Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1917-04-21

President Wilson's address to the
nation was issued last Sunday, the
fifty-second anniversary OF the saddest
day in American history-the day on
which Lincoln died in the cause OF
universal liberty. 1t was an appeal
TO the people, who will respond to hm
"a their fathers responded to Lncolns
call
Washington, Lincoln and Mckin
ley were neither miitants or imperial
lists. Each believed in peace and like
Grant were ready to fight and die for
peace.
So Wilson stands today the choice
of free and intelligent people, who
daily grow more intelligent and more
peaceful.
When first elected Wilson was as
much the choice of the people as if
the 100000 votes necessary to give
him majority had been cast for him.
1t constituted majority under the
constitution, and no sophistry can es-
tablish the fact that he was not the
choice OF the people.
His calm patience and answering
courage proved that the judgment of
the people did not err when they Sc
lected him as the head Of the great
est government ever established by
man. His impervious calmness and
steady purpose carried him through
similar trials that Lincoln passed.
Had Wilson been ambitious for
power or weak in spirit he never could
have carried the country through the
perils that threatened when >he as
sumed the reins OF government.
The majority that selected him the
second time did so, because, despite
partisan prejudice, passion and cal
umny as to his being weak and lack
ing courage, the people believed in the
man When he appealed to them
though their congress to trust in his
honor and patriotism and repeal the
canal tolls bill because OF the grave
and critical complications which
threatened and which he could not
disclose, the people though their rep
resentatives in Congre led by mer
among his partisan opponents. mer
like Elihu Root and Henry Cabot
Lodge. rose to the occasion and suS
tanned him. The nation now stand,
by Pesident Wilson as it stands by
the principles for which the best blood
OF the country has been shed.
He asks the newspapers to help him
as he asks the people to support him
and the response is universal.
He appeals to the patriotism, and
his plea appeals to that class who
though simple and humble. are the
real aristocrats OF the earth for they
endure forever the class that will
ever live and prosper while the plu-
tocrat dies and is forgotten. "The
Man With the Hoe" is a false parable
lie has not 'toiled like the unthinlinp
OK" and he does not He has fur
nished "the brains of the world" and
he will continue to do so.
The classes that Wilson makes hi
strongest appeal to are the real arts.
tocats of the world. They are the
farmer and the man who labors and
thinks. The story OF Cincinnatus is
:old more frequently than any great
epic in prose with the one exception
Of the Sermon on the Mount" Gin,
cinnatus left his pillow TO serve his
people and when the laurels of victory
were preferred him he returned TO his
plow.
No man has greater knowledge o.
am@airs than our President
The man who knows danger and
does not falter is the man who wins
Victory to save and not to conquer
is the principle upon which this gov
eminent stands.
Wilson stands for this principle
and for that reason today stands FIRST
an the hearts of his countrymen.'