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Show EDITORIAL - CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE Reading in President Coolid-ge's Coolid-ge's address of which we commented com-mented on in this colum last week, his earnest plea for the cooperation of this nation with the other nations of the world looking to universal peace, one-can one-can almost look back and see tht late Woodrow Wilson making practically the same plea in 191C and 20, and for which he was crucified on the altar of bitter partisanship, led by the chieftains chief-tains of the same party of which President Coolidge is now the head. The President is to be commended for the soundness of his position and for the directness di-rectness and sincerity of his ex- prassion. He has caught the tide of popular thought throughout America, for the ideals of Mr. Wilson, for which he sacrificed health, and finally his life, have gripped the people of the whole world, and in no country more than America. Lodge is dead, Drandegee died by his own hand Johnson has lost his influence and fails even to hold his own party colleagues to the floor of the Senate when he speaks. Ueed of Missouri is in the same position po-sition as Johnson of California. His oratory no longer thrills nor does his satire amuse as of yore, and even Borah is steadily leaning lean-ing toward the current of popular popu-lar thought. The party that crucified cru-cified the great democratic war president, because he was a democrat, dem-ocrat, has now thru its head taken tak-en up the task where he was forced to lay it down, which seems a faithful reflection of the will of the American people. To acknowledge wrong and to right-face-about to the right is the highest evidence of an honest hon-est purpose. |
