The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-02-19
BYE NYE's SPIRIT ABROAD


san and the unpatriotic foes of the
administration are at it again. They
have pulled new one" They have
discovered that Wilson is impractical.
This joke is only relatively new. like
certain late photos of Great Shoshone
falls; to be precise it was discovered
when Woodrow Wilson as president of
Princeton university started out to
democratize that institution and abol-
ish snobocracy among the students.
The sons of lot of our best people
found out what was the matter with
him-he was impractical Still, he
won the fight.
Then when he was nominated for
governor of New Jersey, his oppo-
nents learned of the discovery of the
college boys, and not realizing that it
was a joke, tried to String" the vot-
ers with it, but it did not work. The
laugh was on them.
Then Jim Mcpherson, the old Dem
ocratic state boss, thinking the gov
ernor was mot onto the ropes" came
to the state house to put him wise"
and get his support for a senatorship
and when the new governor refused to
be informed. said he would get the
senatorship anyhow Since which
time Jim has been neither senator nor
boss so as anyone could notice"
de old gang" among the New Jer-
sey Democrats got busy and joined the
Republicans to fight the antitrust
laws known as the Seven Sisters"
They were joined by old-time trust
politicians who knew all the ropes
and would show this impractical
dreamer" some things. But some way
they got tangled in the ropes, which
hanged the whole bunch of them and
the Seven Sisters" made their debut
in the legal exclusive set of Mosquito
State"
The trust men who wanted to fl
nance Woodrow's presidential boom in
1912, thought him an awful bonehead
when he rejected their support, and
Colonel Harvey, who preached pro-
trust doctrine was sure that the fool
ish man was headed for detruction
when he told Harvey plainly that such
support was hurting him-but we all
know the result.
e. al,
sure it could steal congress right un-
der his eyes when the Democrats
came into power and the national
trusts planned to put him on the
blink" The greatest financial panic
in history was threatened by some fl
nanciers if the Wilson policies were
persisted in, but the dreamer" haC
selected a secretary of treasury WHIT
knew how to render such threat harm
less. The greatest program of con
structiye legislation ever enacted il
the same length of time was pu
through, and so obviously under tn
leadership of this impractical school
master that they called him cza
when they tried to defeat him in l91
an effort so futile, and so recen
that its ludicrous features need nc
be adverted to.
The wise" German diplomats trie
to stir up a combination of nation
against us and what became of the
efforts is history.
And yet the folks who are trying
convince the people that PresideI
Wilson is an impracticable idealis
never let up. They are quite unawai
of their own asininity; still less al
they aware of the fact that the peop
are "onto" such asininity. The recel
attempt to play politics through g
unwarranted attack on the war d
partment by men who assured Il
public, in effect. that President wi
son meant we'll but didn't kno
nawthin'," is a fair sample.
Now the Herald-Republican and t
Statesman and other organs of L
seekers after special privileges, a
taking up the old cry, with referen
to the international policies of Pres
dent Wilson, after entente statesm
have so far recognized the superi
acumen and diplomatic skill of o
chief executive as to make him the
spokesman. These critical reache
after personal advantage in derog
ton of common right do not want t
presidential policies adopted intern
tionally, any more than they wa
them at home. And having no arg