The Hattiesburg news., 1915-10-12
OUR PRESIDENT.
(From Life.)

| ~ hdppeHeu ny SOME Qua cOncdte
nation of circumstances that the re
Gently arrived Englishmen, the High
brow Republican, and the Ordinary
Citizen were thrown together in an
idle hour in a corner Of the club
room.
And they fell to discussing Presi-
| dent Wilson. The Englishman was
an Oxford man, familiar with Bryce's
American Commonwealth" and De
| Toqueville. He had visited in Brook
| lyn, Chicago and had stopped three
days at the Palace Hotel San Fran
cisco.
Il feel rawther timid about express
sing an opinion of your President" Z"
he began, Test might not be decent
about it; but if you don't mind. I'd
like to say this: In the first place,
he strikes me as being raw ther fine
sort; of course, his scholarship is i'm
mensely interesting to us, being such
rare thing among your statesmen,
but l really believe he is in earnest;
yet would you mind my saying, you
know, there is something more cruue
about him, even more so than your
rougher men? He impresses me, with
all his austerity, as being deliciously
simple. What is that you Americans
say? One may put it over on him.
1t is extraordinary that he should have
done such-well, shall l say raw
things?-with so much naivete."
Pardon me-" said the Ordinary
Citizen, 'but what things?"
The Highbrow Republican by this
time was almost bursting with his
emotions.
Il can tell you," he began impulsive-
ly, and then, his manners coming to
the surface-not having far to go,
perhaps-he gestured toward the Eng.
lishmanlishman apologetically. "Pro-
|ceed," he said. "It's extremely inter-
testing to get your view"
why" continued the Englishman,
half struggling his shoulders, could
one imagine anything more ridiculous
ly-er-puerile-infantile is better
than President Wilson's Mexican pol
icy? notice you Americans lay a
lot of it to Bryan. Still one must he
lieve that President Wilson has in
telhgence enough to control his own
policy-not to recognize Huerta! And
on the plea that some sort of vague
crime has been ommitted-really. all
that sort of thing is extraordinary,
and hard for a student of history to
grasp. l was interested in looking
over some of your Presidents books.
They are extremely well written, but
the man has no-no-"
World insight" suggested the men.
tally surging Highbrow Republican.
Precisely" continued the English
man. There is no orientation to him.
His note to Germany, for example,
where he says to Berlin that he should
be loath to believe that Germany, as
ner history shows, could be actuated
by anything but humane motives
Something like that! Imagine! AS If
history showed, that Germany had
been anything but a. beast! Gentle.
men, cannot but feel that your Pres
ident has missed great opportunity"
The Highbrow Republican now be-
gan.
THAT hardly expresses it." he said.
THE fact is that President Wilson is
tremendously overrated because he is
able to express himself in felicitous
language. My dear sir, what you say
about his lack OF world insight is ad-
mirably put and shows complete
understanding of his limitations. He
is really small man in large place
at a critical time with a facility of
expression that has misled many.
Think, as you say, of what an i'm
mense opportunity he has missed IL
in the beginning he had made Wig
orous protest against the violation of
Belgium's netrality and had probably