Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1914-10-23
WOODSTOCK. VIRGINIA.
Eiqhteen Months Of Wilson.

Eighteen Months Ut wilson.
Has ANYBODY stopped to think
what type of man Woodrow
Wilson is !?
Has anybody seriously consid-
cred the kind of administrative
work he has done and the kind
of Legislative work he has Undue
ed Congress to do?
Did anybody ever hear OF an
American President who, in SO
short of time, has done so much
TO elicit the confidence, the adj
,niration and the applause OF so
many of his countrymen ?
What he is to his country and
what his country is to him are
evidenced in the kind of legisla-
ton he has brought forward.
His currency law has the I'M
qualified approval of all. 1t IS
so excellent in its provisions that
it received not only the support
of the Democrats in Congress !;
but of many Republicans and
Progressiyes. 1t solved a prob
EN- that no other statesman dar-
ed try to solve, though Congress
and committees of Congresses,
and leaders and groups of leaders
Jailed with it and lodged it for
generation.
His tariff superseded the most
Infamous tariff in history. 1t
received the Congressional sup
port not only Of the Democratic
members, but of La Toilette and
many other progressive Republ1-
cans. It was fought at the time
and is fought now only by stand
patters, cheap politicians and
unfair newspapers for political
purposes. The vote of such a
statesman as La Toilette for the
present tariff shows the country
what kind of men its critics are.
The antitrust legislation, the
Cham erlain railroad bill for
Alaska, the income tax measure
are others of a program to build
up the country and free business
and industry from the autocracy
of the trusts. What President
in American history has done SO
much in so brief a time to plan
for a greater national prosperity,
a prosperity to come with unex-
ampled abundance as soon as
there is time for adjustment and
for the handicaps of bloody
European war to pass away
1t is kind of legislation ard
a quantity of legislation never
before accomplished IN so brief a
time. It is legislative achieve
ment carrying more relief and
protection for the people than
any American President ever Sc
cured in a whole term. 1t is leg
islation directed to human well
fare and to wise constructive
adjustment of the forces of ma
tional life and business out of
which to bring the most pros
perity to the most people. 1t is
an earnest of the kind of things
Woodrow Wilson will try to Sc
cure for his countrymen during
the remaining two and one-half
years of his term.
What Woodrow Wilson brings
to his country is evidenced in the
contrast between the tranquility
and peace at home and the fright
full occurrences overseas. Only
the other day there was clalnor
for President Wilson to lead TIE
armies of the United States into
Mexico. He was scourged and
ridiculed and denounced and ex-
coriated for his refusal to do SO. |
His policy was called grape
juice policy" It was jeered at
as a ''spineless" policy. They
said it was foreign policy that
made the United States the
Laughing stock of Europe"
While in blood-drenched Eur
rope, women weep and men die,
while children call for Sires WHO
can never come back, and moth
ers pray for the safety of sons
they will never more see, there
IS time for the American people K
20 thank Almighty God for a II
of peace, who pleads Ii
With the nations to sheath tleirl
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