"The men who grow, the men who think better a year after they are put in office than they thought when they were put in balance wheel of the whole thing.

office, are the

They are the

ballast that enables the craft to carry sail and to make a port in the long run, no matter what the weather is."

But looking back over the years that have intervened since he was inaugurated, he spoke feelingly of the crises through which he had come and of the hostile criticism of him from men who had differed with him. It came as a sort of public confession to the newspaper men of Washington:

"I have come through the fire," he said, "since I talked to you last. Whether the metal is purer than it was, God only knows. But the fire has been there, the fire has penetrated every part of it, and if I may believe my own thoughts, I have less partisan feeling, more impatience of party maneuver, more enthusiasm for the right thing, no matter whom it hurts, than I ever had before in my life.'

APPENDIX

SELECTIONS FROM WOODROW WILSON'S PUBLIC ADDRESSES

THE SPIRIT OF PENN

"I cannot help thinking of William Penn as a sort of spiritual knight who went out upon his adventures to carry the torch that had been put into his hands, so that other men might have the path illuminated for them which led to justice and liberty. I cannot admit that a man establishes his right to call himself a college graduate by showing me his diploma. The only way he can prove it is by showing that his eyes are lifted to some horizon which other men less instructed than he have not been privileged to see. Unless he carries freight of the spirit, he has not been bred where spirits are bred.

“This man Penn, representing the sweet enterprise of the quiet and powerful sect that called themselves Friends, proved his right to the title by being the friend of mankind. He crossed the

ocean, not merely to establish estates in America, but to set up a free commonwealth in America, and to show that he was of the lineage of those who had been bred in the best traditions of the human spirit. I would not be interested in celebrating the memory of William Penn if his conquest had been merely a material one. Sometimes we have been laughed at, by foreigners in particular, for boasting of the size of the American continent, the size of our own domain as a nation; for they have, naturally enough, suggested that we did not make it. But I claim that every race and every man is as big as the thing that he takes possession of, and that the size of America is in some sense a standard of the size and capacity of the American people. And yet the mere extent of the American conquest is not what gives America distinction in the annals of the world, but the professed purpose of the conquest which was to see to it that every foot of this land should be the home of free, self-governed people, who should have no government whatever which did not rest upon the consent of the governed. I would like to believe that all this hemisphere is devoted to the same sacred purpose, and that nowhere can any government endure which is

stained by blood or supported by anything but the consent of the governed.

"The spirit of Penn will not be stayed. You cannot set limits to such knightly adventurers. After their own day is gone, their spirits stalk the world, carrying inspiration everywhere that they go, and reminding men of the lineage, the fine lineage, of those who have sought justice and right."

From Woodrow Wilson's address at Swathmore College, Pennsylvania, October 25, 1913.

JOHN BARRY'S EXAMPLE

"No one can turn to the career of Commodore Barry without feeling a touch of the enthusiasm with which he devoted an originating mind to the great cause which he intended to serve, and it behooves us, living in this age when no man can question the power of the nation, when no man would dare to doubt its right and its determination to act for itself, to ask what it was that filled the hearts of these men when they set the nation up.

"John Barry was an Irishman, but his heart crossed the Atlantic with him. He did not leave it in Ireland. And the test of all of us-for all

of us had our origins on the other side of the sea—is whether we will assist in enabling America to live her separate and independent life, retaining our ancient affections, indeed, but determining everything that we do by the interests that exist on this side of the sea. Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name. This man was not an Irish-American; he was an Irishman who became an American. I venture to say if he voted, he voted with regard to the questions as they looked on this side of the water and not on the other side, and that is my infallible test of a genuine American: that when he votes, or when he acts, or when he fights, his heart and his thought are nowhere but in the center of the emotions and purposes and the policies of the United States.

"This man illustrates for me all the splendid strength which we brought into the country by the magnet of freedom. Men have been drawn to this country by the same thing that has made them love this country: by the opportunity to live their own lives, and to think their own