" Those who violated the law were imprisoned or fined, and "...even mainstream publications were censored or banned," if they had the audacity to challenge the government on the war effort.

Why was Wilson, in the end, defeated by democracy? Wilson tried very hard to get his League of Nations proposal passed, and toured the country from coast to coast in a train when he was desperately ill to drum up support. And Wilson worked so hard in Paris at the 1919 peace conference that a reporter covering his movements, Ray Stannard Baker (whose article is quoted in www.woodrowwilson.org, the presidential library), wrote: "Once, as is well-known, he broke down entirely and was ill in bed for several days at a very critical moment in the peace conference. Yet such was his power of self-discipline...that he recuperated swiftly, and each morning seemed as full of energy and as eager to...
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