The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-11-12
TAFT NEARING END
OF LONG JOURNEY
ACROSS CONTINENT
PRESIDENT is NOW TRAVELLING
RAPIDLY TOWARD THE
CAPITAL.
THAMES SOUTH FOR HOSPITALITY
Discusses the Possibilities Of This
seetion-Declares That he Favors
a National Board of Sanitation.
Open Big Fair at Augusta.

FLORENCE, S. c., Nov. S.-Leavins
Augusta and two days OF welcome res
behind him. President Taft started fol
Washington this afternoon and stop
ped here for three hours tc
receive welcome in this lit
tie community of 10000 population as
demonstrative as many he has re-
ceiyed in cities of far more preten.
tious proportions. In the throng
which lined the streets from the depot
to the central school house, and which
listened to an address by the Presi-
dent there, were more veterans than
in the rest of the South put together.
The Presidents visit to Florence
was also marked by his Introduction
to the famous Pine Bark Stew of
the Pee Dee section of South Care.
lima. The President had been looking
forward to this stew with mingled
emotions of pleasurable anticipation
and fear When it appeared as the
major course in the Florence banquet
tonight, it proved to be nothing more
or less than a delectable fish chowder.
highly spiced and stewed over a pine
bark fire sufficiently long to get some
of the flavor of the pine into the de-
coction.
Before leaving Augusta this after
noon, the President assisted in the
opening of the Georgia-Carolina fair
He had the novel experience OF having
his address interrupted by the passing
Of an airship, or dirigible balloon, with
its engines awhir, Immediately over
the grandstand.
In his speech, delivered in the open
air here tonight President Taft warn
ed the people of the South not to let
the prosperity of 15-cent cotton run
away with them, but to remember to
demand in all business affairs the
standard of integrity and morality |
by Theodore Roosevelt.
'At no place in South Carolina or
elsewhere in my travels, said the |
President, had l more reasons to con-
graduate myself on a cordial recep-
ion than here in Florence. l am told
here is something in the price of cot
on that makes your voices a little
ouder. your smiles a little wider and
your contentment a little greater,
tut, my friends, you ought not to be
carried off your feet by prosperity
md fail to call for a maintenance of
high standards of business morality
md citizenship. The price of liberty
s eternal vigilance, and l say to you
hat the price of elevating moral
tandards is eternal vigilance.
President Taft said that perhaps he {
lad not been in public Office long ;
nough to estimate public receptions
t their true worth.
But l believe verify in my heart {
e added, that the receptions l have {
eceived everywhere in the South are /
sincere desire on the part of the !
eople to testify to their loyalty and !
y the expressions of respect and well
ONE to the head of the nation" 5
L. C. Wheeler, of the secret service, d
.ho has been ahead of the President p
the trip, making arrange f
rents, joined the party today and re- s
eived a hearty commentator from d
4. Taft. q
L am glad to see you, Wheeler" b
e said your arrangements every. 0
here have been perfect. I congratu-
tie you" D