The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-06-18
Woodrow Wilson'S Leadership.

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he would nave been a better presiden
than Woodrow Wilson. says the New
York World. None Of the presidenti
critics. including Mr.. Hughes, has
yet undertaken that task. Nor dc
we think that Mr.. Hughes, with al
the advantages that come from re
building history in imagination ana
getting rich out Of yesterdays STOCK
market, viii venture to submit bill
OF particulars to prove that in the
midst of the world disaster OF modern
civilization he would have been a wis
er and an ADLER leader of democra
cy than the president has been.
The American people owe their
peace and prosperity to Woodrow vii
son. and they owe TO him the most
important program of progressive
domestic legislation ever enacted by
single administration since Wash
ington's. He has taken plutocracy
and privilege out of popular govern
ment and put the Republic back on
the democratic track. They are fur
Their indebted to him for the most
comprehensive measures of national
defense ever undertaken in time of
measures that bid fair to solve
the perplexing problemn of armlng a
democracy and still holding it fast
to the best traditions of democra-
cy.
His leadership has made the coun-
try ready to face the new problem,
that a world war has imposed upon
mankind. He has pointed the way
to new peace OF the nations by
which the weak can be protected
against the strong. and the security
of each guaranteed by the strength
of all. American democracy cannot
repudiate him without repudiating its
highest ideals and aspirations.
We should not dream of paying
the president the silly compliment OF
saying that he had made no mis-
atkes. Like all other human beings.
he has committed faults of reason
ing and faults of judgment. but his
as whole has moved
ever forward, ever in the right direc-
ton, ever in the pathway of true
Americanism and true democracy Its
impulses have been the right inn
pulses, its motives the right motives,
its principles, the right principles.
No other country In the world
would dream al time like this of driv-
Ing tried leader like Woodrow VIII
son out Of office to make an expert
ment. No other country in the world
would hold its peace and welfare
In such a light esteem that ii would
care TO take chances and substitute
the unknown for the known.
Mr., Wilson has given TO the Amer
lean people the one truly progressive
administration that they have had
since liberty and union overcame
slavery and secession. only to sink
into the quicksands of plutoeracy and
reaction. Whatever the outcome of
the election may be. his place in his.
tory is fixed. He will rank not only
among the great presidents of the
United States, but among the great
leaders of democracy for all time.
1t is not MIR Wilson who is on trial
in this campaign, but the American
people their solidarity of citizenship
their seriousness OF purpose. their un.
Outstanding of the crises through
which they have passed and the grave
questions that they face. their com
p:ehension Of the part that this coun-
try should play in the restoration of
peace, and their appreciation Of the
Influence that American democracy
should exert upon the future of ciyili-
cation,
The one question to be decided at
The polls Is whether In the face of
this record the American people are
SO frivolous and so unstable that they
are ready to gamble with destiny
and rccklessly risk the future for
the excitement OF changing the ad
ministration of their government in
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