The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1920-12-17

Standardization Wilson, in
his annual congressional message,
called on Congress TO enact program
OF legislation which he said would put
the United States in the forefront of
a movement to make the spiritual
power of democracy prevail through
out the world
The message was sent t. the two
Houses December by messenger. The
President said there are two ways in
which the United States can lead in
establishing the doctrine of fright
makes might" in the world. These
ways, he said, are:
First, by offering the example with
In her own borders of the will and
power of democracy to make and en-
force laws which are unquestionably
just and which are equal in their adj
ministration. Second. by standing for
right and justice as toward individual
nations"
Submits a Program.
The President declared that "the dis
play of an immediate disposition on
the part of Congress to remedy any
injustices or evils that may have
shown themselves in our own national
life will afford the most effectual off
set TO the forces Of choas and tyranny
which are playing so disastrous a part
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 his
message, but submitted the following
program to carry out the aims he out
lined:
L. Immediate passage of the budget
bill
.. Suictest economy in Government
appropriations
3 Immediate revision ofatax laws
4. Adequate provision for disabled
soldiers and sailors.
3 a Government loan to Armenia
6. Granting of independence to the
Philippines.
immortal Lincoln Quotation.
The Presidents speech in substance
follows:
when 1 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 l found myself dominated
by an immortal sentence of Abraham
LincoIns. 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 immortal because it en-
bodies in a form of utter simplicity and
purity the essential state of the ma
ton, the faith in which it was con-
ceived and the faith in which it has
grown TO glory and power.
with that faith and the birth of
nation founded upon it came the hope
into the world that new order would
prevail throughout the affair of man
kind. an order In which reason and
right would take precedence of covet-
BUSINESS and force, and l believe that
/ express the wish and purpose of
every thoughtful American when / say
that this sentence marks for US in the
plainest manner the part we should
play alike in the arrangements 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.
Beginning Of the End.
cit was this faith which prevailed
over the wicked force of Germany, You
VIII remember that the beginning of
the end of 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 attempting to perpe-
trate.
al think. therefore, thatit 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 nilsson upon which
democracy came into the world. 1 think
we all realize that the day has come
when democracy is being put upon its
final test.
"'The Old World is just now suffering
from a wanton rejection of the prin-
ciple of democracy and a substitution
Of the principle Of autocracy as as
serted i'm the name but without the |
authority and sanction of the multi
tude.
Two Ways to Help.
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 /
win and power of democracy to make |
and enforce laws which are unques-
rionably just and which are equal in /
their Observation-Disclosures which Sc
cure its full right TO labor and yet at /
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The ReassurinD Word.
Il have implicit faith in my hus-
band" she said. 1--WE never seen him
try TO f1irt with anyone
But" her comforting friend asked.
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