The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1920-12-30

sacrificed his whole phySlcal WeLl-De-
ing for the thing that is nearest his
heart. He sat there in his wheel chair
like a wounded soldier, only too anX-
ious to keep up the fight to the last
by explaining and clarifying the issue
for American citizens. When he al
luded to the loss. of lives during the
war, his voice not only faltered, but
very perceptibly broke. He was over
come by a tenderness and feeling that
you would hardly expect in a public
man. And as he sat there beneath
the picture of Lincoln, felt that the
Great Emancipator was looking down
and indorsing the man and his mes
sage
eff Woodrow Wilson isn't sincere,
we have never had a public man
that was sincere. I think the privil-
eye Of witnessing such dramatic
scene is the elimination of the fight
around the issue that is an epoch
in American history is the biggest
thing that has ever happened to
me-"
Joseph NJ. Price of New York:
Il feel that the man has simply
laid down his life for the things he
believed in. If the people of the
country could realize what he has
gone through l believe such wave
of sympathy would sweep over the
country that all the rancor would dis
appear overnight
cit was a horrible shock to see
President Wilson. Probably to those
who have been with him constantly
the change has not seemed SO tre-
mendous, and probably he has been
a great deal worse than he is now,
but the physical change in the man is
something of which the people of the
country have absolutely no realiza-
ton. At times when he was reading
his address l didn't think he could
finish. He feels so much about this
subject to the League of Nations!
He really feels that it is the one
hope of the world for peace.
Utterly Broken.
''To those who remember him as
he was when his voice was alert and
clear and keen, the sight of him as
he is now, is shocking. He is really
broken, and I feel that he has mar
tyred himself for the great cause.
People have no idea of the terrific
strain he has been under, and par
ticularly the strain of the last two
years. In Paris Mr.. Wilson put in a
tremendous effort to put across the
League of Nations. People have no
idea how he has worked.
''The hatred of Wilson is to me
incomprehensible. He stands now
just where he has always stood
where he stood when the people &C
claimed him a few months ago. He
has not changed. Their point of view
may have changed, poisoned by the
deliberate conspiracy of Republican
senators. | haven't doubt that the
treaty would have been ratified in
month if it had not been a presiden-
tial election year. l have seen a
number of campaigns. In 1913 I con-
Quoted the mayoralty campaign for
Mitchell against Tammany Hall, and
I have never seen a, campaign where
there was as much misrepresentation
and lying as there has been in this
one"
John Bates Clark, professor of eco
nomics at Columbia University:
''In a general way everybody's i'm
preston was alike. The president
was easily fatigued, and his strength
was not az great as we had hoped
to find it. l feel that he has almost
martyred himself in a great cause in
which we profoundly believe. The
tremendous crucial hour at the close
of the war would not have bound the
nations so closely together but for
the presence of a great man who has
lost his health, his endurance in work
ing for the cause. We all felt very
sympathetic, solemn and sorrowful.
Il think the wrong impression has
been given out when it is said that
his voice was inaudible. My own
hearing is imperfect, and could hear
everything he said. He greeted
quite number of us whom he knew
by name, and had some kindly word
for all. His voice was firm and clear,
and the old light that we remember
was upon his face In reading, his
voice was natural and strong at the
beginning of the paragraphs, but at
I,