Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-02-11
Woodrow Wilson
AS KNOW HIM
BY JOSEPH P. TUMULTY.

man power was being drawn on
in very much LARGER proportion
than our man power. Therefore,
it was perfectly proper that we
should send men over there and
send materials to make the
means of handling the troops
and the cargoes more expedi-
tiousIy.
1 want you gentlemen to rea-
lie that there was no Wavelike
motion in this thing so tar as
our purpose and preparation are
( concerned. We have met with
delays, of course, in production.
some of which might have been
avoided and ought to have been
avoided, and which are being
slowly corrected, but apart from
that the motive power has been
back of this thing all theA time,
1t has been the means of action
that has oscillated, it has been
sometimes greater and some
times less than was necessary
for the program.
I for my. own part don't like
the idea Of having surprises.
would like the people to be sur
prised that we didn't do our
{ duty, but not surprised that we
did do it. OF course, I don't
( mean that we would surprise
anybody by doing our duty. but
don't just know how to inter-
pref his idea of it, because I
have said the same thing to the
DS,;4 49, oil oil
as informally expressed it to
Lord Reading, that we had been
and always would be doing our
damndest, and there could not
be a more definite American ex-,
preston of purpose than that.
So want youS gentlemen.
therefore, to get out of your
minds, if it has been there, the
idea of any difference Of speed
that resulted from differences of
purpose or plan, or of pressure
from this end, because there
have been no such differences. ]
have said the same thing so oft
en- to the official Representatives
of the allies that / have been
ashamed to say it again, and |
am sure they have understood
the circumstances. They have
not BEEN disturbedas to what we
intend to do.
For Justice to Everybody
AS to another matter Il am jus
giving you things to think abou
md not things to say, if you wi
De kind enough to take it that way
That speech / made on Saturday
nope was correctly understood. w
ire fighting, as I understand it, TO
Justice to everybody and are read
o stop just as soon as justice t
everybody is everybody's program.
rave the same opinion Iy.ivatel
about, 7 will not say the pok5cy, bu
he methods of the Germ n govern
nent that some gentlemen who hav
seen red all the time, but that j
lot a proper part of my thought. M
thought is that if the German gov
srnment insists that the thing sha
De settled unjustly, that is to say b
'orce, then, of course, we accept tina
ind will settle by force. Wheneve
We see sincere symptoms of their de
sire to settle it by justice, we wi
lot only accept their Suggestions, bu
We will be glad and eager to az
,ept them, as I said in my speech
would be ashamed to use the knocl
Town and drag-out language; that
not the language of liberty, that
he language of braggadocio. Flo
ny part, have no desire to marc
into Berlin. If the
oblige us to march triumphantly int
Berlin, then we will do it if it take
axes twenty years. But the worl
will come to it's senses some day, n
matter how mad some parts of
nay be now, and this is my feeling
hat we ought, when the thing
over, to be able TO look back hpo