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Show ILLNESS OF THE PRESIDENT. All sincere frienOc of this country will regret the serious illness which is upon Woodrow Wilson. As President of the United St-'es, the man who is now stricken has performed per-formed a task almost beyond 'he power pow-er of an individual, and he deserves well of a merciful Guiding Hana and of the American people. Since the beginning ef the great war. President Wilson has been heavily burdened The strain that has been upon him has tugged not only at his ohFical strength but at his heart. No man of soul could go through i hat which has been experienced by President Presi-dent Wilson and not have every vibrant vi-brant chord in his make up touched. Without measuring hi work in ihe terms of success, we all must concede tbe work has been tremendously great, j complex and difficult. That the President Presi-dent has been devoted to the duties before be-fore him no one can deny. His efforts have been heculean and tirelessly has he labored for his beloved land. If his affllcation proves fatal, many a man and woman, looking back, will regret re-gret the reproaches cast and the sting of hate in their words. NO man was more vilified while alive than that lovable, wonderful, generous, soulful, Abraham Lincoln When in-cold in-cold died and hate went out of the minds of his contemners, the sclf-sacri-ficir.g and noble character was given universal praise. It is a peculiar phase of our American Ameri-can public life that partisanism becomes be-comes so intense as to develop some thing approaching mental strabismus. oo |