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dent had an oversconfi idence i'm the un-
q selfishness OF human nature, hut he
4 did not betray his country. No puref.
triot ever lived than woodrow viii
son. Every drop of his blood tiagIes
with patriotic devotion to his father
land. And yet it may be, true that he.
believed that America could prosper
by helping other nations, better than
fby fighting them If that is foolish,
blessed he the folly
His. best friends are willing to ad-
NIT that WeodroW Wilson has made
mistakes. Has ever great man miss
! ed making mistakes? The dearest
/ friends we ever had have faults
which we Wisil they did not have, and
no doubt they feel the same way to-
ward US. The chief faults which we
| wish they did not intend was that he
was a1tocratic, and imperued the lib
critics of the people. We believe that
some Of this crittcisIn is just. Wood
row Wilson's aHtccIacy was partly the
result OF facircunl stances and partly re.
suited from his tt,nlperaneut. None
Of was wIif5il attempt to abuse
the great power committed to his
hands, for his own purpose
IS War is autoeratic Republicans can
Hot wage successful war Power
must be centralized before success
can come to armies. and to nations
Waging war. 12ecause we knew this
we gave the President unprecedent-
ed power. We tried to escape au-
tocracy in the armies upon the field,
but F'och. was the sign of our awak-
ening. We won the war when we
put an autocrat at the head of the
allied armies.
~Btt by temperament woodrow
/ Wilson is an autocTat He cannot
successfully. use men because his
Agenius makes him think ahead of men.
They cannot see quickly and distinctly
enough We have said that in this
mans heart is dream, a beautiful
dream of world brotherhood. He would
Danish war from the earth. He was
Obsessed, borne away, absorbed with
this great dream. To accomplish that
dream was to him the one real thing
in all the world. AS we see it he was
mighty near right. To destroy this
vile thing forever from the earth is
a bigger business than any other with
which we are engaged. M we must
J go onsbeing brutes forever, we win de-
sspair of the race.
Esz very dreamer. is autoefatic To-
whfle+thfng IN the world; to make sfhe
world follow the gleam, the onlv busi-
ness OF j fe In this spirit there can
lN0z oir-0
dreamer will die for his dream, but
he will not 1compromise it, mr. 3u~-
render it. Woodrow Wilson hid OF
to his league of nations, in spite of
the ridicule, and persecution of his
enemies. He hel~ on because g
could not let go and believe as he be-
1ieved. He will never Let go. He VIII
retire, but if his magnificent brain
functions, he will weave for us new
fancies of the the golden age, and the
weaving of those fancies will help to
bring it on.
/ What we have written will not
please s0me If our readers c7G't z7e
have written because we ought to say
this much for the man who has stood
before the world for eight years as
: ChS uCctu VI tIl6 SI0dL0SL udCIOu OH
! earth, and preached a height of noble
living and high and unselfish thinking
such as no ruler has ever preached be-
fore. He was a scholar in politics, we
hear with much scorn, but politics is
cleaner because a dreamer has in
jected his dreams of sweetness and
light into it.
/ Woodrow Wilson will come back.
He will not hold office again. we
think, but he will come back as the
prophet who saw in the face of God
a message that he has delivered to
the world, and in that he will stand
with the royal ones, who have opened
a little wider the gates that separate
this life OF ours from the exultant life
of love that rules and reigns in heaven.
Like Robbie Burns the people have
denied thee the bread of gratitude, but
after awhile they will give thee a
stone, pure white, to speak to later
generations of the heroes of the past.
Frank T. Benson.