Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1919 — THE PRESIDENT’S TOUR [ARTICLE]

THE PRESIDENT’S TOUR

For several months the President’s opponents have had a sort of “open season” of criticism of him and his policies and proposals. While he was busy in the solution of the world’s biggest problem a large number of his fellow countrymen were engaged in the easiest of all tasks —finding fault. So mean and petty and spiteful has been some of this carping -that one can hardly escape believing its authors would have found as much, satisfaction

tn hla failure (If he had failed) as other more patriotic Americans have derived from bis successes. But a few weeks hence the Preeident Is to tour the country and meet friends and foes face to face and give the American people an account of his stewardship. He will at the same time doubtless afford them some understanding of the tremendous difficulties that confronted him in the peace conference and submit to them the greatest of all modern achievements in Htatesiuansbip—the League of Nations. Those who have misunderstood, those, who have judged hastily and those who have been misled will have the truth from the President's lips, and will be convinced. Only the partisan and the narrow traditionalist may be expected to remain proof against facts and reason.