East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-09-19
BY THE SCISSORS
LET 'ER BUCK.

lEI Elk BUN.
Pendletons Roundup becomes
more famous every year. 1t not only
is the most remarkable civic show in
Oregon and in the west. but in the
entire country 1t will not be for
many years that II can maintain its
typical essentials. BY the very force
of progress the life it typifies will
vanish altogether in course of time,
and when that is consummated the
Pendlston celebration will be merely
a Wild West show. 1t is much more
than that now-very much more May
the years of its genuine interest and
attractiveness be many.
The Pendleton Roundup is typical
of the most masterful spirit of the
west. It is virtually the last salute
of the passing cowboy-an "Adlos!" as
It were. waved by the Old West to the
New West.
This Pendleton celebration does the
cowboy the honor he deserves, and
happily, too, it honors him while yet
he fingers in our midst. 1t gives the
rest of the country bowling acquaint-
ance with this cavalier of the range
1t affords the pleasure of seeking him
al work as a skilled expert in his
calling. and it helps to bring to the
more matter-of-fact, business-lik
generation of today the atmosphere in
which was developed the simplicity
the manliness and the strength of
this hero. who links the civilization
Nf ,t.f2l ha ho lNo ~. %
yesterday.
This annual Roundup at Pendle
I ton is worthy to become the most
! famed Of any civic entertainment ever
given in this country. For, veritably,
| it is the most unique. 1t is symbolic
of changing conditions in the west
giving honor to that which is passing
/ and welcome to that which is on its
way. The western man proper should
| not fail at some time or other, to be
/ guest at Pendleton during one of
| these Round-ups; and the eastern
man. If he desires to see that which
| he will always remember with the
keenest pleasure, will cross the con-
tinent to be entertained at Pendleton,
and declare that the time and money
were we'll spent
| Considering, as we must, that mod
ern progress has numbered the days
/ of the cowboy as an American type;
knowing that the iron trail is travers-
! ing the range, and that scientific ag-
riculture and the larger demand for
land sustenance are shortening the
/ fences and cutting up the COW terri
tory into farms; having cognizance of
the flood of immigration into this
western country where millions may
find a prosperous misunderstanding
all these things in mind, we must
realize that it is only question of
years when Emerson Hough's word
picture of the vanishing cowboy will
be virtually the fact. That picture is
worth quoting:
"The cowboy as he rides on jaunty,
erect, strong, virile, with his eye fix
ed perhaps on the ridge miles away,
! from which presently there may shine
a small red light 10 hold his gaze. now
looks about him at the buildings of
the little town. Then toward
the edge, out into the evening he
rides on. The dust of his riding
mingles with the dusk of the night.
We cannot see which is the one or
the other. We can only hear the hoof
beats passing. boldly and seadily still,
but growing fainter, fainter, and more
faint"
There follows the suggestion, ap.
propriate to Pendleton as to no other
place, namely, against the time when
the 'hoof beats" shall altogether cease
what thought is there for monumen-
tai remembrance of the cowboy? As
the typical hero of the west he de-
serves a memorial that shall stand and
be admired as long as the spirit of the
west survives Portland Evening Tel
egram.