The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-02-28


up his mind to 90 out and see the
sights of these romantic lands.
And the sightseeing trip that
has been put on by the Presiden.
tial party has been about the last
word. 1t has been one grand and
scrumptious de luxe edition. More
over. it has been a most amazing
thing to do and if it had been done
at the conclusion of any other war
in history there would have been a
new war on the map in minute.
For example, look at the trip TO
Italy. The President goes down
there in the land of irridenta and
olive cheeks and summons to him
one Bissolati, him being no other
than the man who but a few days
ago gave up his seat in the Italien
cabinet because of a row over the
| Wilson idea for which he stood I'M
compromisingly against his major
ity colleagues who stood for some
thing else and older.
Imagine going into another man s
yard and calling to your side for
converse and glad-handing some
one who doesn't agree with the boss
of the premises about where the
line fence should be.
That's just sample of what this
tour has been. The fact is that the
President has gone through the
length and breadth of the lands
communing with the people.
And the way the people are with
him almost makes a person gasp.
1t must make a whole host of an
cient statesmen do much more than
gasp. 1t must make them choke.
And not only must it have this I'M
comfortable effect upon the states
men of these parts, but it must go
awfully hard with the dodos at
home, of whom there are just as
many there as here. 1t must be
getting so that men like Henry Ca
bot Lodge hates to read the morn
ing papers, and probably a good
many of them have got so they
skip the front pages altogether!
Wilson has just gone from one
country to the other amid the &C
claim of the plain people. And all
The sensible plain people are with
him till the we'll goes dry. Be il
said with deep gratitude also that
most of the government people are
| likewise with him; whether out of
conviction or out of fear of the
parade doesn't matter so much.
| Especially in England is the pop
ular and official sentiment inclin-
| ed in the same direction with Will
son. One prime reason for that is
that of all the allied countries Eng
| land has no Irridenta England has
no lost territory, no lost people, to
reach out after. She's all on her
title islands and nobody else is on
them-eXcept some wild Irishmen
who enjoy life best when the fer
ment is hottest, so it seems.
Wilson's tour of the Grand Cir
cult has brought the people out of
their she'll There never has been
so much expression of the popular
viewpoint as there has been since
\, ilson came over He seems to
have given voice to a great COM
mon longing. AS he has gone among
them the people have proved by
their voice that their faces are
turned in wonderful resoluteness
toward a new and better world in
which old dogmas and old creeds
are going to get it where the little
red hen gets the chilled blade.
There has never been such a
great demonstration of the fact that
the human heart beats everywhere
in much the same manner, that
freedom begets a love for more
freedom and that justice is the one
best bet.
President Wilson has talked
nothing but justice-nothing but
high humanitarianism And how
the people have risen to his mes
sage. 1t is as if someone had come
with big drink to people who had
been thirsty for a century!
The most amazing feature of it
all is that the whole tour has been
a propaganda tour OF course no
body ever calls it that and maybe
nobody much thinks of it in that
way. But that is just what 1t is.
if you want to use plain English.
Never did the head of any great
nation do any such thing before. 1t
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