The Stratford Evening Post. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1913. A GREAT OFFICE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 63, 19 March 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1913. A GREAT OFFICE.

Very few people in this country, at any rate, have any idea of the vast powers exercised hy a President of the United States of America. Out writer tells us that the powers of a French President, an English Monarch, or a German Emperor are not to he compared with those which are not nominally but actually and actively vested in a United States President, and goes on to point out that he lias a veto on all laws passed by Congress, and ho has not hitherto failed to use it; he can and has made peace and war, and in both departments of Presidential activity his right to do so is unquestioned. Mr Wilson is the twenty-eighth President since George Washington, who was the first citizen and practical ruler of some 4,000,000 people, including 750,000 coloured men and women nearly ail of whom were slaves. But Mi- Woodrow Wilson to-day is President over 92,000,000, nearly ten million of this number belonging to the coloured race, but none of them slaves in the sense they were in Washington’s day. In the century and a quarter which has passed since then, the United -States has expanded and progressed until to-day it presents .the greatest example of democratic self-government the world has seen. There are those amongst the world’s thinkers and writers who are convinced that it is to this great Republic rather than to Europe that the world must look for the ultimate solution of some of the great social problems that have hitherto baffled all

governments in every land. America’s new Pies.dent gives promise of many things, not least of which is tho example he is setting of that great simplicity of life which has once America’s pride.