The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-12-10
WILSON SEEKS
TAX REVISION
President, in Message to Con-
gress Asks Immediate indie
pendence for Philippines.
URGES AID TO ARMENIA
Budget Law and Rehabilitation of Dis
abIed Soldiers Recommended
Legislation to Cut Living
Costs Advocated.

Costs Advocated.
] Washington President Wilson's
| concrete recommendations to congress.
in his annual message were:
Revision of the tax laws, with
simpHfication of the income and
profits taxes.
independence for the Philip
pines.
A loan to Armenia.
| Economy in government appro-
priations and expenditures and Gre
alton "of workable budget sys-
tenn"
Cold storage and other laws af-
fecting the cost of living, and the
federal licensing of corporations
as recommended in previous mes
sages.
Rehabilitation and training of
disabled soldiers and sailors.
The president did not endorse a
bonus for the soldiers.
Nowhere did the president refer to
the League of Nations or the peace
treaty fight except perhaps by infer.
ence in his opening when he quoted
Abraham Lincoln's 'let us have faith
that right makes might and that faith
let us dare to do our duty as we un.
derstand it."
The presidents message was trans
mitted by messenger, the president
adhering to his decision not to address
congress in person.
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
President Wilson's annual message
to congress follows:
when l 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
union, I found my thought dominated
by an immortal sentence of Abraham
Lincoln's: Let us have faith that
right makes might, and in that faitn
let us dare to do our duty as we un-
derstand it.-A sentence immortal be-
cause it embodies in a form of utter
simplicity and purity the essential 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 a nation
founded upon it came the hope into
the world that a new order would pre-
vail throughout the affairs of mankind,
an order in which reason and right
would take precedence of coveteous
ness and force, and,
81 believe that 1 express the wish
and purpose of every thoughtful Amer
lean when l say that this sentence
marks for us 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 it's present con-
fusion 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
came when the German people found
themselves face to face with the con-
science of the world and realized that
right was everywhere arrayed against
the wrong that their government was
attempting to perpetrate. ] think,
therefore, that it is true to say that
Ihio "oo IhO Acllti WhlSh WOu TIC wal,
Certainly this is the faith with which
our gallant men went into the field
and out on the seas to make sure of
victory.
Democracy Put to Test Now.
This is the mission upon which de-
mocracy came into the world Democ.
racy is an assertion 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 equality
among his fellows in the matter Of
right or privilege, and / think we all
realize that the day has come when de-
mocracy is being put upon its final
test. The old world is just now suffer-
ing from wanton rejection of the
principle of democracy and substitu-
tion 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 its pur-
ity and its spiritual power to prevail
1t is surely the manifest destiny of the
United States to lead in the attempt
to make this spirit prevail.
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 and power of democracy to make
and enforce laws which are unques-
tionably just and which are equal in
their administration-law which Sc
cure its full rights to labor and yet at
the same time safeguard the, integrity
of property, and particularly of that
property which is devoted to the devel-
opment of industry and the increase of
the necessary wealth of the world.
Second, by standing for right and jus
tice as toward individual nations. The
law of democracy is for the protection
of the weak, and the influence of
every democracy in the world should
be for the protection of the weak ma
ton, the nation which is struggling
toward its rights and toward its prop
er recognition and privilege in the
family of nations. The United States
cannot refuse this role of champion
without putting the stigma of rejec-
tion upon the great and devoted men
who brought its government into ex-
istence and established it in the face
of almost universal opposition and In
trigue, even in the face of wanton
force; as, for example, against the or
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