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Show "HONEST ABE'S" SUCCESSOR. I ttnpHE heart of the world is under very plain jackets," said Presi- X dent Wilson in a recent speech to the illuminati of France. "Tlie .heart of the world is at very simple firesides. The heart of the world is in very simple circumstances ; and unless you know the pres- sure of v life on the humbler classes, you know nothing of life what- ever." H In his academic fashion, without ever having been in touch with the "heart of the world," Mr. Wilson has arrived afsome very true conclusions. Feted by kings while he was spending millions of thq Bj j hard-earned cash of people in very simple circumstances, Mr. Wilson, B with the eye of a scholar, could sec that the heart of the world B 1 I was beating1 under very plain jackets. And in that aloof way of his K he wanted the kings, the princes and the aristocratic diplomats to B ' make the world safe for democracy and the democratic party. B i For these many years the heart of Woodrow Wilson has been HI ' under a frock coat and his brains under either a mortar-board or a HI high silk hat. For the last six months he has been cavorting about Hj i i western Europe with royalty and Mrs. Wilson and he have heard HI their own hearts beat exultingly as they sat beside kings and queens H and munched upon viands served from gold plate. He helped to ac- H centuate the pressure of life on the people by presenting to congress H a bill of $5,000,000 to cover the expenses of his last trip. What the H next bill will be the people in "simple circumstances" can timidily H conjecture. In it they are to find, no doubt, one item of $1,000,000 for H ; the renovation of the Hotel Crillon the Paris White House. And H when the full bill is presented the heart of the people in simple cir- H cumstances will be beating more violently than ever under plain H jackets. In fact, the jackets are getting plainer and plainer as the H administration's bills get bigger and bigger. Hi - It may be edifying and instructive to recall the simple life of the H Democratic "Lincoln." He looked out upon the humbler classes H from a charming coign of vantage in his boyhood when they tramped H i by with books and slates to the' public schools while "he prepared for H - college with private tutors." He entered Davidson college at 18 years H of age and from 1874 to 1902, with the exception of two years of law H practice in Atlanta, he kept himself in touch with the heart of the I world in the secluded environs of exclusive, and in some instances aristocratic, universities Princeton, Virginia, John Hopkins, Bryn Mawr, Wesleyan, and then Princeton again. His biography tells us H that in 1885 he married the daughter of "a distinguished family of Hj ( Savannah, Ga.," who passed away in 1914, one who was quite as Hf ; charming, estimable and accomplished as any member of her dis- H tinguished family. In 1915 he married a rich Washingtonian, who Hi claims Princess Pocohontas as one of her ancestors. Hf In this way Mr. Wilson has come into absent-treatment touch Hl t with the plain jackets of the world or, perhaps, into closer touch when HI j playing his favorite game of golf while humble caddies have searched HI the lanes and by-ways for the elusive ball. Ifir f 5K 3K 5K |