peculiar feeling for the mer
4 % hat n he called tnt
Far West and especially for those OF thu
cattle country. For a number of years
lived on a ranch on the Little Missouri
sharing work and play, good fortune anS
bad fortune with my neghbors, worSint
; on the roundup, serving as delegate from
the Little Missouri roundup district TO tn
Montana Stock Growers association, anC
even at times acting as deputy sheriff a
NV and of the county. / count those year
as among the most valuable OF my lie
because nothing breeds such communit!
of feeling as to work with ones own telloV
men at their life tasks, and to learn I
know their feelings by actually sharin
them. The man Of the west. throughout tn
successive stages of western growth ha
always been one of the two or three mos
: typical figures-lndeed, 1 am tempted t
say. the most typical figure-in America
life. and no man can really understan
: our country and appreciate what 1t reall
Is and what 1t promises unless he has tn
. fullest and closest sympathy with the ideal
and aspirations OF the west. The prim
} reason for this is to be found in the fac
' that the westerner is so good an America
ne is an American first and foremost
: Tor this is the great lesson. friends, this
an OF us need 20 learn and to keep, tn
n lesson that it is unlmportant whether
6 man lives north or south, east or ives
= provided he lie genuinely and In good tait
= an American, that he feels every part OF Il
l. Irnited states as his own, and that ne
e honestly DESTROYS to uphold the interes
= OF all other Americans in whatever secuor
q of the country they may dwell.
" Sees Farmer Move wheat.
"a hundred years ago, when men spoil
e 81 the west they meant the country
u tween the Aileghanies and the MISSISSIPPI
FIFTY years ago the white mans west toS
= lin Minnesota. Iowa and Kansas ana th'
% skipped across to California and orego
- The country of the great plains ana u
D. Rockies, the country in which you who
am now addressing lead your lives al
n 40 your work, has grown up within my oV
% lifetime. l myself saw and took part
Id the closing years OF the pioneer period al
ne Il was my great privilege to work side
p, side with the pioneers-the ranchmen' q
Is miners, the cow-punchers, the mule-ski
u ners, the bull-whackers-who actual
ID opened up the country. I have seen
he herds and hocks OF the cattlemen al
o, sheepmen suplant the game; l have Sc
ed the fortunate movement by which the sn
farm has tended gradually TO take
TX place OF the great unfenoed ranch. nj
-, travel in every comfort on railways aero
ar lands which when first rode across the
he we're still the home OF the Indian and
ps buffalo, and ! find cities where one c
g, obtain not merely comfort. but luxury
ss the places where thirty years ago there W
10 not building beyond a log hut or dol
he house. The men who did this work w
rk engaged in the final stages OF eonqueri
he the continent; and It was their pHvile
nd to do one OF the great works OF all time.
leI do their part in the performance OF
epic feat in the history Of the progress
mankind.
lde West stands for PrOGress.
at II have used the word progress I
ith west stands for growth, for progress.