McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1920-12-24
UNITED STATES MUST LEAD
WORLD TO DEMOCRACY
Should Correctby Legislation Injustces in Our
National Life AS Proof That
Democracy Is Fair

aShingt0n.-President Wilson, II
bis annual congressional message
called on Congress to enact program
of legislation which he said would pu
the United States in the forefront O.
q movement to make the spiritua
power of democracy prevail through
out the world.
The message was sent t. the TIVE
Houses December by messenger, Th'
President said there are two ways Ii
which the United States can lead II
establishing the doctrine of "righ
makes might" in the world. These
ways, he said, are:
"First, by offering the example with
In her own borders of the will ant
power of democracy to make and en-
force laws which are unquestionabl.
just and which are equal In their ad
ministration. Second, by standing fo
right and justice as toward individual
nations"
Submits Program.
The President declared that "the dis
play Of an immediate disposition OF
the part of Congress to remedy an.
lnjustices or evils that may have
shown themselves in our own nationa
life will afford the most effectual off
set to the forces of choas and tyrann,
which are playing so disastrous a par
In the fortunes OF free peoples in more
than one part of the world"
Wilson did not mention the peace
treaty or League of Nations In hi
message, but submitted the following
program to carry out the aims he out
| lined:
/. Immediate passage of the bulge
bill.
2. Strictest economy in Government
appropriations.
3. Immediate revision of tax laws.
4. Adequate provision for disabled
soldiers and sailors.
8. A Government loan to Armenia.
g. Granting of independence to thu
Philippines.
immortal Lincoln Quotation.
The Presidents speech in substance
follows:
when l addressed myself to per
forming the duty laid upon the Presi
dent by the Constitution to present t,
you an annual report on the state O
the Union | found myself dominated
by an immortal sentence of Abraham
Lincoln's, Let us have faith that RICH
makes might, and in that faith let III
dare to do our duty as we understand
| it, a sentence immortal because it EN-
bodies in form of utter simplicity ant
purity the essential state of the ma
ton, the faith in which 1t was con
seived and the faith in which it ha
grown to glory and power.
| with that faith and the birth of ,
nation founded upon it came the hop,
into the world that new order woul,
prevail throughout the affair of man
kind, an order in which reason an,
right would take precedence of covet
BUSINESS and force, and / believe tina
| express the wish and purpose o
every thoughtful American when | sa,
that this sentence marks for us in tn,
plainest manner the part we shout,
LAY alike in the arrangements Of gu
domestic affairs and in our exercise 0
influence upon the affairs of the world
"By this faith and by this faitl
alone, can the world be lifted out o
Its present confusion and despair.
| Beginning Of the End.
ut was this faith which prevaile,
over the wicked force of Germany Yol
Will remember that the beginning o
the end of war came when the German
people found themselves face to fac
| with the conscience of the world an,
realized that right was everywher
arrayed against the wrong that thei
Government was attempting to perpe
| trate.
II think, therefore, that II is true t
say that this was the faith which wo
the war. Certainly this is the fait
with which our gallant men went int
the field and out upon the seas to max
sure of victory.
This Is the nilsson upon whic
democracy came into the world. thin
we all realize that the day has com
when democracy is being put upon 1t
| final test.
1.-THE Old World is just now sufferin
from a wanton rejection Of the priI
ciple of democracy and Substitution
OF the principle of autocracy as as
serted In the name but without tn
authority and sanction of the multi
tude.
/ Two Ways to Help.
"There are two ways in which tn
United States can assist to accomplis
;. this great object: First, by offering tn
example within her own borders of tn
win and power Of democracy to max
and enforce laws which are unique:
tionably just and which are equal |
their administration-laws which 81
cure Its full right to labor and yet q
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The Reassurinu Word.
II have implicit faith In my hui
band" she said. 1--WE never seen hi
try to fiirt with anyone"
But" her comforting friend askeI
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