PRESIDENT WILSON
President Wilson is an uplifter rather than a reformer. When he sees things to be done to better the people, or to better anybody, for that matter, he does them and lets the reform take care of itself.
He has always been a student, and a worker at fashioning brains as a teacher, professor, college president and at the head of a great university—Princeton, New Jersey.
Having a trained, enlightened mind, and not buried beneath books, he expressed his views about public matters and public men who did not perform their duty to the people, so vigorously and so truthfully, that he was believed, and the people made him governor of New Jersey.
In this office he did so much in altering distasteful political conditions, that he was considered a proper candidate for the presidency of the United States where the same untoward conditions existed as in New Jersey. He was elected, and is doing things all the time to better conditions, and although he has many enemies who fancy only a settled condition of things where they will not be disturbed in the management of them, the President is driving them to cover and will undoubtedly be successful in his endeavors.
Woodrow Wilson is a man of action and has a large background of learning to fortify himself. Fortified in every direction and from every point of attack, he is not an easy man to tackle or to find fault with. The opposition to him was that he was a university man, and therefore he did not know enough about politics to carry the country safely through a four years’ term. But the people are finding out that it does not require as much politics to run the country as it does education and intelligence combined with energy and persistence. He is beating down petty statesmanship and establishing the government along the lines of benefit to the people. He may be considered as an instrument in the improvement of a nation, and as giving it a long start back to first principles which mean progress.