South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-11-28

TuT UUDPOW WILSON emerges ron the
w world war The worlds foremost states
man and ranking with washington ahd
llncoln among American presidents. Ihose
who believe that Divine Providence mas
beeo esoeeially mindful OF the welfare OF
the American republic-and that BELIEF IS
snbedded in the subconscious roots Of the
American character-will be entirely sure
that Overriding Power raised up woodrow
Wilson 20 lead and guide his people In a
great crisis OF their destiny as truly as
~ raised Up Washington 10 be maker or
the nation and Lincoln 70 be us preseFFeF
from disunion.
To the president Of the United States
has fallen the task OF yoicing the ideals
that lay behind the task Of ending the
menace OF military autOcracy embodied In
the Hun as no other statesman did or
could Broad minded as the European
Statesmen projected from the world-war
erucible have shown themselves In deal
Ing with the eternal verities Of civiliza-
lions crisis. they suffered from disabili-
ties for the task that Wilson has achieved
These disabilities we're not theT fault.
but their misfortune. They were the re-
suits OF centuries OF past history, which
made them unable % inspire the belief
an their national disintvrestedness which
the peculiar situation OF TIE United States
as we'll as the personal character OF its
president enabled him TO inspire.
- Formulated Peace Principles
Thus II was that Woodrow Wilson was
Enabled not so much 90 dictate as 10 for
mulate the principles upon which alone
peace could be made short OF the actual
~ subjugating invasion Of Germany. The
president OF the United States could speak
with freedom which no French or Brit
Ash. or Italian statesman could quite dare.
Jest some phrase be misconstrued by age
dong habits OF Interpretation and become
ehe seed OF friction between allies and
OF advantage to the Hun.
Even so practiCed q philosophic general
azer as Mr. Balfour was felt to have come
dangerously near 20 making trouble In his
statement concerning Britain's attitude
about the former German colonies. II re-
uuirCd Mr.. Wilson's prompt acceptance
Of a modification OF HE freedom or the
seas" principle 20 convince all that Eng
land was not thinking or more territory
for herself but only of sea safety against
a proved piratical power IN the refusal
even 20 consider any restoration OF colo
MES 10 Germany.
Next 10 Wilson the figure that excites
che most admiration In this country is that
u David Lloyd George. though Clemen-
ceau OF France appeals more TO our sense
OF the picturesque That old man with
his soul OF FIRE and brain Of chilled steel
delights us. though we can not so easily
understand the necessity Of him. knowing
as we do how patient and mistaken were
the masses Of the French people IN their
resolution never 20 yield TO the Hun Gle
snenceau's necessity doubtless arises IN the
technics OF French professional politics.
which al one time seem TO have become
dangerously permeated with 'defeatism -
the feeling. fostered hy corrupt intrigue
that real victory was impossible and that
German offers Of compromise might we'll
De entertained.
Lloyd George Understood
The career OF David Lloyd George. prime
minister Of Great Britain. and work horse
% the British government for ten years
mast. comes quite easily within the Amer
lean scheme OF things The lawyer VINO
early leaves his books and the contentious
Of the courts for those o. public lite IS one
Of our long familiar figures. We also
Know how the public man denounced as q
dangerous radical in one decade may pc
como an implicitly trusted national lead-
er in the next Americans yet live who can
remember when Abraham Lincoln was SO
denounced and by men who withln n''
years sent their sons 20 Gle az MS call.
pnd wept openly In the streets for him
when he died
Born in Manchester IN 1863. the son OF
a schooInas;zr. David LLOYD George be-
came solicitor az II. but SIX years later
made his advent IN public life as member
q the house or commons for Caru7rvon,
tn The laud 81 his Welsh forbears. and has