Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-23

and frequent doubt almost to the
verge of despair.
The Pilgrim Fathers were more
than religionists. They happened to
be builders of states. They were
founders coming up out of the tur-
moil of shifting states, and falling
monarchies. They were separatists.
the sort of people who had the cour-
age to split with the party, or the
church, while the Puritans, who came
later, were ,non-Conformists, who
hoped to hang on with the estab-
lished order and purify it from with
in. The Puritans were hanging
around England while the Pilgrims
were building state here. The Pur
itanS came along while England was
getting ready to decapitate Charles
they understood that the Pilgrims
were making good with their Ameri-
can undertaking. Twenty-sx thous-
and Puritans made up the Puritan ex-
odus from England between 1929 and
1910. and they were of the same men,
tai timber. as q rHie, as the Pilgrims,
only they didn't happen to be quite
SO full of tho red blood of courage as
did the Mnyflowor folks who cut the
knot, broke the ties. and faced the flu
ture of the unknown and came here
. as founders. I need not say that we
make very marked distinction over
In New England between the Pill
grims and the Puritnn2. We look
upon tho Pil8rimn Sc rather the
, Charter Member OF our Common
wealth. the Puritans rs later access
sions. Tho Pilgrims maintained that
the Church and tho State should be
separated. ana Ii was separated. The
Pur:tang believed in Il thaSeracy that
.nada tho Church and tho State
identical, aad tho Pilgrim has won
all tho way through. When tho Pur-
isaes required eau.eh membership
.ss n condition &c electoral suf.
ffasa. tho Pilgrim merely smiled
to aoa II pass by tho route
OF tho half way covenant to tho com.
piete freedom OF the ballot box. It is
significant that this body of people
made up OF Pilgrims and Puritans
received S-ery few aeoess.ona by i'm
migration for $50 years. Their growth
waB from their own stock, Their de-
veiopment was by natural increase,
md this ID the thing ! have been
, lead.AS up to. tho completeness Of
th-a sxpeMascns4o 90 -c:vitiHatioa. From
lGi6 20 1890 The Pilgrim and tho Pu-
Etan enjayod practical scciusion.
They thus Developed law. ort;a: sye-
att ~
aeter. solid and substantial virtues.
When the war Of the Revolution
ean1e they 6true.: iko a trip hammer.
/; 1t was this power and th:s honopon-
/ city thai made them the power in the
formation and in the DEVELOPMENT or
the American Republic, and il 10 this
power that 1 assume We meet hero
. tonight to commemorate and to an
provo.
/ might Govoiop tho political ele-
mentH OF tho Landing and it's evolu-
/ ton: but others can do it far better:
am moved to say. however, that the
Pilgrims were moro than founders.
they were poets and idealists of the
sort that flower into benehcence.
Theirs was q practical ideallsn that
biossomed into the common school.
the tidy home. the wayside church.
the rat acres. the, overfiowing barns,
the cellars full of all good things
against tho cold winter. They were
considerably exercised over the IA
points of Caivinism. anu Congrega-
tionalism. but they mover permitted
eny one of them to run counter TO
their canny regard fer individual
proprietorship and material prosperi-
ty.
We have good many descendants
OF the Bradfords. the AIdens. the
Winthrops, tho Standishes. over in
my neighborhood in the country town
where | live. and will back any one
OF them to hold his own against al,
consers In any discussion Of Constitu.
tlonal prerogative, common-law.
league of nations, Salvation by Grace
or a "Hoss Trade" Our constitn-
tional liberty and our constitutions,
law are the consummate flower of
the compacts of their fathers. They
Know their duties before they know
their rights. and they understand full
~ that duty precedes right in the
Individual conscience. 1t is this sort
OF folks that would commend to Won
as stable, secure. substantial. and of
very great value to the Republic.
would commend also any cornmem-
ofation OF that strangely ordered and
slgnlncantly blessed evolution of the
foundations of a republic that was
ordained to the service OF humanity,
would bring to your memories also
the value of the simple home life
that they observed. the old New Eng.
land home, with the roses over the
door. and ask of such of you as have
childhood memories Of them - So,
II they nave yet faded in your hearts.
This survival of New England Pill
grim and Puritan blood, that has
commingied with the blood Of every
state or this nation, may have it's
faults of temperament, but you can
count on one thing, ladies' ana ren-
tlemen. It Is True Blue, a ward w,d.
dyed In the wool American. Where-
ever this blood flows there ID a Myles
Standish to shoulder a musket: there
is an Elder Brewster to pitch the
tune OF the voice Of conscience and
or duty, and there In a Priscilla. who
is still the saint, the sweetheart the
VIE, or the mother Of some New
England home.
Freedom even in this land in NOT
license. Liberty is no Justification