The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-10-27
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Roosevelt LdudS the Lost
Cause.

Cause.
During his recent tour through
the southland, President Roose-
welt has spoken in the highest
and warmest terms of the Con-
federate soldier and the cause for
which he so bravely fought. At
Raleight, N. c., he said:
THE position of honor in your
parade today is held by the Con-
federate veterans. They, by
their deeds, reflect credit upon
their descendants and upon all
Americans, both because they
did their duty in war and be-
cause they did their duty in
peace. Now, if the young men,
their sons, will not only prove
that they possess the same power
of fealty to an ideal but will also
show the efficiency in the ranks
of industrial life that their
fathers, the Confederate veter-
ans, showed that they possess.d
in the ranks of war, the ind,ss-
trial future of this great and
typical 4 ,nerican commonwealth
is assured"
The, next day at Atlanta he
spoke as follows of"the boys in
GSey:
Great though the need of praise
ssWhich is due the south for the
laierlY Xalor her sons displayed
sduring the fou., y,aa,.r IF xrqss.1 u
think that even greater praise is
due to her for what her people
have accomplished in the forty
wears of peace which followed.
For forty years the south has
made not merely courageous,
but at times desperate struggle,
as she has striven for moral and
material well-being. Her sue
cess has been extraordinary, and
all citizens of our common coun-
try should feel joy and pride in
it: for any great deed done, or
any fine qualities shown, by one
group of Americans, of necessity
i, reflects credit upon all Amerl:
cans. Only a heroic people could
have battled successfully agalns'
the conditions with which the
people of the south found them
selves face to face at the end o1
the civil war. There had beer
utter destruction and disaster
and wholly new business AM
social problems had to be face
with the scantiest means. In
economic and political fabric ha
to be readjusted in the midst Q
dire want, of grinding poverty
The future of the broken, wal
swept south seemed beyond hope
and if her sons and daughter
had been of weaker fiber ther
would in very truth have bee
no hope. But the men and tn
sons of the men who had face
with unfaltering front every a
formation of good and evil TO
tune from Manassas to Appoma
tox, and the women, their wiz
and mothers, whose courage al
endurance had reached an ev'
higher heroic level-these M
and these women set themselv
undauntedly to the great ia
before them. For twenty yea
the struggle was hard and
times doubtful. Then the sple
did qualities of your manho
and womanhood told, as tn
were bound to tell, and
wealth of your extraordins
natural resources began to-
shown. Now the teeming ricl
of mine and field and factory
test the prosperity of those "
are all the stronger because
the trials and struggles thror
which this prosperity has col
You stand l)yally to your trs
tions and memories; you
stand loyalty for our great ct
mon country Of today and
our common flag, which SYM
ICES all that is brightest and N
hopeful for the future Of m
kind; you face the new age
the spirit of age. Alike In
material and in your splri