Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1920-12-17

w lllo Htldl ACt bithi
message to Congress, delivered by
messenger December z, the second day
of final session of the Sixty-sixth,
President Wilson declared that on
what national law-making bodies shall
do to remedy any injustices or evils
that may have shown themselves in
our own national life depends the
triumph Of democracy in the world
that to do so "will afford the most
effecttAl offset TO the forces of chaos
and tyranny which are playing so dis
astrous a part in the fortunes of free
peoples in more than one part of the
world"
The President declared that this
country should. first demonstrate with
In its own borders that the will and
power of democracy will make and en-
force laws which are unquestionably
just and equal to their administration,
and second, stand for right and justice
rs toward individual nations.
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:
1. Immediate passage of the budget
bill.
2. Strictest economy In Government
| appropriations.
3. Immediate revision Of tax laws.
4. Adequate provision for disabled
soldiers and sailors.
6. Granting Of independence to the
Philippines.
immortal Lincoln Quotation.
The Presidents speech in substance
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
the Union l found myself dominated
by an immortal sentence of Abraham
Lincoln's, Let us have faith that right
makes might. and In that faith let us
dare to do our duty as we understand
it. sentence immortal because 1t EN-
bodies in form of utter simplicity and
purity the essential state of the ma
ton, the faith in which 1t was con-
ceived and the faith in which 1t has
grown to glory and power.
"With that faith and the birth of a
nation founded upon 1t 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 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.
ut was this faith which prevailed
over the wicked force of Germany. You
will 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.
II think, therefore, that II 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 think
we all realize that the day has come
when democracy is being put upon its
| final test.
1.-THE Old World Is just now suffering
from wanton rejection of the prin-
ciple Of democracy and substitution
of the principle of autocracy as as
serted in 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
will and power of democracy to make
and enforce laws which are unques-
| tionably just and which are equal in
their dministration--laws which Sc
cure Its full right to labor and yet at
the same time safeguard the integrity
Of property and particularly Of that
| property which is devoted to the de-
velopment Of industry and the increase
of the necessary wealth Of the world.
"Second. By standing for right and