Woodrow Wilson's administration and achievements-James William Bryan
THE MODERN newspaper through its intensive, minute and zealous activities in searching out, presenting and
interpreting each day the news of the entire world, is tracing with unerring accuracy the true and permanent
picture of the present. This picture will endure as undisputed history for all time.
Let us concede that the newspaper writer sometimes, in the passion of the hour, goes far afield. It is equally true that no
statement of importance can thus be made that is not immediately challenged, answered and reanswered until, through
the fierce fires of controversy the dross is burned away and the gold of established fact remains. Not alone the fact
stands out, but also the world's immediate reaction to that fact, the psychology of the event and the man dominating the
cause and the effect.
The modern newspaper is the proving ground of history. To illustrate let us suppose that our newspaper press, as we
know it today, had existed in Shakespeare's time. Would there now be any controversy over the authorship of the world's
greatest dramas?
Could the staff photographer of a Sunday supplement as efficient as one of our present day corps have snapped
Mohammed in his tent and a keen reporter of today's type questioned him as to his facts and data, would not all of us
now be Mohammedans or Mohammed be forgot? Had such newspapers as ours followed Washington to Valley Forge
and gone with him to meet Cornwallis, would the father of his country be most intimately remembered through the cherry
tree episode? Consider the enlightenment which would have been thrown upon the pages of history had a corps of
modern newspaper correspondents reported the meeting of John and the Barons at Runnymede or accompanied
Columbus on his voyages of discovery.
Would not even Lincoln be more vivid in our minds and what we really know of him not so shrouded in anecdote and
story?
In Washington's time America became a Nation. In Lincoln's time our country was united and made one. In Wilson's time
our Nation received recognition as the greatest of the world powers. It remained, however, for Wilson alone to reach the
highest pinnacle of international prominence in the face of the pitiless cross fires of today's newspaper press. Yet this
inquisition, often more than cruel, was not without its constructive value, for it has searched out every fact and
established every truth beyond the successful attack of any future denial.
This little volume—the first perhaps of its kind concerning any man or event—presents with no further word of its
compilers a summary of Woodrow Wilson's Administration and Achievements—eight years of the world's greatest history
—taken entirely from the newspaper press.
It contains not one statement that has not been accurately weighed in the critical scales of controversy. Its object is
simply to present the truth and have this truth early in the field so that the political canard which was so shamelessly
indulged in during the close of the Wilson Administration may not be crystalized in the public mind and cloud for a time
the glorious luster of his name.
It shall be as Maximilian Harden, the keenest thinker of the defeated Germans said: "Only one conqueror's work will
endure—Wilson's thought."
Frank B. Lord and
James William Bryan
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ISBN: 978-625-6699-04-5
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Aralık 2023
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