Arizona republican., 1921-08-03
Some persons can neuer relish the fatll moon, out of respect for that ve1aerable institution, the old one.
 -Dou0l1S .JerrOld.
Tho Guaranty of Tolerance and Liberty

When in his Plymouth Rock address Monday President Harding spoke the principle of toleraton liberty" for which fathers Atlantic he had in mind the setting up that principle by the Puritans on their arrival It would have been outside his purpose and irrelevant to speak of the abandonment of the principle not long afterward and the prevalence of intolerance in New England, where the Puritans were dominant. That became the section of the new world where religious tyranny prevailed for time manifesting itself in the persecution of the Qualers Baptists. forcing itself against all living and habits of thought did not conform to the Puritan nation. How firmly this tyranny might have en- trenched itself but for the American Revolution we cannot say. But that event brought together Puri- tan and Cavalier. each exerting an influence upon the other for the better and making possible the American constitution, which offered guar anty of toleration and liberty that had been given among
 Englishmen who settled in Maryland Virginia snd the Caroinas had come for other and diverse reasons. They had not come for freedom to ship God in particular way; many of them to worship Him at all There a liberalism that amounted license in morals The people concerned themselves only with their worldly relations toward one another. Their conduct was regulated only by such laws as seemed necessary. In their morals there reflected those of the mother country at the time of their departure. /
 Probably but for the event which arrested Puritansm. in the north, the south would have ousy deteriorated but the hand of the revolu- tion laid upon both and Puritanism was made to give rigid but controlled strength to the new people thus organized. and the liberalism of the south was made the instrument to hold it in check
 Stch a fusion, admirable as it was, probably could not have maintained itself by the mere will of the people Conflicts of conscience and of manners would have arisen within short time. The north would have reverted Puritanism and the south to liberalism and there would have been divisions as hopeless those which have always existed among the European states distinguishing one from an- other. however limited their boundaries.
 There was required the charter of tolerance and among the colonies which the war had brought it. Liberty never be entrusted to the human conscience to the changing will of the peo- pie. There are always groups. in most cases hon est. we believe, which ale trying to enforce upon other groups or unorganzed members of society, their peculiar notions of human conduct.
 We have now absolute freedom of worship. None can interfere with that. Yet there are insidous att tempts interfere making plain that but for the guaranty of the constitution these attempts would be made openly the efforts of the Puri- tans suppress weaker religious denominations of their day and 1t would all be done in the name of God, just groups of reformers seek to cur tail the privileges of others in the of morals
 The spirit of Puritanism is something always to honored and maintained in this country, but like fire, it is good servant but a bad master. We are constantly to guard against It's encroachments.