Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1920 — WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1920 [ARTICLE]

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1920

Wilson and the peace prize. With apparent authority, the Swedish newspapers announce that the Nobel peace prize for 1920 will be •awarded to President Wilson. In •this evfent, never will the bestowal have been justified so amply by facts and the chosen man. This may be said prejudice to any previous recipient of the prize, since never before has the award followed upon the heels of so portentous and momentous an occasion as the late world war. JVIr. Wilson is an idealist, as his partisan enemies have charged. There is a distinction in the truth of this charge. But it was as a practical man as well as an idealist that he took his place among the forces directed to the bringing of the conflict to a righteous close. American troops turned the tide of European battle. It is quite as literally true that the fighting stopped at the word of the American president. How futile partisan criticism has been or can be In its effort to rob Woodrow Wilson of the great and lasting glory of his position is indicated l in the words of Maximilian Harden quoted today in the news columns of The World. '“lmmortality,” says the great independent German editor, “is as certain to Wilson’s, speeches as to the meditations of the Roman Emperor, Marcus Aurelius, who also, dropped half way up the heights.” And in continued eulogy of our president, on the occasion of the league meeting at Geneva, Harden stamps as “the most beautiful, the enly great experience of the war” the fact “that Wilson existed and that he aroused an echo which roaring cannon could not thrown.” The heralded Judgment at Stockholm is thus appreciated in advance from the land which was so lately of the enemy.—New York World.