The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-08-27

sents the effects of false social sys.
TEN. 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. aud II
Is necessary sometimes to work in ac-
cordance with one and sometimes in
accordance with the other
Before ending / wish to say a word
on something which. believe. should
especially 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 mounlains.
The phase Of our national life In
which the stockman, the mining pros
pector, the frontier farmer and their
associates were the chief characters
was not only an important. but also q
very picturesque phase.
Often such phase passes without
any great artist arising to commem'
crate II. The old time bacllwOodsman.
for instance the man of the back coun.
try. who lived In the eastern forests,
through which the waters ran east
ward to the Atlantic and westward to
the Mississippi. passed away without
any painter or sculptor arising who
possessed at once both the kcennesS Of
vision to see what II vital and pic
turesque figure the backwoodsmau was
and the genius adequately TO present
that figure.
Monument For Remington.
The artists who saw the picturesque
ness Of the backwoodsmau lacked the
gaming adequately 70 commemorate H.
while the artists of real ability unfor-
tunately had their eyes turned toward
Europe and lacked the robust original
| ity-which the novelist Cooper showed
to see where their chance lay to do a
great work.
hut In our generation for our god
| fortune a great artist arose who was
capable Of seeing and of recording the
infinite picturesqueness of the life of
| the plains and the Rockies. OF course
I speak Of Frederic Remington, He
was one Of those Americans who by
| their achievements distinctly deserved
well of America. He worked with
| pencil with brush. with chlsel. He
was both painter and sculptor,
His pictures aud his few bronzes are
equally good.
| n
western regiment, recruited mainly
from the men of the great plains and
the mountains. was disbanded at Mon
tauk Point. the officers and enlisted
men Joined In giving me Remingtons
bronze broncho buster. a gift which
thought peculiarly appropriate, coming
from such body of men.
In Remington's pictures all the most
| vivid and characteristic features of the
western pioneer life which is just clos
| ing were set forth, and he has com
| memorated forever the men OF the
plains and the mountains as they ac
tually were. The cowboy Is his favor
ite type, but the mining prospector, the
frontier farmer. the man who guides
OK wagon or mule team. the soldier
the Indlan-all appear Now | wish
very much that these men themselves
would in their turn provide monu
ment for the great artist. the sum OF
whose activities represents such n fea
ture of American achievement and
above all. represents the colnmemora
tion of some Of the most interesting
figures that have ever appeared on the
stage OF American life.
A statue should be raised to Rem
ington by some really first class art
list. Here at Cheyenne in this gather
ing many hundreds OF the men
have come together who were them
selves typical leaders in and represent
atives OF the very life which Reming
ton so portrayed that II will always
live. hope that these men will join
together. arrange the appointment OF
a committee and start to raise funds
for the erection of such statue.