Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-21 | Page 6 | Wilson Determined

WILSON DETERMINED. Like a great many other men, President Presi-dent Wilson is terribly ' ' sot in his ways, and, having made up his mind that it is absolutely necessary for him to go to Europe to bring about a league of nations for the purpose of insuring t ho future peace of the world, he will not be balked by adverse criticism. Mr, Wilson, no doubt, believes that the war will havo been fought in vain unless the league plan is put through, and millions mil-lions of other people hold to the same opinion. This is more particularly true of the middle and lower classes of Europeans. Eu-ropeans. The upper classes have no particular love for democracy, and, now that tlie war has been won by the United States and the entente, it may be that some of the European delegates to the peace conference would rather return to the old system tha n to a t-tempt t-tempt to give ifL and force to Mr. Wilson Wil-son 's fourteen points. At any rate, the president thinks he sees danger ahead, and has determined to attend the peace conference and remai n u tit il the work is concluded. It is the situation in a nutshell.1 If : the president believed his fourteen points would have plain sailing, it is hardly probable he would cross the ocean during an important session of congress in order to fight for them. So we take it for granted that he scents danger and is preparing to rush forth to battle. As the constitution is silent upon the subject, there are no" legal objections ob-jections to the proposed trip of the president, but there will be some criticism, criti-cism, nevertheless. Some of the criticism criti-cism will be based upon high grounds and some of it will be malicious. But, apparently, Mr. Wilson's mind is made up and he will not deviate from tbe course marked out.