Imperial Valley press., 1912-11-07
WOODROW WILSON STUDIED
THE WORK FORTY YEARS

Los Angeles Examiner: Woodrow
perhaps unconsciously but neverthe-
less carefully and studiously. for forty
years for the exalted office of presi-
dent.
There has never been a closer stu
dent of American political affairs since
Hamilton and Madison. There is moth
ing about congress or the White House
that would taFe him greatly by sur
prise. AT the age of % he mad writ
ten a coll ge thesis that showed him
TO be even at that time one of the
keenest analysts of our national legis-
lature we ever had. And in later years
he turned his sharp scrutiny upon the
White House and wrote the most in
forming and Illuminating treatises on
the powers and limitations of the pres
ident that have ever been published.
Aside from these special investiga-
tions his whole life has been a long
and exhaustive study of the American
people in their social and political re-
lations, as, indeed, were those of his
forebears before him.
born in Ireland. He emigrated to
America about a century ago and set
tied in Philadelphia This city was
the capital of the United States at
that time. One of the leading Phila-
delphia papers of that period was the
Aurora" Thomas Jefferson's personal
organ. James Wilson, being a printer,
obtained employment on the Aurora.
Also being hard working, thrifty
man he acquired ownership Of the pa
per and became intimately acquainted ed
with Jefferson.
But the rapidly growing West be-
gan to cast its spell over James Will
son and accordingly, in 1920 or there
abouts, he moved to Steubenville. Ohio,
where he founded the Western Herald.
He soon became power in the Demo
cratic party in Ohio and was known
throughout the state as Judge" Will
son.
1t was here, amid these surrounding $
of hardy and vigorous pioneer life, that
Joseph r. Wilson, the father of the
president-elect, was born and grew 20
manhood.
Joseph r. Wilson began his career
as a teacher, first in an academy, then
in jefferson College, then in Hamp-
den-Sydney College. His natural taste
however, was for the ministry, anu
after careful preparation he stepped
into the Presbyterian pulpit. About
this time he married Janet Woodrow,
daughter of a Presbyterian minister
at Chillicothe, Ohio. She has been
described as a remarkably pretty and
charming woman. She was born IN
Carlisle, England, but her father came
to America when she was but a few
years old.
Woodrow Wilson was born in Staun-
ton, Va, in 1856. 1t was during Christ
mas week, and the cheer of that occa-
sion has never left him. About two
years after woodrow Wilson's birth
his father accepted a call to the pas
torate of the Presbyterian church of
Augusta, Ga. This was at that time
Cne of the most influential congrega-
tions in the South, and the elder Will
son remained as it's pastor throughout
the Civil war. He was recognized as
one of the leading divines of the South.
Woodrow was only years old when
the war broke out, and as Augusta was
not the scene of any actual conflict
the boy knew little of what was going
on. He was also shielded from the
of the war, and grew up into manhood
unwarped by sectional hate.
The elder Wilson did not force the
education of his son. He took him on
journeys about the city, visiting fac