Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1918 — THE HOWLERS HUSHED [ARTICLE]

THE HOWLERS HUSHED

Well, the president of the United States has been out of the country for over two weeks, and the nation has not gone to the demnition bow-wows yet. He was in constant communication with Washington by wireless during the entire sea trip, and has since kept in equally close touch by cable. Woodrow Wilson astonished the natives soon after he took office by beginning to break a few precedents that had long existed for no particular reason, except that they had so existed, and he has kept up the pace pretty thoroughly since. -Every time he did it a few chronic kickers asserted that it was an awful thing for him to do, but later events have always showed that he knew what he was doing, and why. <tnd we imagine that a lot of the republican papers and orators that worked themselves into a frenzy when Wilson announced his proposed tri-p to Europe are already feeling pretty well ashamed of themselves. —Pulaski Co. Democrat.