Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-12-16
I WILSON s MESSAGE
To THE CONGRESS
Urges Revision of Tax Laws and
Aid to Veterans.
WOULD HELP SMALL POWERS
Asks Freedom for Philippines. Loan to
Armenia and Strict Economy With
Workable Budget System
Must Keep Worlds Faith.


Wilson's concrete recommendation t.
congress in his annual message were
Revision of the tax laws, with sim
lplificatiOn of the income and profits
taxes
Independence of the Philippines
A loan to Armenia.
Economy in government appropria
tons and expenditures and creation
of a workable budget system
:, Cold storage and other laws affect
Ing the cost of living, and the fed
erai licensing of corporations as rec
commended in previous messages.
! Rehabilitation and training of dis.
abled soldiers and sailors.
/ The President did not indorse q
bonus.
Nowhere did the President refer to
the League of Nations or the peace
treaty fight, except perhaps by infer
ence in his opening when he
quoted Abraham Lincoln's LET us
have faith that right makes might, and
In that faith let us dare to do our duty
| Valedictory Paragraph at End.
AT its close the president wrote a
paragraph which might be regarded
as valedictOry, saying:
Il have not so much laid before
you a series of recommendations as
sought to utter confession of faith
to stand by until my last fighting day.
believe this to be the faith of Amer
lea, the faith of the future, and of all
victories which await national ac-
ton in the days to come, whether in
America or elsewhere"
Democracy, the President said ais
being put upon its final test"
'"The old world" he said, "is Just
ton of the principle Of democracy and
a substitution of the principle of au-
tOcracy as asserted in the name, but
without the authority and sanction of
the multitude. This is the time of
all others when democracy should
prove its purity and its spritua! pow
er to prevail. 1t is surely the mani
fest destiny of the United States to
lead In the attempt to make this spirit
prevail"
Two Ways to Act.
Two ways lin which the United
States can assist to accomplish this
great object" we're outlined by the
President They were:
u. by Offering the example with
in her own borders of the will and
power Of democracy to make and en-
force laws which are unquestionabIy
just and which are equal in their adj
mniStratiOn.
$40. BY standing for right and JUS
itice as toward individual nations"
The Presidents message in part fol-
lows:
When | addressed myself to per-
FORMING the duty laid upon the Presi-
dent by the Constitution to present to
you an annual report of the state Of
the Union, ! found my thought dcmi-
mated by an immortal sentence of
Abraham Lincoln's: LET use have
faith that right makes right. and in
that faith let us dare to do our duty
as we understand it," sentence I'M
mortal because it embOdies in form of
utter simplicity and purity the essen
tial faith of the nation. the faith in
which 1t was conceived, and the faith
in which ii has grown to glory and
power
With that faith and the birth of a
nation founded upon 1t came the hope
into the world that new order would
prevail throughout the affairs of man.
kind, an order in which reason and
right would take precedence of covet-
iOuSneSS and force, and | believe that
i express the wish and purpose of ev-
cry thoughtful American when | say
that this sentence marks for us In the
plainest manner the part we should
play alike in the arrangement of orr
domestic 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
its present confusion and despair. II
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 ev-
erywhere arrayed against the wrong
that their government was attempting
10 perpetrate. | think. therefore. that
1t is true to say that this was the
faith which won the war. Certainly
this is the faith with which our gall
liant men went into the field and out
upon the seas TO make sure of victory.
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