E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, Michael, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 29850-h.htm or 29850-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/29850/pg29850-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29850/29850-h.zip) WOODROW WILSON'S ADMINISTRATION AND ACHIEVEMENTS Americanism Patriotism consists in some very practical things--practical in that they belong to the life of every day, that they wear no extraordinary distinction about them, that they are connected with commonplace duty. The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand and know that in performing it we are serving our country.--_From President Wilson's Address at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, July 14, 1914._ WOODROW WILSON'S ADMINISTRATION AND ACHIEVEMENTS _Being a Compilation from the Newspaper Press of Eight Years of the World's Greatest History, particularly as Concerns America, Its People and their Affairs_ by FRANK B. LORD and JAMES WILLIAM BRYAN James William Bryan Press Washington, D.C. Copyright, 1921 by Frank B. Lord and James William Bryan All Rights Reserved CONTENTS _Page_ AMERICANISM--From President Wilson's Independence Hall Address, Philadelphia, July, 1914 2 HISTORY'S PROVING GROUND 7-8 PORTRAIT in typophotogravure of President Wilson at America's Entry in the War--_Charcoal Sketch by Hattie E. Burdette_ 10 WOODROW WILSON'S ADMINISTRATION--Eight Years of the World's Greatest History--_Courtesy of the New York Times_ 11-69 EARLY ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF ADMINISTRATION 15 FOREIGN POLICIES, 1913-1914 22 LANDMARKS IN MEXICAN POLICY 23 APPEALS FOR MEDIATION 30 THE EUROPEAN WAR, 1914-1916 30 FEDERAL RESERVE--From President Wilson's Address to Congress, April, 1913 31 TYPOPHOTOGRAVURE of Governor Woodrow Wilson and Joseph P. Tumulty with Newspaper Men, 1912 32 SENATOR GLASS ON WOODROW WILSON, 1921--_Courtesy of the New York Times_ 36 PERSONAL MESSAGES TO CONGRESS from President Wilson's First Address to Congress, April 8, 1913 39 TYPOPHOTOGRAVURE of President Wilson Reading First Message to Congress, April 8, 1913 40