Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-12-10
PRESIDENT SENDS
IN HIS MESSAGE
CHIEF @Ael sTRATE CALLS ON
CONGRESS TO JUSTIFY DE-
MocRAcY BEFORE WORLD.
SETS FORTH NATIONS DUTY
Says II Ie the Manifest Destiny Of
United States to Lead In Making
Spirit Of "Right Makes Might" Pre-
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Spirit of Fright Makes Might" Pre-.
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Washington, Dec abandoning his
intention to deliver his message to
congress In person. President Wilson
sent 1t In and the Jerks Of both houses
read IT. Following is the full text of
the message:
Gentlemen of the congress-:
When l 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 domi.
mated 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 understand IT." a sentence Inn
mortal because Ii embodies In form OF
utter simplicity and purity the essen
tial faith 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 1t came the hope
into the world that a new order would
prevail throughout the affairs of man
kind. an order In which reason and
right would take precedence of coyet-
BUSINESS and force, and believe that
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 our
dom,,atic 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. 1t
was this faith which prevailed over
the wicked force of Germany. You
win remember that the beginning of
the end of the wa7 came when the
German people found themselves face
60 face with the conscience of the
world. and realized that right was ev-
erywhere 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 gall
liant men went into the field and out
upon the seas to make sure of victory.
This is the mission upon which de-
mocracy came into the world. Demac-
racy is an assertion CT 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 viii destroy his equality
among his fellows In the matter of
right or privilege, and think we all
realize that the day has come when
democracy is being put upon its final
test. The old world is just now suf.
fering from wanton rejection of the
principle of democracy and 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 sig puri.
ty and Its spiritual power to prevail
1t is surely the manifest destiny of the
United States to lead in the attempt tc
make this spirit prevail.
Two Things for Us to DO.
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 power of democracy TO make
and enforce laws which are unques-
tionably just and which are equal In
their administration-laws which Sc
cure Its full right to labor and yet al
the same time safeguard the integrity
of property. and particularly of that
property which is devoted to the de.
velopment of industry and the In.
crease of the necessary wealth of the
world. Second, by standing for right
and justice as towards Individual ma
tions. The law of democracy is fol
the protection of the weak and the In
fiuence of every democracy In tn,
world should be for the protection a
the weak nation, the nation which 1,
struggling toward its right and to
ward its proper recognition aud priv
ilege in the family of nations.
The United States cannot refus,
this role OF champion without pvttins
the stigma of rejection upon the grea
and devoted men who brought IT'S gov
eminent into existence and esta hlishet
II in the face of almost universal op
position and intrigue even In fac,
of wanton force, as, for example
against the order in council of Great
Britain and the arbitrary NapoleoniC