Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-10-25
The Presidential Journey.
News and Courier, October 2sd


welcome to President Roosevelt. His
trip from Washington TO Jacksonville
has given occasion for succession of
ovations which could scarcely have been
equalled, and certainly could not have
been excelled, in enthusiasm, in any
other section of the country. And it
should be said, too, that if the hosts of
the occasion have given themselves over
to vertable riot of personal and patri-
otic fervor their guest has entered into
the spirit of their ecstacy with readi-
ness and an abandon which has baked
at nothing which promised to promote
the continuance of the revel.
AT Raleigh, so a correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun informs us, President
Roosevelt assured certain gentlemen that
he was as ardently opposed to social
equality and iutermarrage of the races
as any Southern white man could be; at
Richmond and Charlotte he stood before
Confederate monuments and proudly
proclaimed the pride which he took in
the men in whose honor they were
erected; to the neighbors of his mother
in her girlhood he recounted the deeds
of his kinsmen who served under the
Stars and Bars and asserted his fellow
ship with the men who honored them
and their cause.
In more serious vein, during the
course of his set speeches, he has dealt
with national problems with which his
auditors were mostly intimately con-
cerncd and for vastly the most part he
has professed to see them from view
point which is vastly popular in the
South. 1t is not too much to say that
the Presidents tour of the South has
resolved itself into an apparently unad-
Journable meeting of mutual admira
ton society, of which he and his hosts
are the members, and the competition
between them as to which shall express
the most cordial liking and esteem for
the other grows constantly keener as it
is continued with the progress of the
journey.
In Atlanta the President dwelt upon
the menace contained in the rapid
growth of individual wealth. He de-
clared the Federal regulation of corpora
tlons an inevitable necessity of the fu-
ture, and he sought at some length to
Justify the faith that was III him. But
he warned his hearers that industry and
enterprise must not be impeded by the
imposition upon them of restraint and
control which would hamper or retard
them. His reference to the life insur-
ance scandals was somawhat vague in
terms, but it was sufficiently specific in
Intention to satisfy those who reprehend
the abuses uncovered by the Armstrong
committee that he is with them in pur-
pose. Realizing the shock that had been
administered by these things to the pub
lie conscience, he declared that public
opinion must be looked to to redress it's
own wrongs by outlawing the men and
measures reprehended. He dwelt upon
the South's concern in her great staple
production, and promised to seek to re-
move causes which appeared to menace
its best interests. The boycott in China
being one of these, he discussed ways
and means of an equitable adjustment of
that situation.
This is quite an imposing list of impor-
tant subjects to be discussed in the space
of single brief address, but President
Roosevelt accomplished the task in
manner that was always interesting.
And so his triumphal progress pro-
cceds. Between Fluctuations of his
hosts upon their marvellous achieve
mentS In the past and the present, and
representations concerning the yet more
marvellous things that they, in common
with their reunited cOuntrymcn, will ac-
complish in the future, the stages of the
Presidential journey are proving one
continuous round of pleasure and cdif-
cation.
Neither party to this delightful re-
union of hearts and mind has as yet
given any sign of exhaustion. The wave
of good fellowship constantly rises
higher and higher. If there was more
popular ecstacy in Atlanta than there
was at Releigh, so was there more rein
given to President Roosevelt's individual
and official condolences. TO what point
it will all come when high tide is reached
at New Orleans it is needless to inquire.
One may only say that sufficient unto
each day have been the delights thereof
so far and permit the morrow to fashion
for us what new joys it may.
The constitutionality of the Brice Law
has been attacked in the Federal Court.
Judge Pritchard has been asked for
mandamus requiring the board of con