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PRESIDENT IN COLLAPSE. Impressive Picture of Stricken Chief Executive. After the delegation of fifteen proleague Republicans made their visit to President Wilson recently, Hamilton Holt, leader of the group, issued a statement which shocked the country because of its description of Mr. Wilson's appearance and dejected manner. Five other members of the delegation were asked subsequently to describe the visit and the president. Their statements as published in the | New York Times, were as follows: f Mrs. Schuyler N. Warren, of New York: "I am not young. I have had many solemn moments in my life, but I can assure you that, when we stood in the presence of President Wilson in that room at the White House, 1 consider it the most solemn moment in my life. The men with us stood with tears ID. tlltJir c> iu Liicr picocuvc \jj. this great man, stricken, aged, worn, and yet with not a line in his face that showed bitterness, rancor or malice. He had but one thought, and dream, in his heart. There was no bitterness left toward his enemies. He seemed far away from the vanity and folly of the world, as if he were just living to see the ideal accomplished. "If the people who revile him could just see him as he sat in his wheel chair?if he could be transported to Carnegie Hall just as he is today for the whole world to see?a man suffering, aged, and yet burning with zeal for this great ideal, I don't believe he would have an enemy in the world. "The change that I saw, the thing that crushed me so, was to see how ^ President Wilson, from a comparatively young man as I saw him last, had been converted into an old, old man?not broken, but old! That to ; me is the tragedy and cruel thing. As he sat there, he seemed to me to represent all that is highest in American life, in the American character. It was tragic in the sense that you saw there a man who had so suffered, and glorious that America had produced such a man. Like a Page in History. "It seemed like a page in history. "The delegation had walked through the streets to the White House so quietly, through the gates that had been opened for us, and with our hearts beating high had been ushered into the room where President Wilson was sitting, and had stood listening to him as he read his message to the country. I can only ^ say as one of the men said when he came out, that it seemed as if we had been present at some great religious ceremony, that it was holy ground." The Rev. Dr. Arthur J. Brown, of New York: "I was shocked by the president's appearance. I expected, of course to find that his illness had resulted in * some abatement of his former physical strength, but I had been led "by public reports to believe that he * had regained a large portion of his virility. Instead of this, we found a broken man, his face was drawn and haggard, his eyes were dull, his voice was low and weak. It was pathetic to f see that once splendidly alert and vigorous man so completely shattered. We gained the impression, too, that he was not only "broken in health, but t that he was heartbroken, over the humilating position into which partison and personal enemies had had brought our country, delaying the realization of that great consummation of the League of Nations for which he toiled so hard and sacrificed so much. "I am sure that the American peok pie do not realize, as I had not before, that the president of the United States is a stricken man. As I stood there within four feet of him, I had an inexpressibly solemn feeling that the words that he was speaking might be his farewell words to his country. He must know that near the end of his second term and in his enfeebled L health his public career is drawing to r / itc nlnse. I think his address should f / be interpreted in the light of this fact. More than once his voice choked, especially when he referred to the soldier boys and the mothers of those who had fallen in battle. It was evident that he was voicing the profoundest emotions of his heart. The whole occasion was impressibly solemn and tender. "We left the white house feeling that we had witnessed a scene of what may prove to be of historic significance, a scene in which the splendor of a great mind and spirit that triumphed for a moment over physical weakness and pain, but that the lamp of physical ilfe was burning dangerously low. It was one of the most moving experiences of my life." r O Dramatic Scene. George K. Hunton of New York: 'T feel as I would have felt if I had been privileged to hear President Lincoln read the Emancipation Proclamation. I have no words to describe the ** touching scene before this man who t has spent his strength, his health, and sacrificed his whole physical well-being for the thing that is nearest his heart. He sat there in his wheel chair like a wounded soldier, only too anxious to keep up the fight to the last by explaining and clarifying the issue for American citizens. When he alluded to the loss-of lives during the war, his voice not only faltered, but very perceptibly broke. He was overcome by a tenderness and feeling that you would hardly expect in a public man. And as he sat there beneath the picture of Lincoln, I felt that the Great Emancipator was looking down and indorsing the man and his message. "If Woodrow Wilson isn't sincere, we have never had a .public man that was sincere. I think the privilege of witnessing such a dramatic scene is the culmination of the fight around the issue that is an epoch in American history is the biggest thing that has ever happened to me." Joseph M. Price of New York: "I feel that the man has simply laid down his life for the things he believed in. If the people of the country could realize what he has gone through I believe such a wave of sympathy would sweep over the country that all the rancor would disappear overnight. "It was a horrible shock to see President Wilson. Probably to those who have been with him constantly the change has not seemed so tremendous, and probably he has been a great deal worse than he is now, but the physical change in the man is something of which the people of the country have absolutely no realiza tion. At times when he was reading his address I didn't think he could finish. He feels so much about this subject to the League of Nations! He really feels that it is the one hope of the world for peace. Utterly Broken. "To those who remember him as he was when his voice was alert and clear and keen, the sight of him as he is now, is shocking. He is really broken, and I feel that he has martyred himself for the great cause. People have no idea of the terrific strain he has been under, and particularly the strain of the last two years. In Paris Mr. Wilson put in a tremendous effort to put across the League of Nations. People have no idea how he has worked. "The hatred of Wilson is to me incomprehensible. He stands now just where he has always stood? where he stood when the people acclaimed him a few months ago. He has not changed. Their point of view may have changed, poisoned by the deliberate conspiracy of Republican senators. I haven't a doubt that the treaty would have been ratified in a month if it had not been a presidential election year. I havfe seen a number of campaigns. In 1913 I conducted the mayoralty campaign for Mitchell against Tammany Hall, and I have never seen a campaign where tnere was as mucn misrepresentation and lying as there has been in this one." John Bates Clark, professor of economics at Columbia University: "In a general way everybody's impression was alike. The president was easily fatigued, and his strength was not ag great as we had hoped to find it. I feel that he has almost martyred himself in a great cause in which we profoundly believe. The tremendous crucial hour at the close of the war would not have bound the nations so closely together but for the presence of a great man who has lost his health, his endurance in working for the cause. We all felt very sympathetic, solemn and sorrowful. "I think the wrong impression has been given out when it is said that his voice was inaudible. My own hearing is imperfect, and I could hear everything he said. He greeted quite a number of us whom he knew by name, and had some kindly word for all. His voice was firm and clear, and the old light that we remember was upon his face. In reading, his : ? a ^.4 _ ^ vuxctJ was xxaiux ax axxu snuxxg ai ixxe beginning of the paragraphs, but at the end of each paragraph, if it was long, his voice grew feeble. Then he would start out again clearly. His voice has not gone. "We can stand across the ocean and look at this league and refuse to go in, if we will, but whether we accept this league or not it is ac-j cepted by pretty much all the world.; The time will come when we shall see what a great man the president was* who was chiefly responsible for its existence. The period of abuse will pass as it did in Washington's time, and the memory of Wilson will be honored and loved." .Mr. Holt's statement on Wednesday, just after the deviation had left the White House, was as follows: * "The members of the deputation were deeply touched by the physical appearance of the president, who received them sitting and plainly showed the effects of his long illness and the tremendous strain which he has WOULD NOT PLANT COTTON. Heflin Sees High Prices for Staple, If Farmers Hold Crop. Washington, Dec. 2G.?The advice which W. A. Winburn, president of the Central of Georgia railroad, extends to farmers, namely, that they sell their cotton and philosophically pocket whatever losses accrue in the transaction, is termed as ridiculous by Senator J. Thomas Heflin. "Mr. Winburn," observed the senator, "evidently looks at the situation solely from the standpoint of transaction. His argument that any number of bales carried over will depress the next year's crop is absurd for the fact that the next crop will not be one-half as great as this year's crop. "There is no question but that immediately after the holidays the value of cotton will materially increase. It is definitely concluded by Southern producers to reduce their acreage another year by half. There will not be sufficient cotton for the requirements of the world. The price will range between 4 0 and 50 cents. "In addition to advising farmers to hold their cotton, I would advise them to produce no cotton next season. If that which is in the hands of the farmers today is held, it will bring perhaps $1 per pound, and will result in a profit as great as that to be obtained from three crops of normal proportions." SAYS FERTILIZERS HIGH. Commission Asked to Investigate Present Prices. Washington, Dec. 23.?A resolution was introduced in the house yesterday by Representative Bland, of Virginia, directing the Federal Trade PAmmipuinn innniro 'l'-ntn tVlO nri^P \JUlUlLLXOOiVXl UV/ I ii 4 u i i V/ Aiiuv tiJ-v aw of fertilizers. The resolution directs the commission to ascertain the manufacturers' cost and selling prices and the retailers' cost and selling prices for the years 1918, 1919 and 1920 and to report the result at the earliest convenient date with a view to having the house adopt proper measures to reduce the cost of these articles to the producers of food supplies. It is declared in the preamble of the resolution that the prices of fertilizers are now entirely out of proportion to the prices of other commodities. been carrying. He read from a manuscript his reply to the address of the deputation and was greatly moved as he did so. "More than once his voice choked, especially when he referred to the soldier boys and the mothers of those who had fallen in 'battle. It was evident that he was voicing the profoundest emotions of his heart. The whole occasion was inexpressibly solemn and tender. "It was evident that the president's intellectual powers were in no way impaired, but the deputation felt that it was nothing less than sad that the great president of the United States should have been brought to such a stricken physical condition as the result of his indefatigable labors for .his country and for humanity. 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