The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-11-14

ING rooms Of the white house, which
Wih assail him during all his waking
U and pursue him in his sleep
AND dreams. morning. noon and night.
never escape from the NEAR and sor.
ulo ana orazen In the rank ignominy
Of self-seeking.
Determination Essential.
He who does not stand like a statue
OF wrought iron. with mo" constants
~ upon his lips. who does not bare
MS bosom to the storm. knowing in
VIA Of obliquy and abuse
betide. might easily break his heart
before the arrival Of a congress bound
still further to test his manhood and
try his soul.
Leadership implies self-conadence.
d%oninancy. and will power. Mr..
Cleveland had plenty of these. But
he lacked the fullness of knowledge
which M from lifelong intellectual
habitudes and the definite purpose
which takes its cue from special study
and original research.
He got his political economy by alb.
sorption and at second hand. He pos
sessed strong natural gifts: within
the reach of his mental vision no
ma nsaw clearer: within his com
potency no man governed wiser or
truer. He was obstinate, however.
rather than firm: not at all
full in dealing with men. and temper
amentally tactless. likely to grow inn
patient under stress of circumstances.
Thus he wrecked his party, wrecked
1t after it had reached what seemed
a safe harbor and left it a very hulk
upon the wide. wide sea.
Woodrow Wilson to the head
Of affairs a full grown man. He is
mature in all his powers. For good
or Ill. his character is ripened and
all his own. Sprung from, a a
of scholars and thinkers, he has
from his cradle played with books,
devoured them. written them, a pub
licist learned in the schools; a politi-
clan. astute, acute. and up to date;
Ia popular speaker of the modern
type. at once effective and attractive.
splendent, the pitfalls many and
deep.
Congress Presents Problem.
What he will do with congress re-
mains to be seen. What congress
will do to him remains to be seen.
Democracy needs a Jefferson to in
itiate. a jackson to execute. How
many Of the swan n Of h cam
paign can be translated into statute
law: What rival ambitions may take
the field at frst under n then
in the open to confuse and thwart hi.
highest aims? Shall he find a Rem
tonian tower of strength in the sem
ate. as Jackson did? Shall he be able
to organize a group in the house such
as held up the hands of Jackson. With
men like James X. Polk and Franklin
Pierce and James Buchanan, Andrew
Stevenson. and Richard NJ. johnson
in the lead? Shall he prove himself
another Old Hickory?
Time alOno will fell uS. HE nonof.
nation and election look very like a
need a schoolmaster: they need an
academician; they need one who
knows and can discriminate: who
sees and can do; who is honest and
not afraid. Roosevelt had some
great qualities. No doubt of that.
But Roosevelt is yet a boy. He is. a
boy crazy after a birds nest it is no
good for him to have. Events will
show us what Wilson is.
Meanwhile the republican party 10
dead. Its leaders. with Taft at their
head. may not think so; but it is as
dead as a door nail. AS the institution
cratic party has the protective tariff
system killed the modern republican
party.
Like slavery, protection laid in false
economic theories is u%ntenable. It has
outstayed its welcome. The American
manufacturer will find protection a
Chinese wall, as the southern planter
found slave labor q broken, reed. The
vast income required by the govern
ment to be got through the custom
houses will. upon a fairly adjusted
revenue tariff, furnish the manufac-
turers all h protection they could ask