French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-06-29
WILSON IN ACTION.

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ordering out the State National Guard,
OF militia" of every State, to assist
in meeting the threatened crisis of
the Mexican situation, shows how
prompt and u an official of the
Wilson temperament can be depended
Upon to act when the real time for &C
ton presents itself. He is as sure as
he is safe-as the head of the Army
end Navy, whose "Commander-in-
CHIEF he is-as we'll as the head Of
our civil government. Like old wine.
he improves with age, too, which Of
course is largely due to that expert
ence which rounds out the life of a
great Office where he hourly faces and
must meet and dispose of great issues
and questions and developments, and
where he is daily tried by multiplicity
OF tests for the metal that is in him.
Woodrow Wilson has passed
through these years of such exactions
as few Presidents have been subject
ed to-. He has been tried by fire and
food and been given the acid test
and in every instance of Importance he
has rung true and clear in concep-
ton of duty to his country and people
and with an ear atuned to the will
and commands Of the Almighty.
A God-serving and G~od-fearinF
President, a believer in the infinite
wisdom of the Creator. the Great Ar
ichitect. the AllSeeing Eye that wit
rises all our thoughts as we'll as &C
tons, and in the Great Spirit to whom
omnipotence and goodness and mercy
we are privileged always and every
where to appeal-yet, he "keeps his
powder dry while his applications
ascend to the great white Throne,
even as Stonewall Jackson did on the
eve of his great battles with the
enemy.
The Masters ruling may not sustain
u appeal every time, but by His de-
cision in the Upper Court we "a
hardly lose a case in which we have
Irayerfully taken such pains to be
lenient and me- iful. and even indul-
gent as has the Wilson administra-
ton, in the controversy with Mexico
a quarrel which has developed from
en initial purpose to be helpful and
only helpful to a badly distracted
country and people.
The FibaI Arbiter, We trust, will
decree a settlement that will be per-
1aanent and irrevocably against furth
CT murderous raids by the Mexicans
into this country, n with the loss of
as few lives as possible.
Unlike the Kaiser Wilhelm, we are
regarding the Almighty as a side
Lartner; WE have small conception Of
the personality of a Deity to whom he
is credited with relying upon as an
ecual-'Me and Gott"-but it is to the
Father of heaven and earth and all
in them is, that we believe in and
are counting on. Our God uses hu-
Iucu luSII uuSLLdIlIleS 10 WOFk out ire
Gestinies of nations, at times-just as
does with some Of those all around
every day of our lives in individ-
pal influence and effect upon individ-
raj men and WOmen and the Hustler
and Democrat is not exaggerating I!
the promise, visible to SO manv
tt oughtful people today, when it says
we expect to see during tho
term of Woodrow Wilson as
President of the United States world
vide opportunities presented to him
which only a great and true man can
successfully meet-questiOns upon
whose decisions the fate of nations
end the betterment of unborn enera
tons on two continents will largely
rest, and we believe implicitly tina:
TO man in North America. from Mr..
Jefferson's time to the present day.
Or would have been better equip
bed to meet them-with such com
rlanding intellectual vision of the sit
uation and conscientious conception OF
the duty of a Christian statesman al
the head of a Christian Nation.
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