The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-09-01
GN OF THE CATTLE RANGE
WELCOME COL. ROOSEVELT
nuper President Is Cheyenne's Guest At From
tier Days Celebration and Delivers
Warm Eulogy of the Great West
AID Its Sterling Virtues.

which oo ueVe'opment OF new abIlltiea
ori,, ean ne brought to high perfectloo
neer tir Ni,u OF training useless in Mo-
opl,, s,,,.S' out THESE new qualities can
o,S supplement. and never snnnlan, .an
oid' homely virtues, tho "a 80 .,ie
speciai and distinctive pioneer -yir,,,o. '',e
40 great as ever. In other yords 90 49,.
y."~a'ioh grows older and mora COW.
-, WINE II Is true that we need rerv
Iortns or trained ability. and need 70 Sa
se'op men whose lives are devoted who'll,
10 .he pursuit of special objects. IL is vol
fue 'hat we need greater and nor
S .as development Of the fundamental
the power OF self-help. together ,ri,h ~
power OF Joining with others for rn,,,,a,
neip, and what is especially imnortant
sne leellng OF comradeship. OF social good
eo"ship' ANY man who had the good
iortuhe TO live among the old frontiar
sonuitlons must, in looking back, realize
now vital was this feeling OF general
eonhraueship and social fellowship. There
ore sooo men and bad men, in the new
n'iuhities Just as In the old communi-
IT'S ana the conditions on the frontier
were such that the qualities of the good
and bad alike were rather more stril,ingiv
manifested than in older communities
out among the men who tried to lead
naru-Working decent lives, there was n
| ieehns OF genuine democracy, which rep-
| resented an approach to the American
ideai which we certainly should do ev-
| erythlng In our power TO preserve. We
| uid not try to say that men were equal
| "heh 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, and.
| on the whole, was received wherever he
| 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 old
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 comradeship and
| good will. I do not mean that we should
~, refrain from hating wrong; on the con-
| trary. / would preach frey wrath
against wrong. But I would not preach
such wrath against the wrong-doer save
In those cases where his wrongdoing
really is due to evil moral attributes on
| his part and not to a wrong or false sys-
TEN, of which he is almost as much the
victim as the beneficiary. Sometimes
wrong represents the deliberate wicked
ness of the wrong-doer, in which case
the remedy is TO punish him. but some
times II 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 conduct, and II
is necessary sometimes to work In ac-
cordance with one and sometimes in ac-
cordance with the other.
Before ending I wish to say word on
something which I 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 very important but also
very picturesque phase. Often such
phase passes without any great artist
arising to commemorate IT,
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 10 the
Atlantic and westward to the Mississippi,
passed away without any painter or
sculptor arising who possessed at once
both the keenness of vision to see wha'
a vital and picturesque figure the back
woodsman was, and the genius adequate
" to present that figure. The artist VINO
saw that picturesaueness OF the pecS-
woodsman lacked the genius adequately
TO commemorate It, while the artists Oh
roal ability unfortunately had their eyes
turned towards Europe and lacked the TO-
hust originality which the novelist Coop
or showed-to see where their chances iaV
70 do n great work. But In our genera
zion for our good fortune great artst
,ro.a who was CAPABLE Of seeing ana OF
recording the Infinite picturesnueness Vi
the life of the plains and the Rockies
Euloey Of Remington.
n, .ourse sneak OF Frederic Reming-
,on lie was one OF those Americans who
~, bIs achievements distinctly deserved
n,ou NJ America. He worked with pencil
Win brush. with chi-el, he was both a
nainter and a sculptor. His pictures and
bis few bronzes are equally good "heh
INV own regiment. typicaly western
regiment recruited mainly from the men
-, ,to great plains and the mountains
90, d,sharded AT Montauk Point, the oth-
cers and enlisted men joined IN sNihS
me Remington's "Bronse Bronco busteI .
n ,ift which ] thought peculiarly appro-
nriate coming from such body OF men.
In Remlngton's pictures all the mus .
,J,,,d and characteristic features OF the
r'ostarn pioneer life which Is just cios!Is
- sot forth. and the commemorate
f.a,,ar the men Of the plains ana .ne
,,tains ms they actually were nc
nnu,hov ia his favorite type. but the MN,
~ rrosnector. the frontier farmer lne
80, uho guides ox-wagon or nuie- 60 e@.
,I'a colder the Indiau-all appear w"
~ ,,sh very much that these men 'he'l''
VIE rronid IN their turn provide mon,
ument for the great arus' tne .aa,,,re
whose activities represent sucn ahove
", American achievements anu 49,
III rsnresents a commentator Oh 1u ,,e
&C. ,be most interesting figures that Ia, = :
o,,or appeared on the stage OF AlIie -
,,,a a statue should be raised 10 IT,
i ~ nv some really first class artIs,,
tJora NJ CHEYENNE in TINS ga'hei ,rs
-, hundreds OF the men nave oV 'a'
hpnhs Who were themselves typ'ca
t ,oa5ers in and representatives OF me YER a
,ite which Remington so poruayeu 80,
,,,II always live hope una.
u 9TH toin together, arrange the "p
Hlth VIZ =. N committee, ana slhIN -