Life — February 27, 1913 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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a er ST a AFTER THE INAUGURATION CEREMONIES get, her works going again, and ar- range a Chautauqua system for her that would modernize and middle- class her and keep her axle boxes lubricated so they didn’t heat so—my! what a good work, what an exploit, that would be! MOST everybody in the country wants Mr. Wilson to make good as President. There may be a little handful of citizens of New Jersey to whom a chance to say “I told you so" would be consoling, even at the cost of some damage to the country. But they are few and not important The three great political bodies in the country—the Republicans, the Pro- gressives and the Democrats—are all favorably disposed to Mr. Wilson and feel that they had a hand in electing him, and want to see him make a good President. And Mr. Wilson wants to do a great deal more than just rub along in a great office and get no discredit. He really wants to better the conditions of human life. He wants to put peo- ple who need more money in the way of getting it, and people who need more knowledge in the way of get- ting it. He wants to break down un- natural barriers that fence off oppor- tunity. Where the great economic 409 machinery of the country is working unfairly or imperfectly, he wants to readjust it. Where the trusts are hurt- ful he wants to break them up; where the tariff is hurtful he wants to re- vise it; where our money system is bad he wants it bettered; where our agriculture is stupid and keeps the farmers poor, he wants to let intel- ligence into it. Mr. Wilson wants to bring the best obtainable intelligence to the solution of the problems of gov- ernment and life in this country. That is what he is there for. He not only wants these things, but there are signs that he wants them with power, with insight and with courage. Matters have loosened up very much in the last five, ten, fifteen years. Habits have been assailed; precedents upset. The system” is groggy. Ev- erything that has to do with business and government is much more moy- able and plastic than it was when Me- Kinley beat Bryan the first time. A powerful, shaping mind and will, with strong backing and unselfish co-opera- tion, can help us very much now. Ii people get to believe that Mr. Wilson has the requisite powers of mind and will to select what is sound and essen- tial, and to reject that what is fallacious and fantastic, they will back him for the country’s good; back him, if nec: in pretty bold policies, and co-operate with him and help him all they can. We all want Mr. Wilson to succeed ; all want to get out of him, and help him to work out, everything there is in him that will do the country good. He is a person very much out of com- mon. We hope he is going to make a great President. Good luck to him! ry, HE deaths of Captain Scott and his comrades have made sad_read- ing, albeit glorified by a record of fortitude and gallantry. There is some comfort in the news that the records of all his painful ex- plorations have been recovered. That will make it by so much the less neces- sary for new expeditions to go to the South Pole. It is a mighty poor place; no more hospitable than the other pole, and less interesting. comicbooks.com