The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-08-27
CHEYENNE REMINDS ROOSEVELT OF
THE TIME WHEN HE shot AN INDIAN

great lesson. friends. that all of us
need TO learn and to keep, the lesson
that IL is unimportant whether a man
livos North or South, East or West,
provided he Is genuinely and In good
faith On American. that he feels every
part Of the United States as his own.
and that he Ia honestly desirous to
uphold the interests OF all other Am
orleans In whatever sections OF tho
country they may dwell,
He Knows the West
"A hundred years ago. when men
spoke of the West, thoy meant the
country between the AllcGhenies 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 l am now addressing lead your
lives and do your work. has grown
up within my own lifetime. | my
self saw and took part In the closing
years Of the pioneer period, and It
was my great privilege to work side
by Side with ploneers-the ranch
men, the miners, the cow.punChers,
the mulc-skinners. the bull-whackers
who actually opened up the coun-
try. | have seen the herds and flocks
OF the cattlemen and sheepmen sup
plant the game, | have seen the for
tunate movement by which the small
farm has tended gradually TO tnkc the
place OF the great unfenced ranch. 7
now travel in every comfort on rail-
ways across lands which, when / first
rode across them, were still the home
of the Indian and the buffalo, and |
find cities where one can obtain not
only comfort. but luxury. in places
where thirty years ago there was not
a building beyond log hut or an adobe
house. The men who did this work
were engaged In the final stages OF
conQuering the continent. and II was
their privilege 10 do one OF the great
est works of all time to do their part.
In the performance of an epic feat In
the history Of the progress OF man
kind
Teddy for Progress.
81 have used the word progress
The west stands for growth. FOR prog
ress. So must the whole American
people A great democracy must be
progressive or it will soon cease
TO be either great or democratic No
nation. no state, no party. can stand
still IL must either go forward or 20
backward. and II becomes useless IL
II goes backward Therefore. ! greet
you. men OF the west, and ] stand for
progress, as all men must stand who
are progressive.
The pioneers and their immediate
successors won victory only by PROV
ing that they possessed the great mas
tcrful qualities which lie at the foun-
dation of national greatness. There
are certain well meaning men o: In
tellectual cultivation, but lacking
mental and moral robustness, who
complain that they find American life.
and especially the life of those Amer
lean communities emerging from the
pioneer stnge. crude and without
genius or beauty. Genius is a fine
thing for a nation. but character is Il
still finer thing. and though Hearty is
good. strength is an ever greater
good.
Praises the Pioneers.
"The men who have made this great
republic OF the west what it Is, and
especially the men who have TUNED
it into n continental commonwealth
have possessed In the highest degree
the great virile virtues Of strength,
courage, energy and undaunteG and
unwavering resolution. 1hej7 typical
leaders-of whom Abraham Lincoln.
though the most exceptional. was the
most typical-haye possessed keen in
/ telligence and a character not merely
strong, but lofty, a character exalted
] by the fact that great power WAS ac-
! companied by a high and finc deter
mination TO use this great power for
the common good-for the advance
ment Of mankind.
THE pioneer days arc over. save
! in a few places, and the moro com-
| plex life to today calls for greater
/ variety of good qualities than were
needed on the frontier. There Is need
at present to encourage the develop
ment of new abilities, which can be
/ brought to high perfection only by IL
. training useless In pioneer times. but
! these new qualities can only supple
ment and never supplant, the old,
homely virtues: the need for the spe-
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as great as ever. In other words, as
our civilization grows older and more
complex. while IT Is truo that We need
to develop men whose lives are de-
voted wholly to the pursuit of special
objects. it IS yet also true that we
need a greater and not less develop
ment OF the fundamental frontier vir.
tues. These cirtues include 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 good
fortune TO live among the old frontiec
conditions must. in looking back. re-
alize how vital was this feeling OF
general comradeship and social fel
lowship. There were good men and
bad men In he new communities, Just
! as in the old communities. and the
| conditions on the frontier were such
that the qualities OF tho sood and bad
alike were rather more strikingly
manifested than in older communf
ties; but among the men who tried
TO lead Woodworking, decent lives.
there was a feeling Of genuine democ.
racy which represented an approach
to the American Ideal. which We
should certainly do everything in our
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