Life — January 16, 1919 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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World: pos't you THINK \ FEW man—not always accurately honest in word, but honest in purpose. And he was full of love, so that, as said, he could not even hate his enemies for long. No one had an impulse so gal- lant or unselfish, but what something in him came out and took it by the and. He had the power of embra and capturing the spirits of his asso- ciates in a mych higher degree than ALTEKATIUNS ARE NECESSARY, WOOvROW ? Mr. Wilson has. Mr. Wilson has very little of that. He loves his fellow men, but he has always found it hard to make them feel it. He has shown more signs of gaining that power since he went to Europe than ever before. He had been a man alone, thinking by himself, planning universal brotherhood in solitude But Roosevelt was offhand a universal 89 brother, People loved him, and he loved them. His heart was as big s nient store. able in some ways. He could remember wonderfully, He could read wonder- fully. He could pick men, lead men, and make quick decisions But in statesmanship it was not a mind that could reach as far as Mr Wilson's. Wilson sees things 1 beyond Roosevelt's powers of vision Roosevelt, doubtless, would have seen them if he could, but he couldn't. Yet, for what he had, and in spite of what he lacked, he came to represent the forward-looking element in the Repub: lican party. At least he turned away from the trough and went after what looked to him like rightec tired of the adepart- His mind was very remark- at were sness, and Republicans who were righteousness, fol- They trough, and loved lowed him and split the party had to. There They followed him to party ruin, but they could not help it. Better party ruin than the trough and selfish, played-out was no one clse policies. He was an actor, in a Chatham was), and not always above clap-trap, and had minor weaknesses that were amusing and endearing, but in the real substance of his character he was a noble man, and upright in all In his morals and affections he was unassailable. We shall have statues of him, afoot and on horse- back, if we can produce the sculptors to make them, and they will be pic- turesque and adorn the land. Great crises produce great men. One of ours way (as relations is now finished and ready for the his- torian; the other is still making Men come and live and go on their last journey, and we sigh and drop a tear, may be, and go back to our con cerns and trudge on towards our own last journey. Our matters, such as they are, cannot wait long on mourning. anil the newspapers soon stop paying their tribute of headlines to even the most memorable dead But we shall longer than ordinary nel much Never a mat of us was so actively in life in so many ways. Never a man so untiringly re- sponsive to friendship, so unforgetting so intensely concerned with a thou- sand things, from kir A wonderful man gs to hedge who never missed anything he could reach, and carved out naturally a wonderful career! comicbooks.com