New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-06

meet foreign competition and had no
tariff wall to lie snug behind?
THE board Is looking for what no man
can find. 1t may furnish us with much
valuable information and may be worth
keeping for that, but 1t cannot do what
it was set to do So far, it has been
made a mere excuse for doing nothing
| Mr.. Wilson was very much disappointed
| when Canada rejected reciprocity. we
| have strangely neglected our trade with
| our neighbors, both to the north ani
J south of u.s." he said Il was interested
| in reciprocity with Canada as the begin
ming OF new outlook and policy when
| should reawaken our trade. Among other
things that the tariff has done has been
10 destroy our merchant marine. our
navigation laws have, of course, contrib
uted to the same end, but they are simply
part OF the tariff policy-part OF our de-
termination TO prevent Americans, II pos
sible. from buying anything anywhere
/ except In America
| Calling ourselves commercial and IN
| dustrial nation, we have SO hampered all
| our foreign commerce that IT has existed
| only in spite Of huge artificial difficulties.
and the most enterprislng people In the
world have forfeited their initiative In
! foreign markets by deliberately giving
Up the carrying trade Of the world. We
| shall grow rich some day when we really
| learn how, when We cease preying upon
| our own people by putting them In hot
house, where they sweat az much as they
| profit. and turn our eyes TO genuine en-
terprise and free effort again throughout
the world"
Since his nomination Mr.. Wilson has
added little in his speeches to the above
general impressions of his policy.
Judging from his past conduct, Mr..
Wilson will depend largely upon publicity
for aid in helping him solve the public
problems of the day.
There Is. OF course, no single soVe-
reign remedy for anything" he once de-
| clared, but publicity certainly acts upon
crooked projects like the fresh and open
| air upon tuberculosis. 1t is a great anti
septic against the germs OF some OF the
worst political methods Government that
is kept constantly in the open is very apt
TO be honest and healthy government"
A Virsinian by Birth.
Mr. Wilson Is a Virglnlan by birth. His
father, the Rev. Joseph Ruggles Wilson,
moved 20 Georgia in 1853. when the boy
was two years old. He also preached In
various churches in North and South
Carolina while his son was growing up.
The young man entered Davidson Col
lege at the age Of seventeen and remained
there two years. Then he entered Prince
ton. from which he was graduated In 1873.
After his graduation he studied law In
the University OF Virginia. receiving the
degree of Bachelor of Laws In lS& lie
received the degree of Bachelor of PHI
Iosophy from Johns Hopkins University
IN 1886 that of Doctor OF Laws from
Wake Forest University, North Carolina.
IN 1877 and that OF Doctor Of Literature
from Yale University at it's bicentennial
celebration.
| Professor Wilson occupied the position
OF adjunct professor OF history In Bryn
Mawr College and was afterward pro-
lessor Of history and political economy
I'm Wesleyan University. In 1880 he be-
came professor Of Jurisprudence and po-
litical economy at Princeton. In 1895 the
title of his chair was changed TO that OF
professor OF Jurisprudence, and upon lts
| endowment he became Mccormick pro"
lessor OF jurisprudence and politics. Pro-
| lessor Wilson also for number or years
gave a course OF lectures In Johns Hop
kins University.
He obtained celebrity az lecturer and
vr,ter His work entitled 'The State"
and his Life OF George Washington" are
among his best known writings. Profess
COR Wilson became the thirteenth in the
roll OF presidents at Princeton In 1902.
and the frst layman TO hold this office,
all his predecessors having been Presby-
ter,an clergymen He is, however, a
| ru,,no elder in the Second Presbyterian
church OF Princeton. AS a professor he
was very popular, and his elective classes
were always among the largest.
When Mr.. Wilson. after twenty-five
vears of service as an educator, resigned
the presidency Of Princeton in 1910 to
occ.nt from ex-senator Smith and his
forouers the nomination for Governor OF
New Jersey, there was a general ten
aencv 10 look askance at the "scho"'-
Easter in politics" However. he
carried into office on the radical aa,i-
Republican wave that swept so many
states. His first act was to antagonize
the forces that supported him. Ex-Sen-
ator Smith asked him TO help him remove
the "ex" from his title. WILSON bluntly
reused TO interfere In any way with
the choice of the primaries. and so James
r MARITIME assumed the toga instead.
| No sooner had the Governor won the
onnroval of the radicals by furthering
,he massage OF some OF their pet legs-
iot,on than he began TO lose it again by
his prolonged absences from trenton IN
his long campaign for the PRESIDENTIAL
| nomination.