Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1916 — Not His Words, But His Deeds. [ARTICLE]

Not His Words, But His Deeds.

They cau’t bear to have President Wilson’s administration called to account.,- They insist on reading his speeches to you and asking if they aren’t gems. \ They offer in evidence his heroic sentiments and sounding periods and submit that it is a shame to inquire closely into his acts. When confronted by evdence that he has failed, they querulously ask what Hughes would have done and bewail the ungehtlemanly disposition of those who turn the searchlight upon the plain annals of Watchful Waiting. Thcyare willing ten examine into the character of the prosecuting witness and the attorneys for the state, but the man who is on trial for his stewardship is immune. All down the way from the day when he took the chair with the good will and respect of 100,000,000 people, Woodrow Wilson has pursued the hesitating, ineffective and vacillating course of the empire scholar, the amateur statesman, the brilliant and erratic essayist upon every conceivable topic, but that of the wise and firm executive upon none. There is no great issue of the hoar but hes has written and spoken on both sides of it with wonderful fluency and incisiveness. Everything that could be desired in a philosophic historian, an impressive orator, a graceful stylist, President Wilson is, nevertheless, a man unfitted by mental equipment, by disposition, ~by training and habit for the task of consistent and resolute leadership in the field of steadfast and constructive statesmanship.-Th» is why his defenders grow impatient with examinations of his quality and insist that anything and everything is germane to the question except the supremely important matter of his having done well or ill, not in words, but in deeds.