The Tomahawk., 1920-12-16
President, in Message to Con-
\ gress Asks Immediate Inde-
pendence for Philippines.
URGES AID TO ARMENIA
Budget Law and Rehabilitation Of Dis
abIed Soldiers Recommended
Legislation to Cut Living
Costs Advocated.

!. Washington President Wilson's
concrete recommendations to congress
In his annual message were:
| Revision Of the tax laws, with
simplif1cation of the income and
profits taxes.
independence for the Philip
pines.
| - A loan to Armenia
Economy in government appro-
priations and expenditures and cre-
alton "of a workable budget sys-
tenn"
Cold storage and other laws at
fecting the cost Of living, and the
federal licensing of corporations
as recommended in previous mes
sages.
Rehabilitation and training Of
disabled soldiers and sailors.
The president did not endorse a
bonus for the soldiers.
Nowhere did the president refer to
the League of Nations or the peace
ence in his opening when he quoted
Abraham Lincoln's 'let us have faith
that right makes might and that faith
let Ms dare to do our duty as we I'M
| derstand it."
The presidents message was trans
mitted by messenger, the president
adhering to- his decision not to address
congress in person. -
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
President Wilson's annual message
to congress follows:
when I addressed myself to per-
forming the duty laid upon the presi-
dent by the constitution to present to
you an annual report on the state Of
union, found my thought dominated
by an immortal sentence of Abraham
Lincoln's: Let us have faith that
right makes might, and in that faith
let us dare to do our duty as we un.
derstand it-A sentence immortal be-
cause it embodies in form of utter
simplicity and purity the essentiaffaith
of the nation, the faith in which it
was conceived and the faith in which
it has grown to glory and power with
that faith and the birth of nation
founded upon it came the nope into
the world that new order would pre-
vail throughout the affairs of mankind,
an order in which reason and right
would take precedence of coveteous
ness and force, and,
II believe that I express the wish
and purpose of every thoughtful Amer
lean when I say that this sentence
marks for us in the plainest manner
the part we should play alike
in hn NJ in
affairs and in our exercise of influence
upon the affairs of the world. BY this
faith, and by this faith alone can the
world be lifted out of it's present con-
fusion and despair. 1t was this faith
which prevailed over the wicked force
of Germany. You will remember that
the beginning of the end of the war
came when the German people found
themselves face to face with the con-
science of the. world and realized that
right was everywhere arrayed against
the wrong that their government was
attempting to perpetrate. think,
therefore, that it is true to say that
this was the faith which won the war,
Certainly this is the faith with which
our gallant men went into the field
and out on the seas to make sure of
victory.
Democracy Put to Test Now.
This is the mission upon which de-
mocracy came into the world Democ.
racy is an assertion of the right OF the
individual to live and to be treated
Justly as against any attempt on the
part of any combination Of individuals
to make laws which will overburden
him or which will destroy his equality
al in hn nj
right or privilege and I think we all
realize that the day has come when de-
mocracy is being put upon it's final
test. The old world is just now suffer
ing from a wanton rejection of the
principle of democracy and a substitu-
ton of the principle of autocracy as
asserted in the name, but without the
authority and sanction of the multi.
tude. This is the time of all others
when democracy should prove it's pur-
| ity and it's spiritual power TO prevail.
! It is surely the manifest destiny of the
United States to lead in the attempt
| to make this spirit prevail.
There are two ways in which the
United States can assist to accomplish
this great object; first, by Offering the
example within her own borders of the
will and power of democracy to make
| and enforce laws which are unques
! tionably just and which are equal in
their Observation-Disclosures which Sc
cure its full rights, to labor and yet at
the same time safeguard the integrity
of property, and particularly of that
property which is devoted to the devel
opment of industry and the increase OF
the necessary wealth of the world
Second, by standing for right and JUS
tice as toward individual nations. The
law of democracy is for the protection
of the weak, and the influence OF
every democracy in the world should
/! be for the protection of the weak ma
| tfon, the nation which is struggling
! toward its rights and toward its prop
err recognition and privilege in thu
family of nations. The United State:
cannot refuse this role of champion
without putting the stigma of rejec
ton upon the great and devoted meI
who brought its government into ex
| istenae and established it in the face
of almost universal opposition and IN
4 trigue even in the face of WantOT