The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-08-28

Thomas Each was forced to ride two
horses, and Scoville was declared win
ner after two sensational rides on
Denver and Aeroplane. Mckinley was
second, while Thomas was given a
heavy fall by Miller Kid, his last horse.
Governor Brooks gave his dinner
over. The guests included Colonel
Roosevelt Ex-Governor W. A. Rich
ards, United States Judge John A. Ri
ner, James r. Garfield, George AIDE and
Senators Warren and Borah. The
speech OF Colonel Roosevelt was as
follows:
ROOseVelt's Address.
When, at the close OF my hunting
trip in Africa l reached the borders OF
civilization, the first invitation 1 ac-
cepted was this, to visit the capital of
Wyoming on the day when the people
OF the frontier came together 10 COM
memorate their achievements; ! was
glad 1t was so. because have pecu.
liar feeling for the men and women OF
what used 10 be called the Far West
and especially for those of the. cattle
country. For a number of years lived
on ranch on the Little Missouri. shar-
ing work and play, good fortune and
bad fortune, with my neigh bors; work
ing on the roundup, serving as dele
gate from the Little Missouri roundup
district to the Montana Stockgrowers
association, 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 breeds such community of feeling as
10 work with ones fellowmen at their
life tasks, and TO learn TO know their
feelings by actually sharing them The
man or the west. throughout the sue
cessiVe stages of western growth, has
always been one Of the two or three
most typical figures-indeed, am
tempted TO say, the most typical figure
in American life, and no man can
really understand our country and ap-
preciate what il 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 les
son, friends, that all of US need to
learn and to keep, the lesson that it
is unimpOrtRnt whether a man lives
north or SOUTH east or west, provided
ne Is genuinely and In good faith an
American, that he reels every part or
the United States as his own. and that
he is honestly DESTROYS 10 uphold the
interests of all other Americans in
whatever sections OF the country they
may dwell.
Took Part IN Final Scenes.
"A hundred years ago. when men
spoke OF the west they meant the coun-
try between the Alleghanies 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 coun-
try 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 pio-
neer period, and il was my great privi-
lege to work side by side with the
ptOneers-the ranchmen, the miners, the
al ali
ull-whackers-whO actually opened up
the country I have seen the herds
and flOcks of the cattlemen and sheep
men supplant the game; 1 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
home or the Indian and the buffalo; 1
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 a log hut or
'dObe house The men who did this
work were engaged in the final stages
of cOnquerlng the continent; and il was
their privilege to do one OF the great (
works OF al time. to do their part in
the performance of an epic feat In the
history of the progress OF mankind.
West Stands For Progress.
Il 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 IL will soon cease TO be
either great or democratic. No nation,
no state, no party can stand still. II
must either go forward or go back
ward and it becomes useless If il goes
backward. Therefore ] greet you, men
OF the west and l stand for progress
as all men must stand who are pro-
gressive.
The pioneers and their Immediate
successors won victory only by proving
that they possessed the great, masterful
qualities which lie at the foundation Of
national greatness. There are GER
tain well-mea ming men of intel
leetual cultivation, but lacking men
tai and moral robustness, who
complain continually that they find
American life, and especially the life
of those American communities emerg-
ing from the pioneer stage, crude ana
without genius or beauty. Genius Is a
fine thing for a nation, but character
is a 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 IL Is,
and especially the men who have
turned it into a continental common