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Much of Mr. Blank's Earning
Capacity.
a , Mrs. Herman Oelrichs , the best-
Ire&sed woman In Newport , criticized
ery pertinently , at a recent dinner ,
< lie new dinner gowns of Paquin and
allot.
t These clinging and filmy gowns are
jhiefly remarkable for the V-shaped
' ) ack that they possess. The V-it is
incredible , but it is true-opens all the
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Divining Rod 200 Years Old.
Winslow W. Fifield of Medford ,
$ Iass. , owns a metallic divining rod
' { brought > from England more than two
hundred : years ago by one of his an-
pestors. The rod , says Mr. Fifield , has
i > een used successfully all over New i
England and in the western mining
1 fllstricts. It Is attached to whalebone
Candles } 12 Inches long and weighs two
.ounces. The handles have inscriptions
.on them which are almost obliterated
' Jby age.
. The person who brought the rod to
, - America : was Isaac Greenleaf , who set-
-tled . in Massachusetts. The rod became
: ( famous as a finder of water. After
: marking : the place of many springs the
drod was used in California , Colorado
, and North Carolina for locating by men
tin quest of gold mines and other met-
als. One parson who used it with par-
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way down to the waist line. At a gala
performance in Paris given by the
Metropolitan Opera company of New
York-the most successful perform-
ance Paris ever saw , and one whereat
$40,000 was gained for the PliJVIose
victims - many of the beautiful Ameri-
cans In the $40 orchestra seats wore
these daring gowns , and now at New-
port they are often to be seen.
Mrs. Oelrichs stared at one with as
tounded eyes at a dinner , and her
neighbor said :
"Isn't that new gown of Mrs. Blank's
a dream ? Old Mr. Blank is so de-
tlcular success was a blind man , In
whose hands the rod is said to have
done marvels. ,
A Strong Preacher.
' daugh-
The minister's eight-year-old
ter was returning with her parents '
from church where the district super-
intendent had that morning occupied
the pulpit.
"Oh , father " asked the little girl ,
her face alive with enthusiasm , "don't , .
you think Brother C. Is a very strong
preacher ? I do. "
Gratified by this evidence of un
usual intelligence on the part of his
offspring , the minister eagerly in-
quired Into her reasons for her state-
ment.
"Oh , " replied the little miss , artless-
ly , "didn't you see how the dust rose I
when he stamped his feet ? " - Judge. i
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makes goes on his wife's back. "
Mrs. Oelrichs , her eye fixed on the
gowr's terrible V , said with a smile , :
"Well , he must be making very ' lit
tle , then. "
Practical Matching. 6
What the little girl with the 15 cents
In pennies wanted was some red rib-
bon of a particular shade for her moth-
er. She knew the shade , but she
couldn't explain it and all she could
say was , it wasn't that , no , nor that ;
It was deeper than that and not so
face"i
The Counterfeit Southerner.
counter-
Of course , there are many
feits. A most amusing imitation is
one that often passes for the typical
southerner in New York. This satchel-
mouthed braggart infests tho cafes
and demands attention by his abusing
the waiter for offending his delicate
sense of honor. "I hate a nigger , suh , "
he loudly proclaims , which Is a senti-
ment that one never hears from those
to the manner born. He haunts the
theaters and parados ) the streets , since
it Is poor fun to practise his gentility
In private. -
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He wears a wide black hat , mounts
the table and yells whenever the band
plays a southern melody. Such a pre-
tentious caricature would be harmless
enough , but for the ridicule he brings
upon the south. Unfortunately , popu-
lar authors seem to accept him at face
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deep as tnat , ana so on.
The mission was looking hopeless
when suddenly she darted from the
shop and seized a passing gentleman
by the "hand.
"Will you please come Into this shop
with me ? " she asked innocently.
"Certainly , my chickabiddy , " he re-
plied , "if I can be of any use. What
Is It ? "
The little girl replied not , but led
the wondering stranger to the counter.
"There , miss ! " she said , triumphant-
ly. "Mother wants some ribbon the
color of this gentleman's nose. "
value and exploit him in novels or
plays where a "southerner" is a nec-
essary part of the stage machinery.-
Everybody's Magazine.
. Wasted Sarcasm.
The Philadelphia milk dealers who
recently raised the price of their
product to nine cents a quart and then
lowered It again to eight appear to
have been the subjects of a great deal
of unjust censure. They announced
at the time of the raise that milk
could not be sold at eight cents with-
out loss. Finding that the consumers
would not pay the new price , however ,
they are continuing to sell at the old ,
thereby qualifying as genuine philan
thropists. Every purchaser of milk
at eight cents a quart will doubtless
hereafter feel that he is an object of
charity. .
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HoodwinKing : .
, . Clergymen
When a small clique of men put up
ja scheme to harness the clergy of
jAmerlca and Induce the ministers to < ,
fin turn "hitch up" the members of th
tehurches ; , we should all take notice.
They couldn't harness the preacher
fin a bad cause except by deceiving
tthem.
Ministers : of the gospel are essei -
-tially and fundamentally honest but ,
like all men who work for the publi
jgood , they are at times mislead by !
"false statements.
Trust them when they have exac
" truth to speak from.
Now for the story which should in-
-terest : every one for we are all either
-receivers of wages or we pay to wage
-earners and the freedom of each it -
# dividual is at Issue.
In various papers the following
statement has been printed. Read It i
.carefully at least twice.
"Interest in Labor Sunday.
"Labor Sunday-the Sunday precec -
ing Labor day-will be observed ger -
-erally this year and In future years
-throughout the United States. This
because of the American Federation :
of Labor declaration for the obsen -
ance : of that day. The numerous lei -
received at America :
" recently
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: federation of Labor headquarters
; - . - . . . -from ministers is an assurance that
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' \ . " ' -Interest in the Idea of giving specis
" ' -attention to the cause of labor fror
, ' -the pulpit one day in the twelv
. " -months is widespread. Our readers
are urged to try to bring about an ur -
-derstanding In their respective dh - :
- tricts with representatives of th
that ministers will make
church so
addresses that may attract trade unior -
: ists to the churches in large numbers
lor the day. Ministers should say what
they think on the occasion in order
-that their trade union hearers ma ;
Tiut the right estimate as to where th
, . .church stands on the question of th
organization of labor. The more th
Subject is discussed the better will it
tbe for labor. Union ethics are sound
- American Fedcrationist. "
Observe that "Labor Union" mei
" ministers to
"are urged" to' Induce
make addresses that will attract trade
-unionists to the churches "for the
- lay. . " "Ministers should say " etc. ,
and winds up with "Union ethics are
threat.
" observe the hidden
-sound ;
This Is clipped from the America
Fedcrationist the organ of Sam Gom
al.
Tpers , et
This clipping has been sent to pa
. pers throughout the country and th <
Typographical Union men in the news
. offices instructed to "urge" that
paper
L It be printed.
" the "ma
That is one of" the ways of
, -chine. "
It looks harmless so the papers print
It
ItBut ! Let's lift the cover and lool
Binder.
The hidden motive Is as dangerous
ito the peace and liberty of the citi
coiled rattlesnake in the
sens as a
; grass.
Organization by workmen to peace
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lly and successfully present theii
's e is necessary and most commend
able. _
ble.There
There are such organizations now
; apldly ! winning their way to public
. jconfidence without strikes , dynamite
, or killing fellow workmen.
, . ) ( Some facts on this matter a little
' further along in this article. )
We see here a demand on the min-
listers of God , that they endorse and
'jhelp ( build up the strike-producing , ,
jboycotting and violent American Fed-
.eration of Labor.
Think of the man of God who
iteaches [ brotherly love being covertly
ordered to praise and help get new
r { members ; for an organization with a
' , record for violence , crime and murder
-done by Its members the like of which
seen.
the world has never
r Think of the thousands of women
: : ; made widows and the increasing thou-
sands of children left fatherless by
ifche pistol , club dynamite and boot
Sieel ! of members of this Labor Trust
Any one who recalls the countless
-murders done in the multitude of
, -strikes In the past few years will
agree this Is no exaggeration.
; , Take Just one as an illustration :
There were some thirty men mur-
'l } ered and over 5000 bruised and
: rmaimed .In the Chicago teamster
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There Is seldom a day passes but
somewhere in our country from one to
a soore of our fellow men are assaul -
ed or murdered by members of thi
band.
Then remember the homes blow
up or burned. The families hounded < ,
the rioting , burning of street cars ,
wrecking of trains and attempted or
successful killing of passengers.
The general disturbance of Industr
and the thousands of dollars force
from tax payers to pay extra police ,
sheriffs and militia to protect , even in
th
a feeble way , the citizens from
mobs of members of the America
Federation of Labor. ,
Then you will realize why the gree
peace-loving majority of over 80 ml -
lion Americans protest against th
crime-tainted organize
growth of this - ,
tion comprising perhaps one and one- <
half million men , of which it is est ! -
mated at least seven-tenths are pea6 < - '
loving citizens and are members bY'
coercion and are not in sympathy wit
the three-tenths who have gained cor -
trol and force their methods.
We find that a few designing me :
have seized control of the America
Federation of Labor , just as some
shrewd capitalists have secured coi -
trol of some railroads and other inI I
terests and are now twisting and turr - :
ing them into machines for persons
profit and fame.
These men cunningly plan to force
workmen to join and pay 25 to 75
cents a monfh in fees.
Various methods are used to "ir -
duce" workmen to join.
First , they talk of the "tyranny of
capital" making slaves of workmer
Then they work up enthusiasm
about the "brotherhood of man" an <
other talk which experience has
shown excites the emotions of worf -
men and they are induced to join ani
pay fees to the leaders.
The 5000 workmen in Battle Cree ]
are , as a rule , free from the dictates
of the great Labor Trust and still ge
the highest wages in Michigan. If :
they had yielded to the smooth tall
of the" agents of the trust and joined ,
they would pay in fees from $1250.0 (
to $2000.00 a month to the big trust
and be subject to strike orders any ;
I time.Now
Now they save that and put the
money into homes and family com -
forts
But the managers of the Americai
Federation of Labor have workei
hard and long to harness them.
The trust has sent small bales of
money and last winter 18 "organizers'
to tie up Battle Creek. They hired
halls , gave picture shows , smokers ,
etc. , as an investment , looking to rich
returns when they succeeded in hav -
Ing them tied hand and foot.
But they failed and the last of
these "organizers" left Battle Creel
on May 1st saying "it's no use. "
The workmen knew the record of
this great trust and formed their own
association to protect their rights and
also to protect them from the big
Labor Trust.
In Philadelphia some 4000 indepen
dent street car men , who mainly had
families , had their own union and re
fused to join the big trust , preferring
to he free to work or not as they
pleased.
But the trust plannett to force them
Into the fee-paying ranks , so a strike
was ordered to compel the traction
company to kick out these men and
hire only Labor Trust members.
It was not a question of wages or
hours but to push the free men out of
their positions where they were earn-
ing good money to support their fami-
lies. The strike was ordered , not to
raise wages or reduce hours , remem-
ber , but solely to throw out members
of an Independent union and make
places only for Labor Trust members ,
and thus show the independent men
they ; could not earn a living unless
they first paid fees to the trust man-
agers.
Incidentally the people of Philadel-
phia must submit to no car service ,
rioting and bloodshed with millions
in losses while these fee-hunting , noto-
riety seeking trust leaders were teach-
ing the world that industry cannot be
carried on except by workmen who
first bend the knee , bow the head and
pay fees.
How these men as strike leaders
ove to see their names In the papers
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each morning ! It's meat and brea
to their souls.
Then think of the lordly power , an
don't forget the steady flow of money
squeezed from the workman's har
earned pay enevelope.
But when these leaders "tie up" any
industry no man can hold a job who
refuses to pay fines even on trumpe
up charges , and steadily pay fee
whatever they are.
The workman is absolutely at th
mercy of this band of men who have
secured and hold control.
Many and many an honest workman
has raised his voice and appealed to
his fellows to rise and throw off th
yoke of Gompers , et al. But , as on
writes , "At every convention of th
American Federation of Labor , strong
opposition comes up but at the crli -
ical moment the impassioned orator
appears and most dramatically puts
the sp&t light on the leader and cover
him with a mawkish film of 'martyi -
dom' and the emotional delegates yel
in delight , forgetting the instructions
of the peaceful workingmen at home
who desire to free themselves fror
the odium of membership under th
great advocates of strike , boycott , vie -
lence and hate. "
So we see the unequalled insolence
with which these trust leaders prc -
i
pose to "induce" ministers to pul
their chestnuts from the fire by ;
preaching modern aggressive and vie -
lent labor trust methods.
There is a better way to secure jus
tice for workers , as will appear furtl -
er along. ,
Just a little diversion here.
I am charged with having first
brought to the attention of the public ,
some years ago , the name "Labo .
Trust. "
A trust Is a combination of men or
organizations for the purpose of sell
ing their product at a profit and re -
stricting production to effect it.
We will say a large Oil Company ;
gathers in smaller ones and thus con
trols production.
The Labor Trust "gathers in" loca :
trade organizations and thus has pow
er to say how much work each inai
shall dd.
The Oil Company then fixes prices
The Labor Trust does likewise.
The Oil Company may "use meth
ods" to forco an unwilling dealer to <
join.
join.The
The Labor Trust men go furthe :
and slug the independent man if he <
tries to sell his labor without payinj
fees and "obeying orders. " They an
both exactly alike in purpose , which , ,
in both cases is entirely selfish to
gain power and money for the leaders
Certain Labor Trust members do
not hesitate to use violence , dyna
miting of property , burning homes oi
independent men and even murder tc
force obedience.
The Oil Company doesn't go so far.
Both are extremely dangerous to
the welfare of people and comrnuni
ties , for power placed in the hands
of a few men either representing Cap-
ital or Labor is almost always abused
and the public suffers.
Remember , reader , that your safety
lies in strenuous opposition to all
trusts which try to ride over and dic-
tate to the people.
Only by opposing their growth can
you retain your personal liberty.
Now to ministers.
The average congregation is made
up of about 90 per cent. of free citi-
zens and much less than 10 per cent.
of members of tht ; Labor Trust.
The free citizen wants to hear words
defending the rights and independence
of the common man , free from the ar-
bitrary dictates of any self-seeking
organization either of Capital or La-
bor.
bor.The
The merchant , lawyer , school teach-
er , doctor , clerk , farmer and work-
man rebels against any forcible stop-
ping of trains , boats , street cars ,
or factories , for the prosperity of the
community is entirely dependent on
steady continuance of these things.
Men don't like strikes , boycotts , in-
ured ' workmen or burned cars and
factories.
A famous divine says : "These men
nay hate capitalists but their hate for
tther laboring men burns like a flame ,
sats like nitric acid , is malignant be-
yond all descriptioii. "
Then we remember cases of acid
throwing , eyes gouged out , children
pursued , women stripped , homes de
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the loni .
stroyed , m " n murdered and
long list of atrocities practised " 1 )
LaEbr Trust members on other huma
beings who cannot agree with the
trust methods.
Now for the better way.
Workingmen are now organizing in i
the old fashioned trades union or
"guild" way , affiliated with the Na- ;
tional Trades and Workers Associi .
tion whose constitution provides ai .
bitration of differences with agre -
ment for no strikes , boycott , picke .
ing or hateful coercion of any kind.
This Trade Association has evolve
from the experience of the past and
is the highest order of Trades Unioi .
ism at the present day.
Under its laws it is not possible for
the Hod Carriers Union or the Stre
Sweepers Union to order the schoi
teachers or locomotive engineers to t
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quit work in a "sympathetic strike. '
If any craft finds injustice , the cas (
is presented to properly selected arb ' .
trators , testimony taken and the case
presented to the public through the
press. Thereupon public opinion , tin
greatest of all powers , makes itse
felt and curiously enough a fair settli -
ment is generally the result.
There is no strike , no loss of wage ; .
no loss to the community and yet tho
faithful workers get their just trea .
ment.
There are many details which hav
been worked out by men skilled in
labor matters.
It will recompense any intereste
man to know these details which ca
be secured by a postal request for
constitution and by-laws written to
the National Trades and Workers ' As : ,
sociation , Kingman Block , Battl
Creek , Mich. :
Reader , look carefully into thi
great question of the relations of Car ]
ital and Labor and its successful s6 <
lution. The new plan works an
brings results for the members , -
- T "b ecanie " " ' " so favorably inipresse
with the trustworthiness and practh .
ability of the leaders of this new Iz .
bor movement that I gave the Associ ,
ation a sanitoriuni at Battle' Cree
worth about $400,000 and with abou
300 rooms , to be used as a home fd r :
their old members and the lielples
babies , sometimtis \ made fatherless by
the pistol , club or boot heel of some
.
member of the \iolent "Labor Trust :
Suppose you attend church Labo : :
Sunday and hear what your minister
has to say in defense of the safet ;
and rights of th ! common , everyda ;
man.
man.Let me ask you to read again a poi .
tion of one of my public articles prinl .
ed a few years ago.
"The people of the world have giv
en me money enough to spend ii
these talks through ! the papers in try
ing to make betiiir and safer condi
tions for the common people , whether :
the Postum business runs or not.
Scores of letters have come to m
from work-people and others , some
from union men recounting their suf
ferings from union domination anc
urging that their cases be laid befon
the public.
It will not answer fo ? us to only
sympathize with tae poor , the op
pressed , those who haven't power :
enough to drive off tyrants and re
sent oppression , we must help them
tie : the hands of the oppressors. Amer
[ cans must act.
Some of my forebears in New Eng
land left comfortable homes , tool
with them the old flint locks , slept on
the ; ground in rain a > id frost ; hungry ,
footsore , and half. clothed they grimly
pushed on where the Eternal God of
Human Liberty urged them. They
wove for me and for you a mantle ol
freedom , woven in a loom where the
shuttles were cannon balls and bul
lets and where swords were used to
pick ) out the tangles in the yarn.
These old , sturdy frandads of ours
stood by tjaat loom until the mantle
was finished , then , stained with their
ife blood it was handed down to us.
Shall I refuse to bea/ it on my : shoul-
lers because the wearing costs me
a few dollars , and are you towards
mough to hide yours because some
oreign labor union anarchist orders
you to strip it off ?
I have faith that the blood of 1770
till ; coursing In your vslns will tingle
nd call until you waken. Then
onericana-'will Act" There's a Re4t
on- " - C. W. POST.
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PR 0 GRESSIVE WEST IS
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PRAISED BY ROOSEVELT I
Vigorous Speech by Former President
Is Climax of Great Frontier Days
Celebration at Cheyenne , Wyo. - - -
Cattle Range Men Warmly Greet
Their Old Associate.
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Cheyenne , Wyo. , Aug. 27. - Tl
great virile virtues of the men who
have built up the west formed the
theme of a speech which Theodo
Roosevelt delivered here today befo
thousands of those same men and
thir successors. He arrived In the
private car Republic abou 10:30 ;
o'clock this morning and was at om
taken in charge by a reception coi -
mittee and a mounted escort of a tho -
sand cowboys and cowgirls who shot -
ed and cavorted as the former pre -
dent and one-time ranchman alighte
from the train.
Mr. Roosevelt's visit and the speec
he delivered later in the day forme
the culmination of the annual Front
Days celebration wuich had attracts
to the city thousands of persons fro :
all parts of the west and a large nui -
ber of tourists from more distant se -
tions of the country.
Colonel Roosevelt's Speech.
Out In the open air , under the blue
sky , a vast crowd assembled to hez
the former president speak , and it I
heard one of the most importai
speeches he has made since leavir ,
the White House. His address was as
follows :
When , at the close of my hunting trip
In Africa , I reached the borders of civil -
zation , the first invitation I accepted was
this , to visit the capital of Wyoming on
the day when the people of the frontl <
came together to commemorate their !
achievements ; I was glad It was so , bi -
cause I have a peculiar feeling for the :
men and women of what used to be calle
the "Far West , " and especially ! for thos
of the cattle country. For a number of
years I lived on a ranch on the Littl
Missouri , sharing work and play , goo
fortune and bad fortune , with my neigl -
bors ; working on the round-up serving
as delegate from the Little Missou ;
round-up district to the Montana StocP -
growers' association , and even at time
acting as deputy sheriff at my end of the
county. I count those years as amon
the most valuable of my life becaus
nothing breeds such community of feelin
as to work with one's fellowmen at thel
Ife tasks , and to learn to know thei
feelings by actually sharing them. Th
man of the west , throughout the succes
ive stages of western growth , has al -
vays been one of the two or three mos
yplcal ; figures - indeed , I am tempted to
say the most typical figure-In America
ife , and no man can really understan
) > ur country and appreciate what it reall ;
Is and what it promises unless he ha
he fullest and closest sympathy with th
deals and aspirations of the west. Th
) > rime reason for this is to be found in
he : fact the westerner Is so good ai
American. He Is an American first am
bremost ; for this is the great lesson
riends that all of us need to learn and
to keep , the lesson that it is unimportant
rhether a man lives north or south , east
or west , provided he is genuinely and ii
rood faith an American , that he feel
very part of the United States as his :
' desirous to
) wn . and that he is honestly
iphold the interests of all other Amerl
ans whatever sections of the country ;
hey may dwell.
A hundred years ago , when men spoke
of the west they meant the country be-
ween the Alleghanies and the : Mississippi
"Mfty " years ago the white man's wes
nok in Minnesota. Iowa and Kansas , and
hen skipped across to California and
) ) rogon. The country of the great plains : ,
nd thr Rockies the country in whirl
you whom I am now addressing lead your ;
ivos and do your work : , has grown ui
within my : own lifetime. I myself fiav
nd took part in the closing years of the
ioneer period , and it was my frroat pr \ v -
side with the pjo
! ! oe to work side by
nC'ers-the ranchmen the miners , the <
ow-punchers the mule-skinners , the bul
, -hackors - who actually opened up the
ountry. I have seen the herds and flocks
of the cattlemen and sheepmen supplant :
the game ; I have seen the fortunate
lovement by which the small farm has
snded gradually to take the place of the
reat unfenccd ranch. I now travel In
very comfort on railways across lands
which. when I first rode across them ,
rere still the home of the Indian and the
uffalo ; and I find cities where one can
btain not merely comfort , but luxury , In
the places where thirty years ago there
as not a building beyond a log hut or a
obie house. The men who did this wo'rh
ere engaged in the final stages of con-
uering the continent ; and it was their
rivilege to do one of the great works of
an time to do their part in the perform-
nce of an epic feat In the history of the
rogress of mankind.
West Stands for Progress.
I have us ed the word progress. The
est stands for growth for progress. So
lust the whole American people stand.
A great democracy must be progressive
or It will soon cease to be either great
or democratic. No nation no state no
arty , can stand still. It must either go
rward or go backward ; and it becomes
seless If it goes backward. Therefore I
greet you men of the west and I stand
for > progress as all men must stand who
are progressive.
The pioneers and their immediate suc-
jssors won victory only by proving that
they possessed the great masterful quali-
ties which lie at the foundation of Xa-
onal greatness. There are certain well-
.eaning men of Intellectual cultivation
but lacking mental and moral robustness
who complain continually that thf y find
merican life , and especially the life of
those American communities emerging
om the pioneer stage , crude and with-
out genius or beauty. Genius is a fine
ling for a nation , but character Is a still
finer thin , and though beauty Is good
rength is an even greater good. The
men who have made this great republic
of the west what It Is. and especially the
men who have turned it into a continental
mmonwealth , have possessed in the
ighest degree the great virile virtues of
rength , courage , energy , and undaunted
and unwavering resolution. Their typical
? aders : ! - of whom Abraham Lincoln
lough the most exceptional was the
ost typical-have possessed keen intel-
gence , and' a character not merely
rong but lofty a character exalted by
the fact that great power ' was accom-
mied by a high and fine determination
to i uae this great power for the common
good , for the advancement of mankind
The pioneer days are over , save in a few
acei ; and the more complex Ufa of
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today calls for a greater variety of good
qualities than were needed on tho fron-
tier. ' There is need at oresent to en-
courage the development of new abilities.
which can be brought to high perfection
only by a kind oftrainlng useless in pio-
neer times ; but these new qualities can
only supplement and ne \ er supplant tho
old , homely virtues ; the need for tho
special and distinctive pioneer virtues is
as great as ever. In other words , as our
civilization grows older and more com-
plex , 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 It is yet
also true that we need a greater and not
a less development of the fundamental
frontier virtues. These virtues 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 frontier
conditions must In looking back , realize
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 frontiei
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-
hard-working , 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 Uke 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 a 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 Doers and Wrong Systems. .
In continually and earnestly striving for
this betterment of social and economic
conditions in our complex industrial civI-
lization we should work In the old fron-
tier spirit of brotherly comradeship and
good will. I do not mean that we should
refrain from hating wrong ; on the con-
trary. I would preach firey 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 a wrong or false sys
tern , 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-
imps it represents the effects of a 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 It
Is necessary sometimes to work In ac-
cordance with one and sometimes In ac-
cordance with the other.
Before ending I wish to say a word on
something which I believe should espe-
cially interest all men who live in the
. ' ' all who
open country , and especially men
during the past thirty years have lived
and worked on ranches or have done
their life work in the wilder parts of our
and. on the great plains or among the
mountains. The phasr ; of our national
life in which the stockman tho mining
rospector , were the chief characters was
not only a very important but also a
. rery picturesque phase. Often such a.
> hasp passes without any great artist . .
arising to commemorate it. * .
Tho old-time backwoodsman , for in-
itance , tho man of the back country
vho lived in the eastern forests through
which the waters ran eastward to the
Atlantic and westward to the Mississippi.
passf'd away without any painter or
sculptor arising who possessed at onoo
loth the keenness of vision to SCP what
a vital and picturesque figure the back- ; eo
I'oodsman was and the genius adequate-
ly to present that figure. The artist who
saw that plcturesquenoss of the hack-
roodsman lacked the genius adequately i
to commemorate it , while the artists of '
eal ability unfortunately had their eyes
urned : towards Europe and lacked the ro- .
iust originality which the novelist Coop-
er showed-to see where their .chances lay
to : do a great work. But in our genera-
ion , for our good fortune a great artist
rose who was capable of seeing and of
ecording the Infinite plcturesque ness of
the life of the plains and the Rockies.
Eulogy of Remington.
Of course I speak 0 : Frederic Reming-
ton. He was one of those Americans who
bj' his achievements distinctly deserved
-ell of America. He worked with pencil ,
with brush with chisel , he was both a
ainter and a sculptor. His pictures and
is few bronzes are equally good. When ,
ly own regiment , a typically western
egiment recruited mainly from the men
of the great plains and the mountains ,
was disbanded at Montauk Point the offi-
prs and enlisted mpn joined In glvim
le Remington's "Bronze Bronco Buster , "
a gift which I thought peculiarly appro-
) riate coming from such a body of men.
In Remington's pictures all the most
ivid and characteristic features of the
western pioneer life which Is just closing
rere : set forth , and the commemorated
Drever the men of the plains and the
lountains as they actually were. The
owboy ' is his , favorite type but the min-
ig prospector the frontier farmer , the
mn who guides ox-wagon or mule-team
the soldier , the Indian , - all appear. Now
I : wish very much that thesr men them-
2lves would In their turn provide a mon-
ment for the great artist the sum of
whose activities represent such a feature
of American achievements and , above
all , represents a commemoration of some
of the most Interesting : figures that have
ver appeared on the stage of American
fe. A statue should be raised to Rem-
igton by some really first class artist.
Here at Cheyenne in this gathering
lany hundreds of the men have come
jgether who were themselves typical
jaders In and representatives of the very
life which Remington so portrayed that
It will always live. I hope that these
len will Join together , arrange the ap-
olntment of a committee , and start to.-
ilse funds for the erection ot such a
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