The Prescott daily news., 1910-08-27
ROOSEVELT AMONG
 THE CATTLE MEN
Attends the Great Frontier Days
 Celebration al Cheyenne.
TALKS OF VIRTUES OF WEST
Pioneers and Their Successors Pos sessors of Masterful Qualities Which Lie at Foundation of Ma
 tlon's Greatness.

Cheyenne, Wyo., Aug. 27. - When Colonel Roosevelt stepped from the train at Sioux Falls at 25 this morn ing he was greeted with the character istic yell of the range given by 8 thousand cowboys and cowgirls who were on hand to act as an escort to the distinguished visitor. The shout so familiar to him in days of old, made him laugh aloud in glee, and he grasp ed the hands of every one who could get near enough to him.
 Mir Roosevelt's visit and the speech he delivered later in the day formed the elimination of the annual Frontier Days celebration wuich had attracted to the city thousands of persons from all parts of the west and a large nun Der of tourists from more distant sec. tions of the country.
 Colonel RooseveIt's Speech.
 Out in the open air, under the blue sky, a vast crowd assembled to hear the former president speak, and it heard one of the most important speeches he has made since leaving the White House. His address was as follows:
 When, at the close of my hunting trip in Africa, I reached the borders of civili- zation, the first invitation I 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 1t was so, be- cause l have peculiar feeling for the men and women of what used to be called the Far West" and especially for those of the cattle country. For number of years I lived on a ranch on the Little Missouri. sharing work and play, good fortune and bad fortune, with my neigh bors; working on the roundup. serving delegate from the Little Missouri roundup district to the Montana Stock growers association. and even at times acting as deputy sheriff at my end of the county. l count those years as among the most valuable of my Nfe because nothing breeds such community of feeling as to work with ones fellowmen at their life tasks. and to learn to know their feelings by actually sharing thsm The man of the west, throughout the success sive stages of western growth. has al ways been one of the two or three most typical isures-indeed, I am tempted to say the most typical ngure-in American life and no man can really understand our country and appreciate what 1t really is and what 1t 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 the westerner Is 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 unimportant whether a man lives north or south, east or west provided he is genuinely and in good faifh an American, that he feels every part of the United States as his own. and that he is honestly desirous to uphold the interests of all other Ameri- cans in whatever sections of the country they may dwell
 hundred years a~0 when men spoke of the west they meant the country be- tween the Aleghanics 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. I myself saw and took part in the closing years of the pioneer period, and it was my great priv ilege to work side by side with the pio- neers-the ranchmen the miners the cow-punchers, the mule-skinners, the bull whackers-who actually opened up the country I have seen the herds and iocks of the cattlemen and sheepmen supplant the game; I have seen the fortunate movement by which the small farm has tended gradually to take the place of the great unfenced ranch. I now travel in every comfort on railways across lands which, when first rode across them, were still the home of the Indian and the buffalo and I find cities where one can obtain not merely oomforA Sut luxury. in the places where thirty years go there was not building beyond a log hut or a dobie house The men vho did this work were engaged in the final stages of con quering the continent and it was their privilege to do one of the great works of all time, to do their part in the perform 'ance of an epic feat in ths history of the progress of mankind.
 West Stands for Progress.
 I have used the word progress. The west stands for growth. for progress. Sc must the whole American people stand. A great democracy must be progressive or 1t will soon cease to be either great or democratic. No nation, no state. no party. can stand still. It must either 70 forward or go backward; and 1t becomes useless If 1t goes baakw1gl. Therefore I greet you. men of the west, and stand for progress As all men must stand who arc progressive.
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