The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-12-05

dition of the Standard, after devot'
ne several columns to thanking Coo
or Lloyd George and Clemenceau ant
'och and Pershing, and few Others
deserving of honorable mention" tn,
-ratitude of the editor reaches thu
limax in the following tribute Il
he man who kept US out of war;"
Thank God for Wilson. the
master spirit of the age! The
spokesman of the nations, he
spoke words that found an echo
in all hearts that love and cher
ish freedom; words that will not
cease to echo whenever men shall
speak OF liberty and justice, to the
end Of time. Too early yet 1t may
be to assign to Wilson his precise
place in the hall of fame. His
torians tell us that the perspect-
i've of at least a century is need
ed correctly to measure the statS
ure of any great man In its rela-
ton to others. Enough now to
note that not only have Wilson's
ideas been woven into the glori-
Gus fabric of American history and
American thought, but that his
deeds will be priceless heritage
to all posterity; that with the in
tellect to analyze, the patience to
consider, the wisdom to weigh,
the learning to illuminate and the
rhetoric to express; with ceaseless
devotion to the welfare of his
country and in a larger sense, OF
humanity with independence OF
opinions and iboldness in asserting
them at any hazard and against
all opposition; with unbounded
contempt for all lies and shams
and tricks and hypocrisies; re-
pudiating expediency as the guide
in life whether of individual or
nation, and falling back at every
turn of events on the principle of
right; with Hottest views of gov
eminent, Of law, of ethics, of
politics, and with ability to
enounce them in matchless Ian
guage; rivaling Washington in
his moral grandeur, Jefferson in
his respect for the popular judg-
ment and the popular will, Web
ster in his clarity and force of
expression, Blaine in the subtle
ty and sagacity of his statesman
ship, Sumner in the extent and
profundity of his scholarship,
Lincoln in his burning love for
humanity and passionate zeal to
elevate and shield it from all
harm--intrinsically Woodrow Will
son is, perhaps, the greatest AM
erican of them all; assuredly the
greatest when account is taken
of the magnitude of the tasks
committed to him. the gravity of
the responsibilities imposed up
on him, the vastness of his
achievements. and the sweep and :
scope and duration Of his in
fluenee.
THE memory of what this man
said and did during the progress
of the Great War will not pass
away until this republic shall be
utterly destroyed and the capitol
at Washington shall become
mass of broken and PROSTATE col
umns beneath the debris of ma
tons ruin. What Roscoe Conk-
ling said of the great Grant-and
how true to the letter it has al
ready come--may now be said
with equal justice of Wilson;
'vilhed and reviled, ruthlessly
aspersed by unnumbered presses,
not in other lands but in his own.
assaults upon him have only sea-
soned and strengthened his hold
on the public heart. Calumny's
ammunition has all been explod-
ed; the powder has all been burn
ed once; its force is spent: and
the name of Grant will glitter a
bright and imperishabe star In
the diadem of the republic when
those who have tried to tarnish
that name have moldered in for
gotten graves, and when their
memories and their epitaphs have
vanished utterly. y