Norwich bulletin., 1920-12-08
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
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ticeS which take money from the treas lry by indefinite or revolving fund ap- 
 This years estimates "strikingly'' H. lustrated the importance of specific ap- the president added, the transportation act having ''disturbed' the relationship between current re- ceipts and expenditures to the extent of over a billion dollars.
 Tt is obvious" the message contin- ued, that these large payments have already seriously limited the govern ment's progress in retiring the floating debt"
 The president renewed some of the recommendations he made at the opening Df the last session, and added:
 T do not feel it my privilege at pres ent to suggest the detailed and particu- lar methods by which these objects may be attained. but I have faith that the Inquiries of your several committees will discover the way and the method" The only recommendations for other than domestic matters was that for a loan to Armenia to be administered through American commissioners to avoid further tempting opportunities" 10 revolutionary tendencies in that coun- try" and for granting independence to she Philippines to keep our promise to ne people or those lSldnuS.
 TEXT OF PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
 Washington, Dec. 7.-President Will pn's annual message to congress follows When l addressed myself to perform ng the duty laid upon the president by he constitution to present to You an an- nual report on the state of the union. l found my thought dominated by an im- mortal sentence of Abraham Lincoln,s. "l.et us have faith that right makes might. and in faith let us dare to do our suty as we understand it,"-a sentence immortal because it embodies in a form of utter simplicity and purity the essen- :ill faith of the nation, the faith in which was conceived and the faith in which it ils grown to glory and power With hat faith and the birth of nation 'cunded upon 1t came the hope into the world that a new order would prevail throughout the affairs of mankind, an order in which reason and right would take precedence of covetousness mad force. and believe that 1 express the wish and purpose of every thoughtful American when I say that this sentence marks for uG in the plainest manner the part we should play alike in the arrangement of our 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 It was this faitf which prevailed over the wicked force O Germany. You will remember that tn, beginning of the end of the war cam when the German people found them selves face to face with the conscience of the world and realized that right wa everywhere arrayed against the wron, that their government was attempting tc perpetrate. I think therefore, that it i true to say that this was the faith witt which our gallant men went into the felt and out upon the seas to make sure o victory.
 Mlssien of Democracy
 This is the mission upon which de n,Ocracy came into the world. Democ racy is an assertion of the right of tn individual to live and to be treated justl as against any attempt on the part c any combination of individuals to mak laws which will overburden him or whic will destroy his equality among his fel lows in the matter of right or privilege and l think we all realize that the da has come when democracy is being pu upon It's final test The old world is jus now suffering from wanton rejection of the principle of democracy, and a sub stitution of the principle of autocracy a, asserted in the name but without the au thority and sanction of the multitude This Is the time of all others when de mocracy should prove it's purity and it spiritual power to prevail.
 United States Should Lead
 It is surely the manifest destiny of tn United States to lead in the attempt t make this spirit prevail. There are tw ways in which the United States can as sist to accomplish this great object: Firs by offering the example within her ow borders of the will and power of democ Iacy to make and enforce laws whic are unquestionably just and which ar equal in their administration-laws whic secure it's full right to labor and yet a the same time safeguard the integrity ( property and particularly of that proI erty which is devoted to the developmer of industry and the increase of the net essary wealth of the world. Second. b standing for right and justice as toward individual nations. The law of democrac in the world should be for -the protectio of the weak nations, the nation which struggling toward its right and towart its proper recognition and privilige in Il family of nations. The United State cannot refuse this role of champion witi out putting the stigma of rejection upc the great and devoted men who brousl its government into existence and estal lished t in the face of almost univers opposition and intrigue, even the ia, of wanton foTpe, or for example again the orders in council of Great Britain ar The arbitrary Napoleonic decrees which fl eolved Us in what we know as the WI ,f 1872.
 Duty of Congress to Remedy Injustie
 I urge you to consider that the di play of an immediate disposition on u part of congress to remedy any injustic or evils that may have shown themselv in our international life will afford il most effectual offset to the forces of cha and tyranny, which are playing so di astrous part in the fortunes of the fir people Of more than one part of u world.
 The United States is of necessity f sample democracy of the world and f triumph of democracy depends upon
 success.
 Recovery from the disturbing a Jsometimes disastrous effects of the Ia "@i has peen eAceedlngly SLOW on
 other side of the water and has giv
 promise, l venture to say, of early co
 pletion only in our own fortunate cou
 try but even with us the recovery ha
 and is impeded at times and there 2
 immediately serviceable acts of legis
 tion which 1t seems to me we ought
 attempt. to assist that recovery and pro
 the indestructible recupefative force of
 great government of the people One
 these is to prove that great democra
 can keep house as successfully and is
 businesslike fashion as any other E,
 srnment.
 Budget System is Necessary