The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-15
A Volume OF Wilson and It's Eject
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81 worthy publishing house Of Chi
s1cago, hitherto best known in literary
circles as the purveyors Of that admi-
rable volume "Blll Nye's Comic His
tory Of the United States" has taken
a step and issued a book entitled
President Wilson's Great Speeches
and Other History Making Docu-
ments." On the paper jacket of this
addition to the groaning shelf Of Will
soniana is what was anciently known
has an advertisement and is now quite
generally styled blurb. The blurb
is almost always an interesting, If
mot an integral, part Of the modern
book. 1t is usually a frank effort on
the part of the publisher to he init
mate with the prospective reader, and
the blurb Of the present book is no
exception. for it says, in part:
president WILSON talks to you IN
2 this book and he reveals to you his
thoughts in All intensely interesting
the addresses and speeches OF Presi-
dent WILSON shall live"
"a A little, journey through the inside
biof the book leads the examiner tU
sowonder just what effect its perusal
- would have on a visitor fresh from
;, the interior of Tibet who, though
he understood the English language,
was unfamiliar with Mr.. WILSON and
his attitudes during the last six or
seven years toward American affairs.
: For this volume, unlike most of the
volumes OF the Presidents speeches,
is not devoted to one or two phases
of the Wilsonian mind. 1t includes
speeches made In every year since Mr..
WILSON came to the Presidency.
~ The stranger, reading through this
sabew book, would come on Page 70 to
the following utterance:
81 "America ought to devote
~ itself only to the things that Amer
- lea believes in and. believing that
hes America stands apart in its ideals, It
ought not to allow itself to be drawn.
ss 10 far as It's heart is concerned. into
vlsa anybodys quarrel"
q On Pages $40 and 81 he would
find Mr.. WILSON saying:
america is lighting
for the liberation of peoples every
where from the aggressions OF auto
cratic force"
1--WE are fighting for the liberty.
the self-government and the undic-
tated development OF all peoples"
On Page 1T4 the visitor would find
the President declaring:
Americans must have a conscious
ness different from the consciousness
Of every other nation in the world.
The example of America must
be a special example"
But on Page 344 this quotation from
Wilson speech would face him:
"All the peoples of the world are
In effect partners in this interest
The programme Of the worlds
On Page ia our innocent guest
&, from the East would encounter q
classic:
There Is such thing as a man
being too proud to fight. There Is
10 such a thing as a nation being SO
sd right that 1t does not need to con-
vince othsrs by force that 1t is right"
But on Page ABB this would greet
his eyes:
II have uttered as the objects of
y this great war ideals. and nothing
IL but ideals. and the war has been
won by that inspiration"
Not to mention the modest confes
sion, made In London, which appears
on Page 416:
II am perfectly aware that ] have
IN me all the insurgent elements Of
the human race"
The volume does not pretend to b,
a complete report of the PresIdent'e
speeches and messages, and the Tib
etan would have to seek elsewher,
II he wished to find some of the mos
,sremarkable contrasts and contradic
lions which have distinguished Mr.
WILSON'S utterances In recent years
We doubt. however, that the tourist
from exchanging Asia would care I,