The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-27
WILSON OFFERS
 REAL REMEDIES
He Has Laid Bare Source Of
 nati0n's Troubles.
RESENTS SLUR AT TEACHERS.

RESENTS SLUR AT TEACHERS, President of the University of NortI,
 Carolina Calls Attention to Services
 Other Educators Have Rendered to
 the RepubIie-Opposition to Governor
 WiIson Comes From the Privileged
 lnterssts.
 By pr. FRANCIS P. vENAsLE, President of the University of North
 Carolina.
 Some of the politicians have contemp- tuously dismissed Woodrow Wilson's claims as statesman and candidate for the highest office in the gift of his party by speaking of him as "only a schoolteacher."
 There are several hundred thousands of teachers in the country, and many of us are proud of the name We resent the sneering use of 1t with the implica- ton that because we are teachers we | feel called upon to debate this point nor think that it is at all necessary The fling is an altogether unworthy one and shows a regrettable ignorance of the service rendered by teachers in the building of the nation and the part they have played as leaders.
 Can we forget the part played by John Witherspoon, another president of Princeton, in securing the 1ndepend ence of our country and in safely launching the young republic, and that q college president, James A. Garfield, was later on president of this republic when 1t had become the mightiest na- ton on earth, and that Robert B. Lee thought it no lowering of his dignity nor lesser service to end his life as a college president?
 Has Not Lost Hope.
 Now, am not writing as teacher or college president, but as a citizen, one who has for years thought over the problems which confront us in this great democratic experiment among the nations; one who has been perplexed and fearful of disaster, seeing slight hope in the various expedients which the years have brought forth and f1nd- ing small comfort in the leaders pro- duced, yet not losing hope It has been the passion of my life to labor for the uplift of my people.
 Tn Woodrow Wilson find . man who has analysed the situation as only ty&H dn 4o h0 q ed to the very center of things as with . surgeons knife and laid bare the source of the trouble. know of no other man who has done this or shown the capacity to do 1t. I know that this Is the first and absolutely essential step in the eradication of disease.
 Furthermore, he is a resourceful man and not without remedy. If this Is a government by the people then in some way the people must be got to exercise this right of ruling. Knowing that many are ignorant, many weak, many vicious, I realize that this does not mean the immediate ushering in of the millennium, but there is no other hope for Democracy.
 I know Governor Wilson to be an honest and fearless man, who, seeing the right, will drive straightly to it without fear or swerving; that he is foe to all wrong and untruth and in- Justice and under no bond to any man nor group of men.
 I know him as a strong man, who has won decisive victories for the right, relying on himself, the justice of his cause and direct appeal to the people.
 I know him as one whose whole life has been searched by those who would do him harm and no fault found that would stamp him as untrue or un- worthy.
 Reasons For Opposition.
 I know him as one bitterly opposed by the seekers for office, the nonpro- gressives, the privileged interests. These are opposed to him because they believe him to be the man have de scribed and hold him dangerous where I see in him the hope of the coming of q better day. Of course do not class with them others who for different reasons find they cannot favor him.
 That 1t is said that he cannot carry this state or that state because of the overwhelming opposition of the privi- leged interests is no reason for turning from him. We dare not bow to such dictation. The people must arise in their might and enforce their will or there is no hope anywhere of relief.
 These are the reasons why I favor Woodrow Wilson for president of the