The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-07
PUT U. S. TO FORE.
Wilson Urges Congress to Make
Democracy Supreme.
Sent Final Message 10 Both
Houses by Messenger.
OFFER EXAMPLE TO WORLD
Fails to Mention League of Ma
tiOnS at All.
Wants Program of Economic
Adjustment Adopted.

Washington. Dec. 7.-President
Wilson today called on congress to
nact a program of legislation which
he said would put the United States
in the forefront of a movement to
make the spiritual power of democ-
racy prevail thruout the world.
In his final regular message to con-
Eress. which was sent to the two
houses today by messenger. the presi-
dent said there are two ways in which
the United States can lead in estab-
fishing the doctrine of right makes
might" in the world. These ways, he
an!1. arc:
81. BY offering the example
w.tl.n our own borders of the will
and power of democracy to make
and enforce laws which are un-
qGost;onably just and which are
c:ual in their administration.
"2. BY standing for right and
justice as toward individual ma
tions."
Says It's Up to Congress.
The president declared that the
display of an immediate disposition on
the part of congress to remedy any in
justices or evils that may have shown
themselves in our own national life
the forces of chaos and tyranny
which are playing so disastrous a part
il the fortunes of free peoples in more
th1n one part of the world
Wilson did not mention the peace
treaty or League of Nations in his
message but submitted the following
pro~r-am to carry out the aims he out
lined;
/. immediate passage of the
budget bill
2 Strictest economy in govern
mcnt appropriations
,. Immediate revision of tax laws.
A. Adequate provision for dis
at.od soldiers and sailors.
:. A government loan to Ar
mc1ia.
6. Granting of independence to
the Philippines.
In addition. the president repeated
recommendations he made in previous
messages urging announcement for
the manufacture of dyestuffs and re-
lated Chemicals; laws controlling cold
storage and requiring rn1Grai licenses
for all corr Ora'ions engacrl III inter-
state commerce as means C1 reduc-
ine the cost OF living.
The Text of Message.
The text of President Wilson's mes
sage follows:
When 1 addressed myself to per-
forming the duty laid upon the presi-
dent by the constitution to present to
yo1 an annual report on the state OF
the Union, I found myself dominated
by an immortal sentence of Abraham
LincOln's. Let us have faith that right
makes right. and in that faith let us
dare to do our duty as we understand
it," a sentence immortal because II
embodies in form of utter simplicity
and purity the essential state of the
nation, the faith In which it was con-
ceived and the faith in which it has
grown to glory and power. With thai
faith and the birth of a nation found
ed upon it came the hope into the
world that a new order would prevail
thruout the affairs of mankind. ar
order in which reason and right woul6
take precedence of covetousness and
force and I believe that 1 express tht
wish and purpose of every thoughtful
American when 1 say that this sen
tence marks for us in the PLANES
manner the part we should play aliki
in the arrangements of our domesti,
affairs and in our exercise of influ
ence upon the affairs of the world
BY this faith and by this faith alone
can the world be lifted out of its pres
ent confusion and despair 1t was thi
faith which prevailed over the wicked
forces of Germany. You will remem
ber that the beginning of the end o
this war came when the German peo
pie found themselves face to face will
the conscience of the world and real
ized that right was everywhere ar
rayed against the wrong that thei
government was attempting to perpe
trate! 1 think. therefore, that it i
true tc say that this was the faitl
which won the war Certainly this i
the faith with which OFT gallant me-
went into the field and out upon tn
seas to make sure of victory.
This is the mission upon which de
-~mocracy came into the world. Democ
racy is an assertion of the right of tn
? individuals to live and to be treate
justly as against any attempt on tn
part of any combination of individual
to make laws which will overburdel
him or which will destroy his equalit
among his fellows in the matter c
right or privilege. and I think we a
realize that the day has come whe
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