South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-02-22
PILGRIMS HOLD
ANNUAL MEETING
ViCe-PreSident Marshall Is
Principal Speaker AT
Gathering.

Py Associated Press:
NEW YORK. Feb. 81 Aliens
who come 20 America mot intend
ing 20 make permanent homes bu.
expecting 20 return. should not be
received" Vice Fres't Thomas r
Marshall declared here tonight in
an address at a dinner given By Sui
grave institution in celebration OF
The tercentenary Of the Pilgrim
FATHERS. This country. ne added.
should no longer beloved for its
opportunities alone but should be
loved for it's institutions ass well.
Mr.. Marshall. Ronald @. Lindsay,
counselor 10 the British embassy
and charge d'anaires. and Dr. H..
Dc Beaufort counsellor Of The
Netherlands legation. were guests of
honor.
One Lesson.
one ~ the lessons OF tho Pilgrim
Fathers that should be stamped
upon the heart OF every liberty
loving American" said Mr. Marshall.
is that they came 20 Plymouth 10
Worship God and 10 make homes,
determined never TO return TO
Europe"
These Pilgrims were English
speaking People ne continued.
and Crom their forgotten graves
they ought never to stretch forth
their dusty hands and touch the
sleeve Of an American elector who
does not speak the English Ian
guage.
Education Is good and necdful
for the American. Newcomers
should be required 20 learn our Ian
suage that they may understand our
institutions II aethists, homeless
wanderers and fortune seekers had
been kept without our doors, ono
of she great lessons or the Puritan
would have been learned and Am
erican institutions would now be
bacEc up 10y "A citizenship more CO.
hesive than ours
EulOgiICs Pilgrims.
I'm these troublous times. when
fire. .Gom Of speech is being used for
the purpose of forcibly undermining
the government OF the United States
ID is we'll TO remember that the gov
eminent Of the fathers is unfit 10
survive if it is powerless to prevent
unlawful assaults upon its author
itv."
EuIogizing the Pilgrim Fathers
for their great accomplishments
Vice Pres't Marshall said:
The Pilgrims are the life Of the
republic like the very air we
breathe. impelDable and unseen, yet
without them the republic might not
have been.
Search the long line of illustri-
GUS names. which adorn in Ieace
and war the annals of human his
tory. and tell me if their in single
soul which equals in majesty OF
purpose and greatness of consecra-
ton the plain and homely Abraham
fcoIn Tell me yet again If in all
movements which have left
their mighty impress for good upon
the country and a world there IS
any force comparable with that
which came from the unlearned. UNI
tutored. unpampered. yet devoted
Pilgrim Fathers. AS was said of
the New England primer. they
taught millions how to live, and no.
one how to sin"
Americas Debt.
America IS IN debt 20 Holland lin
no small degree" for the principles
o. freedom brought TO her shores
by the Dutch settlers and the Pill
grim Fathers, DIR. De Beaufort de
cIared in an address.
What the Dutch settlers them
selves brought 10 America" he said,
and what the Pilgrims had learned
nm Holland was the principle of
freedom.
The tree schools i'm America. the
doctrine first laid down by a legis-
Iative assembly that the people are
the source OF political AUTHORITY,
ornament religious freedom, the
right 10 petition. freedom OF the
press-all of these institutions
which give to America its distinctive
characters were derived in no small
degree from the example OF Holland,
transmitted through those early