The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-10-15
eighteen MONTHS sof
WOODROW / WILSON.
He Has Made Remarkable Record in
Short He Has Been PRESIDENT Of
The United States.

The United States.
Has any body stopped to think
what type of man Woodrow Wilson
is? Has anybody seriously considered
the kind of administrative work he
has done and the kind oflegislative
work he has induced Congress to
do?
Did anybody ever hear of an
American President who, in so short
a time, has done so much to elicit
the confidence, the admiration and
the applause Of so many Of his coun-
trymen?
What he is to his country and
what his country is to him are evi-
denced in the kind of legislation he
has brought forward.
His currency law has the unqualifi-
ed 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 Progressives. It solved prob
lem that no other statesman dared
solve though Congress and commit
tees of Congresses, and leaders and
groups of leaders dallied with it and
lodged it for a generation.
His tariff superseded the most in
famous tariff in history. It received
Congressional support not only the
Democrat members. but of La
Toilette and many other Progress
i've Republicans. It was fought at
the time and is fought now only by
standpatters, 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.
4 The antitrust legislation, the
Chamberlain railroad bill Tor Alaska
| the income tax measure are others
Of a program to build up the coun-
try and free business and industry
from the autocracy of the trust.
] What President in Amaviean his
tory has done so much in SO brief a
time to plan for greater national
prosperity, prosperity to come with
exampled abundance as soon as
thre is time for adjustment and for
the handicap of a bloody European
war to pass away?
It is kind of legislation and a
quality of legislation never before
accomplished in so brief a time. 1t
is legislative achievement carrying
more relief and protection for the
people than any American President
ever secured in a whole term. 1t is
Legislation directed to human vel
fare and to wise obstructive adjust
ment Of the forces of national life
and business out of which to bring
the most prosperity to the most
of people It is an earnest of the
kind of things Woodrow Wilson will
to secure for his countrymen during
the remaining two and one-halt
years Of his term.
What Woodrow Wilson brings to
his contry is evidenced in the con
trast between the tranuality anc
peace at home and frightfull occur.
rences overseas Only yesterday
: there was clamer for Preside1
Wilson to lead the armies of the
: United States into Mexico. HI
was scourged and ridiculed and de
: nounced and excoriated for his re
fusal to do so. His policy was call
a grape juice policy" 1t was jeer
. ed at as a "spinless' policy. The,
> said it was foreign policy tina
made the United States the laugh
! ing stock of Europe. While in blood
dreanched Europe, women weel
and men die, while children call fo
sires who can never come back, ant
mothers pray for the salty of son
ID they will never more see, there
?, time for the Americans people t
in thank'Almighty God for a Presiden
e of peace, who pleads with the ne
It tions to sheath their swords and b
ts at war no more.-Portland Journa
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