New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-12-17
WILSON FAVORS
STRICT ECONOMY
REVISION OF TAX PLANS AND
Philippine INDEPEND-
EkCE URGED.
U. S. AS WORLD MODEL
PRESIDENT APPEALS FOR WORLD
DEMOCRACY; LEAGUE OF MA
TONS NOT MENTIONED.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington, Dec. 7.-President vii
son sent his final regular message t,
Congress today to the Two Houses by
messenger.
The text of President Wilson's mes
sage follows:
when l addressed myself to per
forming the duty laid upon the Presi
dent by the constitution to present tC
you an annual report on the state OF
the union | found myself dominated
by sn immortal sentence of Abraham
Lincoln's: Let us have faith thai
right makes might, and in that faith
let us dare TO do our duty as we un-
derstand it, a sentence immortal be,
cause it embodies in Il form of utter
simplicity and purity the essential
state of the nation, the faith in which
it was conceived and the faith in which
1t has grown TO glory and TO power.
With that faith and the birth of a ma
ton founded upon it 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 cOvete-
BUSINESS and force, and l believe that
l 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
MA aliEa i'm tho rrop.vnp,op 90 ..,n
domestic affairs and in our exercise
of influence upon the affairs of the
world.
Victory Accomplished by Faith.
by this faith and by this faith alone
can the world be lifted out of its pres
ent confusion and despair. 1t was this
faith which prevailed over the wicked
force of Germany. You will remember
that the beginning of the end of the
war cane 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 govern
ment 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 gallant 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. Democ-
racy is an assertion of the right of the
individual 10 live and TO be treated
justly as against any attempt on the
part of any combination of individuals
10 make laws which will overburdcn
him or which will destroy his equality
among his fellows in the matter of
right or privilege, and | think VIC all
that the day has come when
democracy is icing put upon its final
test.
Democracy Should Prevail.
"rhe Old world is just now suffer
ing from a wanton rejection OF the
principle of democracy and ii substan-
tiatlon of the principle of autocracy as
in the name, but without the
mummy NV Ndll'Albi VI lIf UllllI-l
tude. This is the time of all others
democracy should prove It's pur-
Ity and its spiritual power To prevail.
1t Is surely the manifest destiny of
HE United States to lead in the at
.empt 10 make this spirit prevail.
There are two ways in which the
'nited States can assist to accomplish
his great object: First, by offering
he example within her own borders
the will and power of democracy 10
and enforce laws which are un-
.luestionably just and which are equal
n their administration-laws which
secure its full right TO labor and yet
It the same time safeguard the integ- :
ity of property and particularly of
hat property which Is devoted 10 the
development Of industry and the in
rease of the necessary wealth of the |
world. Second, by standing for right
nd justice as toward individual ma
$
Urges Protection Of Weak. {
"The law of democracy is for the !
protection of the weak and the influ- a
of every democracy in the world S
hould he for the protection of the S
-"ak nation, the nation which is strug- Q
ling towards its right and towards its 7
roper recognition and privilege in the
lmily of nations. r
The United States cannot refuse {
his role Of champion without putting T
ne stigma of rejection upon the great h
nd devoted men who brought its gov d
into existence and established d
in the face of almost universal oppo Z
ition and intrigue, even in the face of v
anton force, as, for example, against p
he orders in council of Great Britain h
nd the arbitrary Napoleonic DEGREES r.
hich involved us in what we know as d
10 wal of 1912. il
Il urge you to consider that the dis a
of an immediate disposition on the n
art of the Congress to remedy any in d
Istices or evils that may have shown o
lemselves in our own national life a
i'll afford the most effectual offset to n
lie forces of chaos and tyranny which in
-e playing so disastrous a part in thel
of Article X Postponed. C;
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