Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1919 — THE PRESIDENT’S GIFTS [ARTICLE]

THE PRESIDENT’S GIFTS

As estimated in the gossip of the Republican cloak rooms of congress, the gifts received by President Wilson from the rulers and people of Europe were worth any sum between a vague “half a million” and a fmiore indefinite “several millions” of dollars. The immense valuation was placed on them by the partisans not as a measure of President Wilson’s popularity in Europe but as a spur to criticism of him at home. a Now the truth is revealed in the official list of the gifts and appraisement of their value—Which Intrinsically is rather small. It discloses that the Republican critics, including Senator Sherman and Representative Rodenberg, were as far from right' in their guesses on this subject as they are in

respect t<x other statements. The presents are neither so costly as the orators declared nor yet so cheap os these gentlemen must feel after having got the facts —against their will.