The Washington herald., 1921-03-06

As woodrow Wilson goes into
private life editors Of many news
papers comment on his tecord OF
achievement. his place In, history
and in the hearts OF his country
men.
The following are reprinted:
New York Times.
President Wilson entered upon
the first day OF private life amid q
perceptibly kinder feeling for him
even on the part of his bitter po-
litical opponents. They know in
their hearts that the abase' and
hatred of him have been excessive.
A reaction in. his favor is sure to
come-has come already. Mean
while, politics apart. there are GER
tain qualities displayed by Mr.. Will
son which all can agree in admir-
ing as he leaves the White House.
New York Herald.
Woodrow Wilson is so pre-emi-
nently endowed In intellect. Is so
masterful a leader of men, with a
personality and diction so dis
tinguished and so gracious, that II
must be a deep regret to the en-
tire nation that his passing from
the great office he had held through
eight such eventful years is not In
the glory of brilliant triumph.
Broken in health, his vast ambi-
tions shattered. and his party fallen
away from him, his outgoing, COM
pared with the splendor of his fg-
ure when all the world bowed be-
fore his power and prestige. Is
tragic.
His achievements. his failures, the
inmost aims of his heart. the scope
Of his humanity--all these are for
the scrutiny and analysis of the
historian.
Baltimore Sun.
Contemplating the full record to-
day. when the emotions of wartime
have subsided. and when the know
ledge that Woodrow Wilson can no
longer be a factor in our politics
aids to a calm and just appraise-
ment. when they dispassionately OBJ
serve that though he himself is
| about to retire forever from office
his ideas still survive and his bea-
con light still shines. they must still
account him a great leader of a
great cause at a critical moment OF
the worlds history. They will give
to him at the moment of retirement
renewed acknowledgment Of their
faith, their gratitude and their re-
spect, and their very great sympa-
thy for him in his physical afflic-
tion. And they will hail him, not
as a failure. but as a victor.
| Philadelphia North American.
One attribute of greatness no
commentator will be. hardy enough
to deny to Woodrow Wilson. He
was man of strong intellectual
and moral fiber. of vigorous mental
ity. of forceful character; no other
could have established and main
tanned a dominance so pronounced
over his party and administration,
or left so deep an impress upon the
mind Of mankind Even though he
fell from pre-eminence with a swift
ness unparalleled, and though but
meager fragments remain of the in
nuence he once welded, the world
will not readily forget him nor
overcome the impulses he set in mo-
tlon. To most minds the strangest
aspect of the. Wilson phenomenon,
| perhaps. was the contradiction be-
| tween his course as President and
| eHS ShdIdCle IN WnlCn ne TOOK Of
nee eight years ago. The candidate
who had campaigned as the cham
pion of popular government, the ex-
ponent OF a new freedom. the ad-
vocate of "pitiless publicity" be-
came as Chief Executive a erasper
at autocratic power. the representa-
tive Of repression. the instigator of
the most secretive and furtive meth
| DDS OF government ever practiced
under free institutions.
Christian Science Monitor.
Observers will estimate variously
the man for whom today is the last
| IN eight years of high service as
| PRESIDENT of the United States of
America But none of them can
estimate him truly who fail to un-
derstand that whatever he has done
IN fulfilling the requirements of his
onice has been the result OF the
guiding of his conscience and ex-
pressive of an exalted sense of duty.
Woodrow Wilson brought high
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