The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-04-18

erica to be equal to the most difficult
of all tasks. Rather he dared to ask
America to stand unhinchingly upon
the highest level.
That was the head and front of his
| offending. 1t will always be account
ed to Americas honor tnat it would
have remained equal to the summons
of the great leader to the ve~y end
had it not ben for a campaign of mis-
representation and Imprisonment
which for a time availed to becioud
the mind of America.
! Some day the story viii be written
and men will be able to weigh and
free to choose. 1t seems a sordld,
gleamless tale, the tragedy of the
highest ends of life sacrificed at The
behest of partisan prejudice and per-
! sonal malignity The struck him
down, thinking they would destroy
him forever. In truth for time they
shattered some of the pillars of the
worlds Temple of Peace, but they
have revealed that he is to live for
, ever.
He kept us out of war too long, say
smoe, not long enough, say others.
But he led US into the war, we and
our valiant allies were gloriously led
by his spirit calling us to victory IN
the highest. What shall be said of
those who kept US out of the peace
and in truth have kept peace far from
the ways of the world? Today we
face every responsibility and yet fail
to exert the authority that is right
fully our own. Never was the unique
opportunity so frivolously cast away.
This, the achievement of such as Inn
it their horizon with the hope for the
outcome of an election. The Wash
ington conference is only the second
step in the great and solemn referen-
dunn for which h asked. But on, the
pity of the confusion that obtains!
Washington, Cannes, Genoa, Geneva
everything short of a genuine and
generous concert of the liberated
peoples of earth such as Wilson plan
ned and all but made inevitable.
The great, the supremely great ser
vice of Woodrow Wilson to the ma
tions was rendered as the Interpreter
of American idealism. First he form
ed the mind of America, first he shap-
ed Americas soul, then he dared to
utter that soul at its highest He be-
lieved in America; he appealed to his
countrymen at their noolest. 1t IS
true. as has been urged against him
by one of the leading organs of pub
lie opinion, that he overrated the cap
acity of the people for sustained VS.
ion and purpose
For time, we have lost the moral
leadership fthe world. But let US
have faith. eve shall come back
return to those high levels we have
abandoned. No good cause is ever
lost Is thehe anything l can do!
7 am still ready to serve" Wilson
has so greatly wrought for America,
Wilson has so nightly served human
kind. that we lift our hearts and pray
to God to bless the America OF Wash
ington and Lincoln, of Iheodore
Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.
"When from the en,batsled world the
smoke of hate,
Vengeance, and violence shall nave
rolled away,
Tear christened shall have dawned
the amber day
OF peace and reason in the realm OF
Then thou, who leraned to labor and
to wait
Tbronoh storm and stress with patient
faith, shalt see
A wiser peoples deeper loyalty
Reouite thee with their love, y chief
of state,
And when thy nobler purpose snail
appear
Revealed all golden on the world S
highway,
Then shall nation, nay, a heml-
sphere,
Exalt the far flung wisdom OF thy
way,
O greater chieftain of the higher
mind"