AMERICAN CONGRESS

Waikato Times, Volume 93, Issue 14538, 9 December 1920, Page 5

AMERICAN CONGRESS

MR WILSON’S LAST MESSAGE. SOME NOTABLE OMISSIONS. WORK FOR THE SESSION. (Australian and N.Z. Gable Assn.) (Received December 8. 9.15 p.m. NEW YORK, December 7. Mr Wilson’s final message to Congress was read by the Clerk, the President yielding to his physician’s plea not to appear personally. Mr Wilson said there were two ways in which the United States could plead in establishing the doctrine that right makes might in the world; firstly, by offering an example within tier own borders of the will power of Democracy to make and enforce laws unquestionably just and equal in their administration ; secondly, by standing for right ami justice towards individual nations. The President did not mention (he Peace Treaty or the League of Nations, but declared that the Old World just now was suffering from a wanton rejection of the principles of democracy and the substitution of the principles of autocracy. His programme for the present session of Congress includes granting independence to the Philipine Islands, Government loan to Armenia and aid for disabled soldiers and sailors, lie suggested that the expenditure of the proposed loan to Armenia should bo under Hie supervision of a Commission in order not to tempt revolutionary tendencies within Armenia.