Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1921-05-04
JUDGE SEEDS, APOLOGY

The writer felt grieved, inexpress-
ibly grieved, when he read in the
Manchester Press Of the 21st of last
month Judge Seeds apology for tell
ing the truth about Woodrow Wilson,
for placing Wilson in the same rank
with Washington and Lincoln.
For many years we have believed
that Ed. P. Seeds. our boyhood friend,
was incapable Of being on the wrong
side Of any moral question; incapable
of being untrue to himself or untrue to
anyone, and now, under the sting OF
criticism. he apologies for a correct
opinion fearlessly stated.
To help friend Seeds to verify the
correctness Of the opinion originally
expressed by him, we call his atten-
ton to Woodrow Wilson'S place in
History, written by General Jan
Christian SHUTS, Premier Of the Union
of South Africa. This review Of the
work done by Wilson in the World
War was written by Premier SHUTS
at the instance Of the New York Eve
ming Post, and was reproduced in
current History for April.
Premier SHUTS is known the world
over as one of the ablest and most
scholarly statesmen who took part
in the Peace Conference. He shows
how Wilson, the leader Of the great
est state in the world, was raised to
far giddier heights and became the
center Of the worlds hopes; how at a
time Of deepest darkness and despair
Wilson raised aloft a light to which
all eyes turned; how he spoke divine
words of healing to a broken human
ity; how his words became the con-
tractural basis for the armistice and
the peace.
The following are the closing
paragraphs OF the Premier's review:
The covenant is Wilson's souvenir
to the future Of the world. No one
will ever deny him that honor.
The honor Is very great, indeed.
For the covenant IS one of the great
creative documents of human history.
The Peace Treaty will fade into merci.
full oblivion, and its provisions Will
be gradually obliterated by the great
human tides sweeping over the world.
But the covenant will stand as sure
as fate. Forty-twO nations gathered
around It at the first meeting of the
League Mt Geneva. And the day Is not
far off when all the free people OF
the world will gather round Il. II
must succeed, because there Is no
other way for the future Of civilian
tion. It does not realize the great
hopes born Of the war, but it pro-
yides the only method and instru-
ment by which in the course Of time
those hopes can be realized.
Speaking as one who has some right
to speak on the fundamental cOncep-
tons, objects and methods Of the
covenant, j feel sure that most Of the
present criticism Is based on misun.
These misnnderstand-
lngs will clear away, one ~ one the
people still outside the covenant will
fall in behind this banner under which
The human race Is going to mrach for
ward to triumphs Of peaceful organ.
.atiOn and achievement undreamed Of
by us children Of an unhappier era,
and the leader who, I'M spite OF up.
parent failure, succeeded in inscrib-
Ing the name on that banner has
achieved the most enviable and en-
Turing Immortality. Americans Of the
future will yet proudly and gratefully
rank him with Washington and Lin
.oln, and his fame will have more
universal. Significance than theirs.