The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-11-09
SEES AN AIRSHIP,

Florence, S. c., Nov. 9.-President
Taft started for Washington yester-
day afternoon leaving Augusta after
two days Of rest and welcome. He
stopped here three hours to receive
the welcome of this little town of
10000, to which was added a host
from the surrounding country.
In the throng, which lined the
streets from the depot to the Central
schoolhouse, and which listened to an
address by the president, there were
more Confederates than in the rest
OF the South put together. The pres
ident's visit to Florence was also
marked by his introduction to the
famous "pine bark stew" of the Pee
Dee section of South Carolina.
The president had been looking for
ward to this stew with mingled emo
lions of pleasurable anticipation and
fear. When it appeared as the ma
jor course in the Florence banquet
last night it proved to be nothing
more or less than a delectable fish
chowder, highly spiced and stewed
over pine bark fire sufficiently long
to get some of the flavor of the pine
into the decoction.
Went to the Fair.
Before leaving Augusta yesterday
afternoon 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 bal
loon, with its engines awhirl. immed-
lately over the grand stand.
The president was talking of ship
subsidy at the time. and after he had
paused to look at the receding bal.
loon he exclaimed.
Il hesitate so occupy your time in
discussing an old method of trans
porting goods when you have before
your eyes the newest one invented,
and yet I venture to think it will be
some time before that method Of
transportation will be followed in the
moving of cotton bales.''
1t had been intended that the presi-
dent should stop here only an hour
and ten minutes. but the local com.
mittee secured Encouragement of
the schedule by which they might
hold him for three times that long,
and yet deliver him to Wilmington
early Tuesday morning.
Warned EN- to be Honest.
The presidential train arrived early
and left shortly before IL o'clock D. m. |
In his speech, delivered in the open
air here last night, President Taft !
the people of the South not to !
let the prosperity of fifteen-cent cot !
ton run away with them, but to re-
to demand in all business af- !
fairs the standard of integrity and !
outlined by Theodore Roose- /
Welt
The price of liberty is eternal vigi- !
lance, and l say to you that the price
Of elevating moral standards is eter-
nal vigilance" he said.
"Now. my friends, we are apt to
get enthusiastic over fifteen-cent cot
ton and the growth of cities and ,
states and all this material prosper
ity. But l hope that in so doing we
shall not forget the responsibilities .
mat ought 10 accompany our material |
growth. We have been prosperous
before. We were exceedingly prosper
BUS in 1907, and for several years be-
fore that.
What T. r. Saw.
But there came a time when Theo-
lore Roosevelt and men like him. who
saw that the tendency which came
rom that prosperity to an accumu-
alton Of wealth in individual hands
oy means that were not legal and
could not be morally supported call
ID for halt and called for an inves
igation of our prosperity, and called
or the enactment of legislation that
should restrict our growth in order
hat it Nigh. be along lines of legal
ty and along lines Of business integ-
-ity and morality.
But 1 am no pessimist I believe
We are growing steadily better and
,etter. and that the way We responded
o the call. when Roosevelt uttered
t. showed that we would not be brib-
ID by material comforts and luxury
nto sleepiness and inactioa in mat