Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1921-04-01
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WILSON.

Stephane Lausanne, editor of the
arlS Matin, and formerly French of.
rT,,:. press representative in the
Hm,.ed III! states, endeavors, rs Presi-
e"a wilson retlres to private life,
On eT give Just estimate of his work.
re won the war. but nearly lost
the peace" is one of Ianzorn r0SS
striking ideas The article follows.
After eight years of wise omd
absolute, government. Mr.. Woodrow
wilson has abandoned the Presidency
OF the United States.
we must always try to he inst
5eihg Il victim must not prevent ne
from being just. Let us try. then
10 remain Just toward this man. who
Is leaving his supreme power. GER
fanny with dignity, though perhaps
without glory. "'P'
we must not forget that history
wiil say of President Wilson, more
IMAM OF any other man. If he LOST
the peace, he at least won the wor,
we must not forget what America
was III the spring of 1917. when she
was thrown into the battle. She
was far from being unanimous in
wanting war. She was divided into
three parts-the Atlantic, which alone
trembled with rage Mt the German
outrages; the Middle West. with Chi
eago, st. Louis. Cincinnati, Milwau-
Kee, crowded with Germans or neo-
PIE OF German descent, and then the
Pacific, which, so far as exterior
,anger is concerned, only knows tho
Japanese peril, and who heard of
the sinking of the Lusitania lust M
unuer inc palm, trees at Sorrento the
news is received of snow avalanche
IN Norway. To Mr.. Wilson will re-
nam the lasting merit of having
soh4iiied the three parts of America.
"a. MS voice the whole continent had
out one mind and one thought.
do not let u. forget that this
voice sounded with Incompatible
sequence. Certain OF Wilson's words
VIII always remain beautiful because
they are ever true. These words were
accompanied also with splendid deeds.
Having once accepted war. Mr. vii.
son did it thoroughly. He put tho
whole resources and the whole will
OF the nation into it.
but this war was his ruin He
lost with it his natural timidiav and
his usual prudence. His doctrinnI
vanity knew no limits. He fancied
himself as the professor of the whole
world But there, too we must not
forget that it was not entirely his
fauit, and we must blame ourselves
as well.
1--WE must rcmch.r." continues
the writer, that when his vanity
began to take him into the clouds
we made no sincere effort to bring
him back to earthly realities. Lei
us remember that when in October
1913, he submitted officially and sol,
EMMY the fourteen points for the
appreciation of the French govern
ment he received not a word Of crit.
cism or disapprobation. We must al
so remember that when in Decem.
Der. 1913, he was for the first time
m Paris with the French representa-.
yves, the latter did not speak to him.
and even boosted of it in the cham,
Der. '"' e''''"'-
"Mr. Wilson has already partly
made up for his mistakes by the
dignity with which he has borne the
moral and physical sufferings which
tney cost him.. There is something
OF Eschylus in y, tragedy which for
the last eighteen months has been
taking plac ct the White House; n
ms work is scarcely thriving; he has
fallen very far from his dreams.
But, in the midst of all this, he has
no bitter words; he remains perfect
ly calm.
France" continues the writer
which he helped to save, and which
he afterward nearly lost. will always
esteem him; But she will always re-
gret that she. is only able to put a
plaster cast OF the philosopher on the
pedestal that, she has prepared in
would have liked to erect to man
VT justice"