Show PRESIDENT WILSON I TEKE E President Wilson's Wilsons self erected of oE w WF lowar degree and his home mado atmosphere o of political I piety iet less striking the patronage c cI raids of his eho chosen advisors and lieutenants would I excite only amusement whore whom they now nov inspire disI dis dis- dis- dis I I I gust gustS The policies of his hig department chiefs a n. band of political unequaled since Rince J Jacksons Jackson's dR day are re in amazing contrast to the ostensible principles of their leader leador Were it possible for the President to bo ho i ignorant orant of their actions one might only wonder wonder wonder won won- der at his obtuseness but since it is impossible that they should be contravening nin e every everyone ery one of his supposed supposed supposed sup sup- posed political principles without his knowledge and andI I approval the thc conclusion is ine inevitable that the country is 13 being treated to a. a i. i spectacle of self righteous h hypocrisy hy by- unknown in its ita history t Entering otheo as n t blatant advocate oi ot CIVIl I service reform and a R. bitter enemy of the spoils tern Mr Wilson's Wilsons first step across the threshold of I I the White House Honse was a signal for an unprecedented I raid upon the classified service assuming the lofty I ground that the publio public business should d be transacted I in the glorious light of day no administration before I him was as more secretive pretending to believe sinI sincerely sincerely sin- sin I in representative go government and in the thc maxim I that thai the people shall rule ho has reduced House and t. t Senate to mere humble registers of his imperious t will and has practically abolished the legislative de- de I t From the moment that the disreputable DemoI Demo Demo- I machine in New Jersey recognized Mr ViII Wilsons Wilson's Wil- Wil j I sons son's usefulness to it and catapulted him into polI politics pol pol- he has walked waked with his head among the stars I declaiming in chaste and elegant diction a R sot set of principles that would u usher hor in the millennium yet yetI et ett t I no executive before him ever surrendered so 50 quickly 1 to blundering or or 1 worse in worse in an important department depart- depart I ment of g government or so 80 thoroughly played practical tied politics in everything that the term implies The Tho employ in disI discussing dis dis- dis- dis laws S that limit the language one may I cussing cusing ng tho official to whom every overy American owes respect characterizing his bis attitude in the only I diction that it ii deserves or that would paint an ade- ade t quate of it MONUMENTAL SELF-LOVE SELF t OF of oi judgment mB may my be condoned and forI forgiven forgiven for- for I gi given n those who accept their honors with humility humility ity and their own shortcomings To the straightforward American who climbs upward to tho the f presidency and shoulders its responsibilities with the tho simple premise to do his best much can be pa par par- rf r- r 1 f j w we accept his hia mistakes as RS tho thoo of one who is neither omniscient nor omnipotent we reflect that thatto thatto lat I to err is human If he is tempted and falls we re- re regret re ye- gret and assist u st him to rise if dc designing advisers rs gain I his C confidence nce to betray it it we sympathize end and reI remember remember re re- re- re member that one must needs trust his friends friend But ButI I I Woodrow Wilson deserves e none Done of the charity we c eXtend extend ex eX- tend to those of common clay for he hc assumes to bet bo ho t fiber the man that m mounts the thc Highest I horse gets the least sympathy s when he falls fails Mr fr Wilson occupied ostensible hi high h ground from I the b beginning he lIe was not of the earth carth carth earthy The dross s of or politics polities he promised to remove only would he handle the pure gold of efficient honest hone incorruptible I righteous government He believed e himself a n demigod and a great grent mary many of his bis fellow citizens I were deceived cd He assumed that the problems of oft I t public life were as easil easily met and sol solved as aR those of I the thc cloistered cI classroom he hc imposed upon others I I with that impo impossible ible theory The Sermon on the Mount teemed with no greater re l tel t aspiration for right living than 1 Mr r. r Wilson's Wilsons speeches I and his writings the Beatitudes no more beautifully pictured the bliss of the righteous than Mr r. r Wilson I portrayed the tile gorgeous effulgence of go eminent under under un un- der dor his hiB watchful care i A PEOPLE DECEIVED J. J MR R. R WILSON completely convinced a l LYL of the American people that he hc was the Mo Moses es I chosen to lead them from the thc wilderness 9 of 1 a 1 political government into the promised 11 land of oi efficient efficient efficient effi- effi administration where the rules of ri h living Jiving t would be he sC scrupulously observed there thero was to be Le exact and equal justice the were to be bc ejected I the civil chon service exten extended ed the millennium was Vas to be he I ushered in in Did e ever er a public man Irian in our history as asI asa asa I a republic promise so much and accomplish so little I Was there e ever er so 0 o great hypocrisy in high places I President Wilson must accept responsibility r for forthe forthe I the actions action of his cabinet officers his heads of departments departments de de- le- le whatever er they have hac done or left undone his is the thc reckoning their sins of omission anti and commission com coin mission are arc his Passing the Ole suspicious performance I of Attorney General in the Dig Diggs Cam s white slave case and the open subservience to toW W Wall and coddling of the stock-jobbers stock by Secretary See Sec letar of the Treasury McAdoo cAdoo one ne comes cornea to consider con con- sider Postmaster General Burleson Bures n who began his tenure by an unwarranted and unnecessary attack upon his predecessor endeavoring to conceal his wn th shortcomings b by criticising the efficient c officer icer that preceded him Addin Adding thousands of employees to the pa pay rollin roll rollin rollin in order to make room for henchmen Burleson followed fol foI- lowed that with a wholesale rai raid upon th the civil I ice Thirty four thousand competent men in the 1 classified list were removed an and the way paved through a pretended examination to replace them with Democrats Although h subordinate to a chief who declares himself a R civil service reformer and an anI I earnest enemy of the spoil sy system em Burleson has spent l his is time since ince he entered office in seeking new methods methods methods meth meth- of getting Democrats in into jobs J ENTHRONED T THE PHE HE latest case in point i id it that of Postmaster A Arthur G. G Fisk of San Francisco tr r. r Fisk Isone isone is isone one of the time most capable officials in the government go jus his his' office has been brought to the front rank rankin in efficiency Burleson's personal agents after an on exhaustive investigation n were obliged reluctantly to I report everything in ill excellent condition Disregard Disregard- I ing every supposed principle of his superior the Pres Pres- I ident Burl Burleson son demands that Fisk re resign ign in order t that he may give the job to a Democrat Fisk vel very properly refuses to do so be he has been a worthy officer of of- I and claims the right to serve Bene his term The Thc American people are usually ready to endure I with cynical resignation io l the policy that to the victors t belong time the spoils they have always expected it They rhey I did not nott however anticipate that it would be enforced under the administration ration of a President who claimed t I all the virtues of the Creator himself and I climbed upon a pedestal with an invitation in to I all nU to draw n near ar and admire In this administration mi I I of the erstwhile pre president of Princeton ha has been elevated ted to a ft fine art and self righteousness I to the to-the the dignity of I an e executive policy |