The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-03-13
FROM THE OLD 10 THE NEW

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administration, the 4th, which is
we'll worth reading:
"A new era starts with today.
With the Inauguration of Woodrow
Wilson as President of the United
States, this nation experiences new
birth of freedom. The people have
right to expect, and do expect, a
new order of things-that the Oft
repeated question. Shall the peo-
pie ruIe?" will be answered in the
affirmative. They believe that
Woodrow Wilson will prove equal
to the task he laid out for himself
when he said that the government
must be carried back to the people.
"Never has a President, since
Washington, entered upon his duties
with more we'll Wishers than Wood
row Wilson. Never has there been
more expected of President than
is expected of him. And he enters
the office with the full confidence of
the masses OF the people who are
his friends, and have put him where
he is. He also has the highest re-
spect of his enemies. Those who
refuse to admit that he will be able
to accomplish the reforms he has
set lis hand to, do ADMIT that he is
a man OF remarkable ability in af-
fairs of government, and that he
unquestionably knows what ought
to be done.
In the hearts of the masses of
the people-the toiling millions, the
ninety and nine-Woodrow Wilson
is enshrined as a chieftain, as a
great leader in trying time. They
want a change, they know that
something must be done with or to
or through the government to make
life in this great nation of ours more
tolerable and to destroy something
Of the hard grind that has become
necessary in the making of living.
The bald fact stares them in the
face, that all the wealth has drifted
into the hands of a few, while the
many live but poorly at best. They
know that every time their wages
are increased the cost of living
mounds higher, and the last state is
worse than the first. They are not
satisfie>' and are clamoring for some
thing to be done.
"What to do, they do not know.
And it is here that Woodrow Wilson
enters their thoughts. Because they
believed that he knew what to do,
they forced his nomination at BaIti-
more, and thene elected him Presi-
dent. What will Woodrow Wilson
do? None doubt that he will do
his best, that he will do all in his
power to carry out the promises he
has made. What can he do? That
is the question.
That he has ',ard task before
him, none realizes, we believe, quite
so we'll as Woodrow Wilson himself.
Every public utterance of his since
his. election clearly demonstrates
that he is amply cognizant of the
task. He is most able and wholly
fearless man. He is highly educated
in the highest affairs. He is capable
of performing a mans job. He has
proved to the world that he is a
fighter OF the first order. He will
take hold of the reins with firm
hand and if they do not break We
have full confidence in his faculties
to believe that they will guide him
safely to his journeys end.
His greatest handicap will! be the
old-line party boss. Wilson mates
bosses, and the fate of Jim Smith in
New Jersey ought to- teach the
larger bosses that he does not hate
in vain. He ought to be able to
dispose of the boss element within
a few months, so that the way will
be cleared for action along the lines
he wishes to proceed. We believe
that he will succeed.
There are just four great enter
prises of reform to " hich he will set
his hand. He will reform the tariff
first. The success of his other re-
forms in largest part depends on
how we'll he gets along with the
tariff. If he succeeds as he desires
with the tariff reform, he will have
little trouble in getting what he
wants in the way of currency re-
form in strengthening the Sherman
antitrust law and in putting his ideas
on the conservation question into
law.
Nobody expects Wilson to do any,
thing extremely radical or new; all
that is expected of him is that he
will be able to restore the govern
ment to its old-time state-to take
the nation back and give it a new
start at least very close to the point
where it began, with equality and