The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-12-24
tAND|NG Of PR|LGR|MS
Tercentenary Of Historic
Event Celebrated
SENATOR LODGE ORATOR
Descendants of Fathers and
Distinguished Men Partici-
pate In Program

pate In Program
TRIBUTE WRITTEN IN HONOR OF
THE PILGRIM FATHERS.
]. NJ. Balm. D. d.
No greater In the hall of Fame,
For heroism and real worth.
Has yet been written any name,
who larger blessings brought to earthj
Than S..:ss-,~n Fathers so well known,
Whom now we gladly call our own.
These Pilgrims first to Holland fled,
Because no rest was found at home.
Hardships they surely did not dread,
So willingly were they to roam,
Where they could worship God Alright,
AS He by Grace gave them the light.
eut-even here, sorry TO say,
Freedom of conscience was NOT given.
Hampered were they, the same old way
SO from their homes again were driven.
Pilgrims were they with holy aims,
Seeking a land where freedom reisns..
They crossed, the oceans bound'es'
In quest of freedoms promised land.
BY trials many, sohooed race,
Committing all into Gods hand:
So In the Mayfiower they came,
A stalwart number to remalns
Their key note, True Democracy.
They planted on this favored land,
Where II was never to decay,
But like the rock firmly to stand
Plymouth Rock we VIII remember,
They numbered but one hundred three,
Each one hero, blessed Of Heaven,
And ere they landed did agree,
To write a Compact, which like ieaven,
Would permeate with righteous aim,
A great Republic to remain.
Three hundred years, so quickly passed
Since landing on our eastern shore:
Their worth today more firmly ciasped;
As tine rolls on, stsons e o sna more
Best paid by living right as we 90.
ASSOCIATED Press Disna.ch.l
Plymouth, Mass. December 21.-On
the shore of Plymouth Bay, where
tho breaking waves dashed high
when the Pilgrims set foot on Ply
mouth Rock on December 81, 1920
.reir descendants Joined with other
distinguished men of this generation
in America. Great Britain and Holland
in observing today with due solemrli
ty the tercentenary of their landing
The orator was Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge, a successor in representation
in the Senate from Massachusetts Of
Daniel Webster, who delivered the
famous Plymouth Grafton" at the
hundredth anniversary.
An address was delivered by Gov
ernor Calvin Coolidge. vice president
elect and a poem 1920 1920" was
read by Dean LeBaron r. Briggs OF
the faculty of arts and sciences OF
Harvard University. Hymns appro-
pirate to the occasion were sung, in
Guiding the Landing of the Pilgrims
ty Mrs. Felicia Hernans, known to
every American school boy and CIR
for generations.
The Pilgrims Story.
Senator Lodge gave a scholarly
outline of the Pilgrims story and In
drawing from It a lesson for present
day America he pointed out that "they
set character first" sought to give
men freedom both in body and mind
and "tried to reduce the sum OF hu
man misery"
whatever our faith" he said
whatever our belief IN progress
there can be no nobler purposes fol
man than thus to deal with the only
earth he knows and the fragment O
time awarded him here. While the
deed 10 the memory of the Pilgrims
OF Plymouth it will take no detrimen
even from the hand of time" Ir
stately measures Dean Briggs Sc
forth the vision of the Pilgrims ant
their prayerful determination:
Freedom Thy new born nation here
shall cherish:
Grant us Thy covenant, unchanging
sure:
Earth shall decay; the frmanen
shall perish;
Freedom and Truth, immortal shall
endure"
The answer of their descendants t
this challenge came in these words:
The Pilgrims faith, the Pilgrim
courage grant US;
Still shines the truth that for th'
Pilgrim shone.
We are his seed not life nor dealt
shall daunt us. ~.
The port is Freedom! Pilgrim heart
sail on!"
The Official Party.
The official party came from Bos
ton on a special train and proceede,
Immediately to the old Colony Thea
tire, where the exercises were held. II
their number. in addition TO the speak
ers of the day, were official repre-
sentatives of Great Britain and Hol
land, several New England Govern
OTIS, members of the New Englan'
judiciary, Senator Oscar w. Under
wood of Alabama and members Of pa
triotic societies including the societ.
of Mayfiower Descendants. The pre-
siding officer was Louis X. Liggett o
Boston. chairman of the Massachu
sets Pilgrim Tercentenary Commits
sion.
After the formal exercises the guest
of the day were entertained at lunch
con. The remainder of the day the
gave over to a pilgrimage to Ply
mouth Rock the Coles Hill Buryin
Ground and other parts OF the tow
intimately connected with the Pill
grims' history. Senator Lodge touch
ed upon 'the peevish, meaningless
objection" that IL the great men o
history had not accomplished tn
specific deeds attached to their name
somebody else would have done al
these things" and continued.
Will Spend Christmas In Egypt.
letter was received by friends ii
the city Yesterday from Paul Pipef