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Show Hpy PRESIDENT WILSON'S JAUNT. TO the lay mind it is' incomprehensible why President Wilson, having decided to attend the peace conference, should have ap- Hl pointed any delegates. He at least knows how much deeper and Kf more profound he is than any or all of the others he has named, HUg and as it is no trick for him to overthrow traditions, why did he not Hl quietly explain in one of these familiar White House bulletins, that H$ he was going alone because no matter how Democratic he might have 'Igi been in making the world free for the Democrats, that his soul rested HgK serenely on a higher plane than theirs, that if civilization is to be Hp tolerable it is entirely up to him, and that there would be no neces- f sity for anyone else to attend the Peace Conference. His admirers would have taken the explanation as a matter of m course, and-others would have accepted the statement with the usual K awe that has been manifested every time his ink or oratory has been ' .; called upon when it seemed to be the psychological time for limelight Jf, and laudation. UP What in the world will our delegates to the conference have to HK do with President Wilson present? Had he dispensed with the others Ku such an act might also have obviated the necessity of taking along his Hf1 princely retinue including the fifty cooks that accompanied him on Vi the George Washington. We wonder how many thousands during H; the war let one cook go as part of their financial sacrifice. j President Wilson's policies must be supreme, and he has stated V that he does not want to be embarrassed in carrying them out. Ap- H j parently defeat can embarrass him, as evidenced in the late con- A gressional elections. H I Of course his superiority over everyone at the peace table will H readily be manifested ; in the presence of the professor, their elemen- H'j tary schooling will result in a complete expose of their mediocrity, H and for that reason we cannot understand the necessity for such a Hl , gathering so long as Mr. Wilson is on the job. H j It would be taking too much for granted to assume that our dele- H ! gates could be trusted to properly represent America at the confer- Hr' ence without the presence of Mr. Wilson, so why they were ever Hf appointed will remain a mystery. Their inferiority is perfectly clear Hm in the president's mind, and it should be in the minds' of the American Ry people. tl We do not know that the president has any quarrel with God for H. failing to endow others with sufficient intelligence to cope with the Hf situation, but in any event his plain duty was to stay in Washington Hiv during this momentous session of congress, and turn a deaf ear to Hjl the siren call of Pomp, instead of planning to take advantage of an H opportunity to display his pedantry. Hg Woodrow Wilson is riding to a fall, and the third leg of the HL trip is being made aboard a transport headed for bleeding France. |