The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-04-09

be secured by making it for their adj
vantage also. cloud applause.) And
about all that l have said applies ito
the greatest and richest of those 81
ands, the island with which we have
been brought into the most peculiar
intimacy and relationship-the
ask that in our trade relations with
Cuba we give her a marked and sub
stantial advantage, not merely or even
mainly because it will rebound to our
interest to do so, although that also is
true, but ask it especially
because the events have so shaped
themselves that it is our duty as a
great and mighty nation to help Cuba,
and l hope to see us do our duty.
CHEERS and applause.) ! shall not try
to make you any speech tonight, be-
cause for your sins you will have to
listen to me make one tomorrow.
(1aughter) l shall merely thank
you again with all my
heart and say to you that
want you to appreciate that
l mean every word 1 say and mean it
deeply when l tell you l have been
touched, more than pleased, touched
and stirred by the warmth and hearth
ness with which you have made me
cloud applause and cheerS.)
The President was followed by Gov.
insolvency, who prefaced his prepared
speech by few words" in which he as
sured the President that he was as
safe from bodily harm in South Caro-
lima as he was in Washington. Con-
tinuing, he said;
The Old south and the New.
Gov McSweeney said in part:
g The Anglo-S Saxon is entering the
new century with the imperial crown
of the ages on his brow and the scepter
of the infinite in his hands.
The old South fought against the
stars in their courses-the resisting tide
of the rising consciousness of national
ity and world nilsson. The young
South greets the new era and glories
in it's manhood He joins his voice
in the cheers of triumph which are
ushering in this all-conquering Saxon.
Our old men dreamed of local sup
remacy We dream of the conquest of
the globe. Threads of steel have knit
state to state. State and electricity
have silently transformed the face Of
the earth, annihilated time and space,
and swept the ocean barriers from the
path of man. The black steam shut
ties of commerce have woven continent
to continent
"These words are taken from a
speech delivered at a momentous crisis
in the history of sister state.
civil liberty and religious freedom
have been placed in our keeping as a
trust, and it is our duty to be faithful
to that trust and move on and upward
until the peoples of all lands shall en-
ioy the same blessings which are ours.
Threads of steel have indeed knit US
close together, and now we know no
North and no South, no East and no
West. but hand in hand we are striv-
ing for the uplifting and betterment
of mankind.
United in Spanish War.
ct want to say in this presence, and
in the presence of the President of the
United States, that while we may not
agree on many questions of policy, that
we are all American citizens and the
BOYS of the South, will respond to the
call of their country, which is the call
of duty, as quickly and readily as those
of any other section. When four years
ago America let slip the dogs of war
and sent her armies and navies to
drive the tyrarlt from Cuba's wasted
shores, together in the gloom of the
CORY trenches and the ranparts wrapt
in flames,' stood the sons of the frozen
North who wore the blue, with those
of the sunny South, who wore the grey,
to defend the honor of their common
country. Side by side and shoulder to
shoulder, they fought, until the broken
power of Spain in the Western world
attested the fact that the men who
made and withstood Pickett's charge
at Gettysburg could clasp hands over
the graves of their fallen heroes and
together shed their blood in defense OF
human rights and their country
cause. 1t was a Southern boy who
first planted the Stars and Stripes on
foreign SOIL it was Southern boy who
first gave up his fair young life
in this cause, and the cold
still form of Ensign Bagley,
wrapped about the silken folds of his
country's flag, was laid to rest mid
the lamentations of a reunited people
And in the self same sepulchre where
lie the braves who gave their lives IN
that conflict, is buried the last. rem
nant of any antagonism which might
have existed between the sections
at am glad that President Roosevelt
has come to this grand old city, that
he NAV see and know us as we are;
that he may know and realize that
though we may not agree in politics,
we know how to welcome the President
of our common country, that he may
know and appreciate what Southern
hospitality means. and right here In
Charleston he will find the highest
tyne of this old-time Southern hospi-
tally. We hope that his coming VIII
be beneficial to all or u.s.
Capt. WAGNER, Gov. Aycock OF
North Carolina and several others
made short addresses.
The President Cheered-
Tt was midnight when the party
broke up and as the President left the
room he was cheered to the echo, not
only by those who had been fortunate
enough to attend the banquet but by
the large numbers who had patiently
waited in the hotel parlors and outside
to catch a glimpse of him.
Upon arriving at his hotel he imme-
diately retired.
THO PRESIDENTS ARRIVAL.