The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-02-04
WORLD WAR AND
ITS PROBLEMS
FELL ON HIM
Will BE Remembered in His
tory as One of the Nations
War Presidents
Health Failed While Engaged
in Fight For the League
of Nations

Of Nations
One Of the war Pres idcnts' of the
United States, burdenet by problems
and tasks rs great if not greater
than those borne by Washington and
Lincoln. the words and works OF
Woodrow Wilson are still too vivid
in the public mind to assure them
of complete appraisal. A decade
or two hence, perhaps, the world Will
fix upon this great American its
estimate of his eight years service
as the chief magistrate Of the re-
public that furnished $4,000. 100000
nearly five millions of men and al
most ineXhaustible war material to
end the deadlock between the Allies
and the Central Powers and bring
Germany to defeat in the historic
struggle of l9li-l9lS.
II was under Woodrow Wilson :
leadership that the United States
abandoned its policy of Isolation
and became an active parties pant in
world affairs. The republic under
went a national metamorpho Mr..
Wilson, nicknamed the schoolmas tc +
in politics." formerly head of Prince
ton University, was the first DEM
ocrat since Andrew Jackson to serve
two terms as President.
He began smashing preccdents al
most Immediately after his induction
into office by delivering his ad-
dresses in person before Congress
and finished by going to Europe to
attend the Peace Conference. He
went abroad twice, first in Decem-
Der, 1918, and again in March, 1919.
At times he was the most idolzed
and the most bitterly assailcd Pres
idcnt since Abraham Lincoln
Friends cxtollcd him as 1.-The peace
maker Of the world; enemies de.
clarcd he had thrown to the winds
Washington's warnings to beware of
"entangling alliances with foreign
powers
Helped Draft Treaty
The war over and the Treaty of
Versailles, which he pers onally had
helped to draft in Paris, signed by
'thc Big Four'-Clcmcnceau, Lloyd
George, Orlando and Wilson--the
President returned from France tc
begin a, few months later on Sep
TENDER ,, 1919, Il 10,0O0-milc speak
ing tour of the United States in be-
half of the League of Nations cove.
nant, which was part of the treaty
A conservative Senate threatened
and did block its ratification Dur.
ing 26 days of almost constant travel
he delivered speeches aggregatine
100000 words
Working. his way East from tn,
Pacific coast, he had planned to
make many more addresses in behalf
of the League but reaching Wichita
kans., suffered a physical collapse
which caused him regretfully tc
abandon his tour.
At times during the following rs
months, he was desperately i'll and
had recovered only sufficiently as
late rs March 4, 1921 to accompany
Warren G. Harding, his successor, to
the capitol for participation in par,
OF the inauguration ceremony. Pre-
vious to this he had made only one
public appearance in all that time
on June l6, 1920, and there were
many alarming rumors regarding the
state of his health.
Relieved of the cares of office
Mr.. Wilson's convalescence was more
rapid and although he did not regain
entirely his one-time robust health,
he was able to engage in the practice
of law in Washington in partnership
with cambridge Colby, his former
Secretary Of State. The former Pres
ident and Mrs. Wilson resided there
In beautiful home which they pur-
chased for Sl50,00O some months
before his retirement. Before leav-
ing the White House, however, he
was the recipient of a signal honor
The Nobel Prize was awarded to Mr.
Wilson "as the person who has pro-
NOTED most or best the fraternity of
nations and the adjustment or di-
intuition of standing armies and the
formation and increase of peace
congresses" In accepting it, Pres
ldent Wilson wrote on Dec. H., 1920:
THE cause of peace and the cause
Of truth are of one family. Even as
those who love science and devote
their lives to physics or chemistry
even as those who create new and
higher ideals for mankind in liter
allure, even so with those who love
peace, there is no limit set. What
ever has been accomplished in the
past is petty compared to the glory
of the promise of the future"
While President Wilson had fire.
qucnt differences of opinion with
the members of his cabinet, there
were only two or three failing outs"
during the entire eight years Of his
administration. Before his first in
auguration he had come to the part
ing Of the ways with the late Will
liam +. McCombs and with Col
George Harvey, two Original Will
son men," both of whom had work
ed for his nomination and election.
The Wilson cabinet changes, not,
ably few, were started in 1915 when
William ]. Bryan, Secretary Of State,
opposed to the Presidents handling
of his warning notes to Germany,
resigned. A year later, Lindley NJ.
Garrison, Secretary Of War, relin-
pushed his post as the result of a
sharp difference of opinion with the
President over the need for prepar-
edness, Garrison maintaining that
the country's military strength was
inadequate. Bryan was succeeded by
Robert Lansing and Garrison sby
Newton D. Baker, former Mayor Of
Cleveland, Ohio. In 1920 Lansing
Made way as Secretary of State for