The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1920-12-08

sons annual message to Congress to-
day follows:
When / 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
the Union, found myself dominated
by an immortal sentence of Abraham
Lincoln.
"Let us have faith that right makes
might, and in that faith let u sdare to
do our duty as we understand it,"
A sentence immortal because it en-
bodies in form of utter simplicity
and purity the essential faith of the
nation, the faith in which it was con-
ceived 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 hope into the world
that new order would prevail
throughout the affairs of mankind, an
order in which reason and right would
take precedence of covetousness and
force, and l believe that express tho
American when l say that this SEN
tence marks for us in the plainest
manner the part we should play alike
IN the arrangement of our domestic
affairs and in our exercise of infiu-
ence upon the affairs of the world.
BY this faith and by this faith alone,
\ can the world be lifted out of the
present confusion 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 conscience of the world and
realized that right was everywhere ar
rayed against the wrong that their
government was attempting to perpe
trate. l think, therefore, that it is
true to say that this was the faith
Awhich won the war. Certainly this is
the faith with which our gallant men
went into tc field and out upon the
seas to make sure of victory.
Mission of Democracy
This is the mission upon which De-
mocracy came into the world. De-
mocracy 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 cuual-
ity among his fellows in the matter of
rigth or privilege, and I think we all
realize that the day has come when
Democracy. is being put upon it's final
test. The Old World is just now suf
'terlng from a wanton rejection of the
prlnclple OF democracy and a substitu-
zion of the principle of autocracy as
asserted in the name, but without au-
thority and sanction Of the multitude.
This is the time Of all others when
democracy should prove it's purity and
its spiritual power to prevail. 1t 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 un
questionably just and which are equal
in their administration, laws which Sc
cure it's full right to labor and vet at
the same time safeguard the integrity
2f property, and particularly of that
property which is devoted to the de-
velopment 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 TO rthe protection of the weak ma
ton, the nation which is struggling
toward it's right and toward it's proper
recognition and privilege in the fam
lily of nations. The United States can
'gt refuse this role of champion with
out putting the stigma Of rejection
upon the great and devoted men who
brought its government into existence
and established it in the fact of al
most universal opposition and in
triguc, even in the face of wanton
force, as for example, against the
orders in council of Great Britain and
arbitrary Napoleonic DEGREES which in
.sssSS0lyed US in what we know as the
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