The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-13

years. but In that growth We ought to
be careful not to be carriel off our
feet and made Indifferent to our re-
sponsibilities as citizens, and IL ought
~ be determined that we shall MAIN
tain a high standard as citizens und
shall frown down and stamr upon by
legal methods. the corrupt methods
introduced for the purpos, Of pe-pet-
uating a monopoly. We ought TO
make up our minds that l: is n busi-
ness which We must attend to always.
The price of liberty Is eternal vlsil.
ance. So 1 say to you the price Of
exalted moral standards is eternal
vigilance.
1T Is easy for the peop,s to forge;
everything but material progress. l
hope we have had lesson In the las,
six or eight years that will prevent
our forgetting it,"
NOW, my friends. there IL nothing
Inconsistent with proper ma,crial
gr'wth, and tho elevation of our moc-
al standard Of living. I am nv pcssi-
mist. I believe we have gone on
steadily getting better and better. and
I think We showed by responding to
the call when Theodore Roosevelt ut
tered 1t that we were not to be bribed
into, quietness and sleepiness by the
comfort and conscience and wealth Of
our prosperity.
zone other thought comes to me,
that have repeated from time to
time. but 1t forces itself on me every
time look into the faces of an intel
ligent audience like this. and that Is
that 1t would be impossible for me to
tell II were transported from some
where else blindfolded. and looked
at It whether were in New England,
in Ohio In the Middle West, or on the
Pacific coast. or in the South; II
were &C. hear their voices I might be
able to tell by the emphasis on the
"r" On the end Of words that was
somewhere South Of the Mason and
Dixon line. With that exception a
slight accent in the East in the West
and In the South We are all alike.
1T gives me pride that I cannot ex-
press TO travel from the Atlantic
shore to the Pacific shore and back,
on the Northern border and the
Southern border and find a homogen-
ity OF ninety millions Of people that
means an American type. not English
or German. or French. no matter
what cur descent, but that we have
taken In millions Of foreigners who
have come to build up this country
and been received into our society
and that we have amalgamated them
and thsy have all become Americans,
showing the traits Of character that
sharpens and accentuates that high
moral standard that We like to think
and believe Is characteristic Of Amer
ican.'
Now my friends, have one other
thought. and that is. this journey has
satisfied me that there are no section
al lines between the North and the
South any more. You have your ira
ditions. and great and noble ones
they are. We have ours In the North.
We have now reached a time when
We are proud of our traditions, and
L know you are proud Of yours, and
while our memories lead us back to
a tremendous bloody fratricidal strug-
gle our present condition makes us
thank God that 1t Is over without any
lingering memories Of bitterness, each
for the other, but all proud that we
have g. past which shows us capable
of self-sacrific and suffering for the
right s.s We understand 1t, and such
swelling of hearts and such a loyalty
to the entire country today that,
while We remember those things, we
only love each other better on ac-
count Of them. That thought has
been horne in upon me ever since 7
the Southland, and received
such cordial reception and welcome
from the western border of Texas
down to Charleston on the Atlantic.
II profess to know something about
human nature and to understand
what people mean when they say,
when they look and when they act,
and l verify believe in my heart, that
the reason have had throughout the
South this reception has been a sim
cere desire on the part Of the people
In all that district to testify to their
loyalty by expressions of respect and
welcome to the head of the nation"
AT the conclusion Of the supper in
hnnnr ~ Tho S,o.tIo~A