Why the Democrats Must Go; Or, the Elimination of Inefficiency a Political Tract for the Times, with Four Cartoons (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1914 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X---/-+f Mr. Wilson is certainly not an intellectual man, in the sense that designation is applicable to men like Lord Acton, Mommsen, Stephens, Root, Gladstone, Hamilton, Burr, Sumner, Seward, Hamilton, Cobden, Cavour, Bismarck, Taft, Hay, Thiers. He is rather, in the circumstances where he finds himself, an accidental man, with a journalistic talent, a sharp vocality, a tropical phraseology, and a love for books. He has spent much time in reading, and possesses distinct powers of concentrated mental effort, but he has lived apart from active life, and approaches almost all practical questions from the viewpoint of the imagination. A kind of heraldic beauty of language, with a skill in cadence, makes his writings tuneful. They are not assimilable with deep or exhaustive work. The sentiments are not infrequently commonplaces dressed in metaphor. He was distinctively not the man to meet a great crisis, to solve a complicated problem, or grasp the eventual meaning of political or industrial tendencies, and he has--if the contention of this essay is correct--failed to properly adjust minor ones. But he did possess a quality suitable for his great office, which has, however, worked perversely. He possesses persistency and conviction, though the former appears nervous rather than argumentative, the latter rigid rather than reasonable. His mind works cog-wheel-like with no reversible gearing to help it avoid collisions, by turning into more sensible paths of procedure, and yet because the appeals of political expediency aid the retention of power he made Mr. Bryan Secretary of State, to pay a debt, after he had seriously and compendiously prayed to have him "knocked into a cocked hat." He approved of Free Tolls on the Canal for American coastwise shipping...