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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
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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
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after the holidays the
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It is definitely concluded by
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"In addition to advising farmers
to hold their cotton, I would advise
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of the farmers today is held, it will
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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
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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.
"They felt that this might be the
president's final appeal to the conscience
of his countrymen in the supreme
moral decision that they are
called upon to make."
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