The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-09-01
MEN OF THE CATTLE RANGE
WELCOME COL. ROOSEVELT
Former President Is Cheyenne's Guest at From
tier Days Celebration and Delivers
Warm Eulogy of the Great West
and Its Sterling Virtues.

courage the Development of new abilities
which can he brought to high perfection
only by kind Of training useless In pio-
neer times; but these new qualities can
only supplement, and never supplant. the
old, homely virtues; the need for the
special and distinctive pioneer virtues is
as great as ever In other words, as our
civilization grows older and more COM
pick, while it is true that we need new
forms of trained ability, and need to de-
velop men whose lives are devoted wholly |
to the pursuit of special objects, 1t Is yet
also true that we need greater and NOT
a less development Of the fundamental
frontier virtues: These virtues inciu .,,e
the power of self-help, together 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 gooo
fortune to live among the old frontier
conditions must, in looking BACK reaMz
how vital was this feeling OF general
comradeship and social fellowship. There
are good men and bad men, in the new
communities just as In the old communi-
ties, and the conditions on the frontier
were such that the qualities of the good
and bad alike were rather more strikingly
manifested than in older communities
but among the men who tried to lead
Woodworking, decent lives, there was a
feeling Of genuine democracy, which rep
resented an approach to the American
ideal which we certainly should do ev-
erything in our power to preserve. we
did not try to say that men were equal
when they were not equal, but we did
our best to secure something like an
equality Of opportunity and an equality OF
reward for good service; and moreover,
each man expected to be received, ana,
on the whole, was received Wherever ne
went, on the footing that his merits war
ranted
Now so far as possible these qualities
and conditions that bring about these
qualities should be kept in the great
states which are growing out OF the ola
frontier communities. We need to strive
for the general social betterment of the
people as whole, and yet to encourage
individual liberty and set high reward
on individual initiative up to the point
where they become detrimental to the
general welfare.
Wrong Doors and Wrong Systems.
In continually and earnestly striving for
| this betterment of social and economic
| conditions in our complex industrial civil
| lization, we should work in the old from
| tier spirit of brotherly comradeshlp ana
| good will. do not mean that we should
= refrain from hating wrong; on the con-
| trary. I would preach frey wrath
| against wrong But I would not preach
such wrath against the wrong -doer, save
| in those cases where his wrong-doing
really is due to evil moral attributes on
his part and not to wrong or false sys-
tenn, Of which he is almost as much the
victim as the beneficiary. Sometimes a
wrong represents the deliberate wicked
ness of the wrong-doer, in which case
the remedy is to punish him, but some
times it represents the effects OF false
social system, in which case the right
course is to alter what is false In the
| D4%H 1i,11o - kanf
in view as guides to our conduct, and IT
Is necessary sometimes to work IN ac-
cordance with one and sometimes IN &C
cordance with the other.
Before ending I wish to say word on
something which believe should espe-
cially interest all men who live IN the
open country, and especially all men who
during the past thirty years have lived
and worked on ranches. or have done
their life work in the wilder parts of our
land, on the great plains or among the
mountains. The phase of our national
life in which the stockman, the MINING
prospector, were the chief characters. was
not only a very important but also a
very picturesque phase. Often such a
phase passes without any great arts,
arising to commemorate 1T.
The old-time backwoodsman, for in
stance, the man of the back country
who lived in the eastern forests through
which the waters ran eastward to the
Atlantic and westward to the Mississippi
passed away without any painter Of
sculptor arising who possessed at once
both the keenness of vision to see VIVA
J vital and picturesque figure the back
woodsman was, and the genius adequate
" to present that figure The artist wh'
} saw that picturesqueness of the back
| woodsman lacked the genius adequatel!
to commemorate 1t. while the artists o
) real ability unfortunately had their eye
, turned towards Europe and lacked the 70
} bust originality which the novelist Coop
| er showed-to see where their chances la.
l to do great work. But in our genera
) ton, for our good fortune a great artls
! arose who was capable of seeing and o
( record ding the infinite picturesoueness o
: the life of the plains and the Rockies.
Eulogy Of Remington.
: OF course speak OF Frederic Reming
e tom He was one Of those Americans VIII
by his achievements distinctly deserve
we'll Of America. He worked with pencil
with brush. with chsel, he was both
e painter and sculptor. His pictures an
0 his few bronzes are equally good. Whe
. my own regiment, typically wester
9 regiment recruited mainly from the me
t Of the great plains and the mountains
o was disbanded at Montauk Point, the off
o GERS and enlisted men Joined in givin
3 me Remington's "Bronze Bronco Buster.
+! a gift which thought peculiarly apprt
u pirate coming from such body OF mel
o In Remington's pictures all the mo!
vivid and characteristic features Of tt
: western pioneer life which is just closin
It were set forth. and the commemorate
l. forever the men Of the plains and tt
y mountains as they actually We're. TT
j. cowboy is his favorite type. but the mil
!, ing prospector. the frontier farmer. II
5. man who guides ox-wagon or mule-tear
q the soldier. the Indian-all appear. No
II I wish very much that these men then
g selves would in their turn provide mo-
l. ument for the great artist the sum
le whose activities represent such a featu
II Of American achievements, and, abo,
d. all, represents commemoration Of son
| int mt In