Safe For Democracy

Mr. Woodrow Wilson,

How can you announce to the people around you that “the world must be made safe for democracy” (VOF 102), when all the people of the United States are not surrounded by democracy themselves? Mr. President, making the world safe for democracy is the best shot we have at making everyone safe within it, and needs to be done at all costs. Being that you are the president of this nation, the United States should be the first on your list to make democracy safe for. Democracy has come from the Declaration of Independence, which defines our Natural Rights and freedoms. These “maxims of the Declaration were once called ‘fundamental principles of government.’ They are now called ‘American principles’ or even ‘Americanisms’” (VOF

President “in a mighty crisis of the nation, proclaimed to the world: ‘We are fighting for the things which we have always carried nearest to our hearts: for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own government’” (VOF 105). Mr. Wilson, not all the reside in the United States are truly free or given a voice in their own government. There are those citizens with the right to voice an opinion and those who are not. White men have been able to vote since the beginning of this country. The black man has received the same right over the course of time. These are the citizens, who are able to vote, who you said hold the “principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power…” (VOF 101). The rest of the people cannot vote and are not represented by their very own government and virtually have no say in the nation they live in. These people are the women of the community, both white and of color. How can you call them free? How can they be deemed citizens while lacking the right to vote? We women lack the basic right to vote, lack the right to be represented in our own country! We shall be equal with all men in this aspect as we are all human beings! “Taxation without representation is tyranny,” and with the other seizing the billions paid in taxes by women to whom he refuses ‘representation.’” (VOF