Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-04-16
MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1917.
TEXAS AT TIE HELM.
(San Antonio Explress.)

Modestly, Texas can afford TO draw just
now a deep breath of patriotic satisfaction
in the work her sons nave been doing in
flinging forth to the world the dauntless,
spotless banners of Americanism. They
have proved, at a time when all the world
was watching, that the spirit of &c still
gloriously compeis these United States of
America to take the path of honor and To
unsheathe the cleaning blade of Liberty.
True TO Texas blood and Texas traditions,
TO Texas AmericaniSm, they nave helped
to shape the course of the worlds greatest
republic in her greatest crisis.
The world reads that in all his "silent
meditation of the terrible questions of war
with the most perfect war machine, "a rep
resented by a foreign nation, that history
records, and the problems of how to bring
preparedness out of a country totally un-
prepared, the presidents only counsellor
and visitor, was Colonel +. NJ. House, the
silent man, "the man of mystery" from
Austin, who has been for four years the
chief ..nnoftlcial adviser" Of President Viii
son, as the press of the country halls him.
He was in the chief executives study, he
accompanied the president on his walks
and the only one who rode back TO the
White House with him hat night after his
worid-stirring address TO both houses of
congress was the man from Texas.
1t will be remembered that two years
ago Colonel House was commissioned by
the president 10 visit the crowned heads
of the central powers and the governments
of France and England, on a journey the
object of which has never been divulged
beyond the statement that he returned with
Invaluable information sought by the ad-
ministration.r And now Washington dis
patches announce that il j. practically
certain the chairman of the American com
mission which will be sent Immediately to
sit in the war councils at Paris and Lon
don, will be Colonel House.
The cabinet, a the country knows. has
in the postmaster general a Texan born
and bred; and a former president Of the
University of Texas in the person of the
secretary of agriculture. The attorney
general is a Texan, also an Austinite, and
texans are high, in other positionos, in
the councils of the nation. The Texas
point of view, it cannot be doubted, has
had a considerable share in the shaping Of
the country's policies; how much, history
will disclose in the chronicling of the great
panproma of activity now opening with
our entry on the worlds war stage. a.
General Pershing said here in San Antonio
the other day, mt a patriotic gathering, the
president has had 10 deal with problems
50 delicate and grave, 80 filled with peril
spiritually and physically, to the nation
that, when the clouds roll away, the Amer
lean people will be amazed. OF thes,
things we are ignorant as yet. Much ha,
beer withheld for reasons Of world policy
But we do know this from our faitl
in the citizenship Of our state-a stat.
that has nailed its lone star To the span.
gied field of the union by sheer, downright
VICTORIOUS Americanism-that the countr,
cannot go wrong in the sight of God ol
man when there is such a leader as Wood.
row Wilson, surrounded by Americans OF
the Texas steel of patriotism, a steel thai
has been forged in the fires Of sacrifice
not once but many times; II steel that ring,
true today and always will.