New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-03

only IN spite of huge artificial difficulties.
and the most enterprising people in the
world have forfeited their initiative In for
egn markets by deliberately giving up the
carving trade Of the world. We shall grew
rich some day when we really learn how,
when we cease preying upon our own peo-
pie by putting them I'm a dollhouse, where
! they sweat as much az they proht. and
! turn our eyes TO genuine enterprise ana
free effort again throughout the world
judging from his past conduct Mr.. Will
son, If chosen President, will depend large
~ upon publicity for aid in helping him
solve the public problems Of the day.
There IS. OF course, no single sovereign
remedy for anything" he once declared.
but publicity certainly acts upon crooked
projects Ike the fresh and open air upon
tuberculosis. 1t is great antiseptic against
the germs Of some of the worst political
methods Government that is kept con-
stanty in the open Is very apt to be honest
and healthy government"
Mr. Wilson is Virginian by birth. His
father. the Rev. Joseph Rugglss Wilson,
moved to Georgia in 1855 when the boy
was two years old. He also preached In
various churches in North and South Car
DINA while his son was growing up.
The young man entered Davidson College
at the age Of seventeen and remained there
two years. Then he entered Princeton,
from which he was graduated in 1879.
After his graduation he studied law In
the University Of Virginia, receiving tho
degree Of Bachelor of Law in 1882 He re-
ceived the degree OF Bachelor Of Philosophy
from Johns Hopkins University In 1886. that
.of Doctor Of Laws from Wake Forest Uni
ycrsIty. North Carolina, in 1887, and that OF
Doctor Of Literature from Yale University
AT its bicentennial celebration.
Professor Wilson occupied the position Of
adjunct professor OF history I'm Bryn Mawr
College and was afterward professor OF
history and political economy in Wesleyan
3 University. In 1880 h. became professor Of
Jurisprudence and political economy at
Princeton IN 1898 the title OF his chair was
changed to that OF professor OF Jurispru-
d idence, and upon It's endowment he became
Mccormick professor Of Jurisprudence and
politics Professor Wilson also for q num-
Der OF years gave d course Of lectures in
Johns Hopkins University.
He obtained celebrity as a lecturer and
writer. His work entitled THE State" and
his Life OF George Washington" are
among his best known writings. Professor
Wilson became the thirteenth I'm the roll OF
presidents at Princeton in 1892. and the first
layman to hold this office, all his predeces
sors having been Presbyterian clergymen.
lie ls however, a ruling 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 years
of service as an educator, resigned the pres
idency OF Princeton I'm 1910 TO accept from
OK Senator Smith and his followers the
nomination for Governor Of New Jersey
there was a general tendency to look
askance at the "schoolmaster In politics"
, However, he was carried into office on the
radical anti Republican wave that swept
80 many states. His first act WAS to an
tagonize the forces that supported him.
Ex-senator Smith asked him TO help him
remove the EEK" from his title Wilson
= / untly refused to interfere In any way
with the choice of the primaries. and go
James T.. MARITIME assumed the toga in
stead No sooner had the Governor won
the approval of the radicals by furthering
than he began to lose II again by his pro-
longed absences from Trenton In his long
campaign for the Presidential nomination.
The Bryan following. which had been ia
yoraby inclined toward Governor Wilson,
was startled by the publication Of the ia
nous cooked hat" letter Colonel Harvey
eaye him enthusiastic support IN "1Iar-
per's Weekly" till the Governor bluntly
ted him to deslst For this Colonel Wat
terson bitterly attacked him. He had
sought Carnegie teachers pension after
deciding to abandon the profession for poll
tics all unconscious OF the capital political
enemies might make OF It. He has also
} been forced to spend much time trying TO
explain some derogatory statements he
has made In his books regarding immi-
grants from Southern Europe. statements
made before the writer sought the votes OF
naturalIzed aliens.
Altogether he sprnkled his path to the
Presidency with many large-sized thorns.