Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-01-24

great
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Ah Apprecial'oh first World-uttegance to bes9eaTd
and aprophecv in the eaHsesof universal suffrage
L. HE seigad. the, Nexprmga torch OF
civilization from amidst the7r1nns Of Europe groRmg ~
darkness, and held it that the desparing peoples
might kindle their affairs with the sacred flame OF
freedom. go ~ - BIZ
He bore the oftiest message to mankind since the
Divine Voice out of Nazareth: His words were as Truly
nsned as the exhortaions Of the Old Hebrew prophets
and the listening nations hung Oh his sentences Win
hearts set a-throb with. a new Wofld-hope:E -
When the MachaVelian el1lSsai1es: of Allies sub
seyient to all the mean and narrow traditions OF medieval
diplomacy nterected their sinister designs INTO Tie c9u
ellis that were to determine the fate OF world woodrow
Wilson threatened to appeal to their masters the multi
miloned masses behind them They knew and he knew,
That the threat was not idle and that his appeal would be
hearkened to- and needed in that court of last resort c
coringy they professed to YIELD and caneutIaged Tor
the time the ueor motives that dominated their thought
and action. ,.
It was only after weeks and months Of the most
strenuos nerve wracking toll piled onto the should
ers of one mortal man. that League of Nations took
shape as the first attempt in history to make world sal
for democracy document that marks new era IN tne
affairs Of mankind As vastly important than tn
Magma Charta or the Declaration Of Independence as tn
stupendos total Of humanity surpasses in Importance any
one people 60
At the time Of the armistice all Europe was one Wete
;of blood-ust greed and revenge English, trench ta
ians Belgians-saw red and only red The british pas
ons engendered and nrsed through four years OF ter
tribe warfare at last let loose Germany, with It's
teenlng millions of kindred Teutonc Blood to be Ut
erly crushed ruined starved annhiated In the NEAR
time, England was to get this France that Belgium some
thing else, and Italy to have what left Into this en-
Enrolment Of seethng hatred and ebittelvd passions
lcame Woodrow Wilson, the sole standardbearer Of
Christian civzatonA With simplicity of demeanor be-
goten only of democracy with adgnity Of bearing
born only Of the american president
took his seat at the council table easily chief among his
Icompeers Nay more, the fiEs among all men the
cynosure of the eyes efearth.
Sngly and unaided he fought his battles n1hat daily
tournament of Ttansa Even among those closssto him,
Ibis GOWN colaIEape Sfroa4 as GWn land, lie found but
Support Theloneest in all the world
Still he waTered not flnched Upbone by one Of the
most ndomitdbe wills ever Vouchsafed to man. he struo
Iged on marvel of endurance miracle of patencean
courage Victory at last victory must come
TO men of like mold The League Of Nations was born
Whatever of compromise there is in it. whatever of the
Iimpefectio that turks in ali human interchangeable
germ there grow throughout the ages till universal
peace lies like a shaft of light across all lands
That Woodrow Wilson freely offered up his life in the
sefsame for which our brave sodierboys died on
Flandersfieds, his enemies will not deny That he
may have been spared by aWse Providence for great
er tasks come does affect the nobility Of the sac
fice Nor the fate of the troops the battlefield
less happy Their sfferngs over their enshrne
nent in the hearts OF their countymen assured forever
But the president has endured for years the envenomed
shafts of political hatred and private malice. Histoly,i
however will set him Alright in the eyes of posterity His
place is in the pantheon Of the worlds great men
Now that the burdens are be lifted from his should
ers the ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE wishes the president
long years of improving health and consequent useful
ness to mankind It ventures to predict for him full
need Of those honors that love- that reverence from Al
grateful people, whichhe has well earned to which he