Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-12-12
COUNTRY HAS
FAITH IN WILSON
Sam Blythe Sounds Public
Sentiment in Trip Across
the Continent
ADMIRATION UNIVERSAL
His Power Of Intellect, Hon
esty and Good Judgment
Popularity Recognized

Recently I came across the cont
nent from west to east, stopping along
the route from San Francisco to Bos-
ton, and asked the people-not the pol
iticians-what they thought of Mr..
Wilson. l found an almost universal
regard for him, and almost universal
admiration for him, an almost univer
sal support for him, based on the con-
crete popular recognition of his hon
esty of purpose, his power of intellect,
his lack of ostentation, his good judg-
ment, and his evident determination to
carry out the policies he has laid down
as essential to the we'll being of the
he has shown for taking the initiative.
The people, as whole. are for Mr..
Wilson. They have watched him care
fully and have faith in his sincerity,
and are particularly pleased with his
mastery of his difficult situation. The
people like a man who dominates.
They want to be governed.
They find that Mr.. Wilson is really
president. with no delegation of au
thority whatsoever; and they like that
and like him-and are frank to say
so
1t is true found opposition to the
tariff program of Mr.. Wilson, but no,
so much as I had expected. This
country has been on high protective
basis for many years, has been organ
ized along those lines; but, outside
of the irreconciliable, standpat rem.
nants of the old republican party,
there was an evident and cheerful dis
position to try out reduction of the
tariff and see what the effect would
be. I found that nobody, except a
few Old Guard instances, had many
apprehensions of what would happen;
and all were severely conscious of
the fact that if this revision fails to
be satisfactory it is the easiest thing
in the world to revise.
The general disposition was this
The people elected Mr.. Wilson and a
democratic senate and house, with full
knowledge that the tariff would be
revised and revised downward There
were no popular delusions about that.
Now, since the democrats have revis-
ed the tariff according to their lights
and in measure at least, as direct
ed by the people, the people them
- Cause for complaint
and should accept the result as their
own doing, and wait for the outcome.
If the tariff program of the demo-
Gratis fails to work out in practical
and helpful manner there is no doubt
as to what will happen at the first
general election. where the people
have chance to express themselvs.
The democrats will be retired-that
tariff has had chance, the great
bulk of the people are calmly philo-
sophical about it all, and it is as hard
to stir interest in the subject as it
would be to revive Knownothingism.
We have had tariff dinged at us for
several years. The popular attitude
is: For heavens sake. drop it! Give
us chance to see how it works! For
get it, and let us go about our bust
ness
So far as the tariff and Mr.. Will
sons linked fortunes are considered,
the general feeling is optimistic. Your
American is good sportsman. as a
whole. and he is willing to take a
chance. If it comes right. hurrah for
Wilson! If it comes wrong, hurrah
for somebody else.
OF course | met many discouraged
standpatters who were full of fore
bodings and who scattered prophecies
of ruiS; but the bulk of the people
have no fears and have many hopes
They are with Wilson.-Sam Blyth in
the Saturday Evening Post