Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-07
President Refrains From
Reference to League of
Nations or Treaty.
SAYS NATION MUST
LEAD DEMOCRACIES
Budget System, Independence OF
Philippine Islands, Revision Of Tax
Laws Embodied in Recommends
tions-President Terms Message
Declaration OF Faith Rather Than
Advocacy Of Legislation.
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
Washington. Dec. Z. President
wilson sent his message to congress
today. Because Of this being his
hnal message. much interest at
tached to the document, and its read
ing was listened to with close atten-
tion in both houses. The president
made no reference to the league OF
nations, or the peace treaty and
confined his recommendations to
questions which have been before the
public and some Of which have been
endorsed In party, platforms. The
text OF the message follows:
Quotes Lincoln.
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 my thousht
dominated by an immortal sentence
OF Abraham Lincoln's: Let us nave
faith that right makes might. "a N
that faith let US iare to do our duty
les we understand it'--a sentence inn
nc rtal because It embodics i'll form
Of utter s.rnpl. city end purity the es
sential faith OF the nation, the faith
in which 1t Was conceived and the
faith in which 1t has grown to glory
I and power. Is
with that taith and the birth of
q nation founded upon it came the
hope into the world that a new order
would prevail thrnont the afIairs OF.
mankind, an order In which reason
and right would take precedence of
coyetousness and force, and l be-
l.eve that / express the wish and
purpose of every thoughtful Ameri-
can when I say that this sentence
marks for us in the plainest manner
4 the part we should play alike In the.
arrangement of our domestic affairs
and in our exercise of Influence upoE
the affairs of .;.e world. By this faith,
end BY this faith alone, can the wcrld
be lifted out. OF its present confu-
E.cn and dispa,r.'
Faith Won the War.
1T was this faith which prevailed
over the wicked force Of Germany.
You will remember that the begin
ming OF tho 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 arrayed against the
wrong that their government was at
+ tempting to perpetrate. l 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 gallant men went into the
field and out upon the seas to make
sure Of victory. This is the mission
Upon which democracy came into
s the world. Democracy is an asser-
ton 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 equal
ity among his fellows in the matter
of right or privilege, and think we
all reallze that the day has com.
when democracy is being put upon
its final test. The old world is just
now sulering from wanton rejec-
tion of tire principles of democracy
and substitution ui the principle of
autocracy, as asserted in the name.
but without the authority and
sanction Of the mu titude. This is the
time OF all oraors when democracy
should prove It's purity and it's spirit
ual power to prevail. It is surely
the manifest destiny Of the United
States to lead In the attempt to make
his spirit prevail.
Win by Example.
ihere are two ways In which the
United States can assist to accom-
plish 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 unquestion-
ably just and which are equal in
their adninistration-laws which se-
cure its full right to labor and vet
at the same time safeguard the in
tegrity OF property, and particularly
Aof that property which is devoted to
the development of industry and the
Increase Of the necessary wealth of
the world.
Second. by stand for right and
justice as toward individual nations.
The law of democracy is for the pro-
lection OF the weak. and the influence
of every demrocacy in the world
should be for the protection of the
weak nations, the nation which is
struggling toward its right and to-
ward its proper recognition and priv
ilege in the family OF nations
THE United States can not refuse
this role of champion without putting
the stigma Of rejection upon the
great and devoted men who brought
it's government into existence and
established it IN the face Of almost
universal opposition and intrigue,
even in the face Of wanton force, as,
for example, against the orders in
council OF Great Britain and the ar
britrary Napoleonic DEGREES which
involved us In what we know as the
war OF 1879.
T urge you TO consider that the