President Wilson is an uplifter rather than a reformer. When he sees
things to be done to better the people, or to better anybody, for that
matter, he does them and lets the reform take care of itself.
He has always been a student, and a worker at fashioning brains as a
teacher, professor, college president and at the head of a great
university—Princeton, New Jersey.
Having a trained, enlightened mind, and not buried beneath books, he
expressed his views about public matters and public men who did not
perform their duty to the people, so vigorously and so truthfully, that
he was believed, and the people made him governor of New Jersey.
In this office he did so much in altering distasteful political
conditions, that he was considered a proper candidate for the presidency
of the United States where the same untoward conditions existed as in
New Jersey. He was elected, and is doing things all the time to better
conditions, and although he has many enemies who fancy only a settled
condition of things where they will not be disturbed in the management
of them, the President is driving them to cover and will undoubtedly be
successful in his endeavors.
Woodrow Wilson is a man of action and has a large background of learning
to fortify himself. Fortified in every direction and from every point of
attack, he is not an easy man to tackle or to find fault with. The
opposition to him was that he was a university man, and therefore he did
not know enough about politics to carry the country safely through a
four years’ term. But the people are finding out that it does not
require as much politics to run the country as it does education and
intelligence combined with energy and persistence. He is beating down
petty statesmanship and establishing the government along the lines of
benefit to the people. He may be considered as an instrument in the
improvement of a nation, and as giving it a long start back to first
principles which mean progress.