Life — June 24, 1920 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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encouraging to discover the Puritan spiritual aspiration emerging even from wealth. Out of the richest families of that stock there are liable to spring people whose feet are planted as by hands in the paths of righteousness, and unseen whose faces are turned by an instinct that seems to he outside of their own wills to the light that does not fade. are not rare, and they Such instances sustain one's confi- dence in the controlling stock that is in the American people. They console one when the political leaders make mistakes and the crowd seems to be groveling away after little things. They give one confidence even about political conventions—t of them will come either had that the people won't have it, or The Puritan spirit, the spirit that brought men to Mas something so something good enough to win. achusetts Bay in order to. ‘say cir prayers more conveniently, is like the steel rods that builders run through concrete walls to hold them together and -LIFE. keep them stan Ail manner of thir have been mixed into our national crete, including many valuable elements that are not of Puritan derivation, but those Puritan rods are still in place and performing their R. WILSON stock is not of the Purit On his father's side at least he derives from a much later importation But he is a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian, and ritan int and it is s paper as a Presbyterian Jefferson. true that he has linked Jefferse revolutionary impatience r THE UNINSTRUCTED DELEGATE Wi7l conventions is to deal with situati and with purposes which have come from him He has not himself been able to carry out his purposes. In the form in which he has offered them, they may have defects, them, but whichever party, if cither of ventures to trample on them and throw them takes in having to reckon h the that lies deey call ide, heavy responsibility inexorable and Puritan iration potent in the mixture that our country. That responsibility the Republican Con- vention seems to have taken. As Lire goes to press platform that is satisfactory to Lodge. The headline in Mr. m reads: “JoNNSON WINS PLANK Wirsox Lact the pl docs. s the the League. news is in its Johnson Hearst's REJECTING and that is that nations which i It adds that the Re who beat the sublica Treaty in the formed their duty faithfu' “their conde their courage and fidelity.” What else happens greatly stands, prove,” it says, nes Not matter if what | h. Whether this runs on the platform that contains that ypened nor that man plank is a matter of no vital concern he papers speak of Gee Harvey one of ti ificers of the pla The that goes Colonel Harvey's Democrats do of William Hearst. Writing of the Jackson dinner last winter, and affirming that platform it is part of and the ticket with will doubtless have supp if the that their duty, ably reaty to the was impossible to Vilson said rewrite it, President “Tf there is any doubt as to what the people of the country thir on this vital matter, the clear and way out is to submit it for dete at the next election to the voters of the nination nation.” To hearers tired ¢ with the squabbles in the that was a most unwelec All the same, it is coming the Rey Senate over the Treaty, estion, What akes the to pas have done m course of the Der Fran- cisco clear and casy. comicbooks.com