New-York tribune., 1921-06-06
Will Maintain Every Her.
itage and Yet Help HUI
rnanity to Reach High
er Plane, HE Declares
To Suffer if Need
Be fo1. Standards
Asserts at Valley Forge
That Nation Must Guard
Against Old Injustnes
Special Dispatch to TIE Tribune

VALLEY FORGE, Pa, June g.
President Harding, in an address at the
Memorial Chapel on this Revolutionary
War camping ground to-day. said
America must play leading part in
the reconstruction Of the world. He
insisted, however, that meanwhile this
nation must maintain its freedom of
thought and action.
Mr. Harding said he knew that his
audience wanted to know something Of
his policy in this respect.
Perhaps you like me to say it." he
said, because I am answerable to you
for the policy of the Republic. believe
l speak what is in your hearts and the
hearts OF all Americans when I saw we
ought to have the courage the appre-
citation, the resolution, the conscience
and the Judgment to maintain un-
changed the foundations of the fathers
and, ever mindful of their sufferngs,
still play our part to humanity.
"I can think of an America that can
humanity throughout the world to
reach little higher plane.
When l pledge America to world
helpfulness, at the same time l exact
the pledge that America will cling to
her independence of action and to her
own conscience"
The world, SO beset by "vandais,"
could never right itself again without
Americas aid, the President said She
must assist in the establishment of
peace and good will.
Will Keep independence
~ can think of no finer place in
which 60 renew our vows of fealty than
this spot" he continued "It is good
60 come 20 this shrine of liberty. If
we could bring ell Americans here we
could effect realization Of our great
inheritance which would stabilize Amer
lean resolution.
"Yet in drawing inspiration from the
men who suffered here do not mean to
say that the order established by Wash
ington and other heroes is to be held to
resist human progress. Our supreme
task is to preserve the fundamentals Of
our liberty and to resist the forces Of
disorder and evil.
We want to say to ourselves that
car America is 100 per cent American
for all time
AS the President and Mrs. Harding,
accompanied by Senator and Mrs. Knox,
Brigadier General Sawyer, the Presi-
dents physician, and George Christian,
the Presidents secretary, approached
twcnty-one guns was fired by troops
o. the 107th Field Artillery.
When Mrs. Harding entered the Pres
iocltial pew she found a bouquet of
roses presented by the congregation.
The service was short. Immediately
after the benediction the Presidential
party went outside to the chapel bal
cony, from which the President spoke.
More than 1000 persons were assembled
in the grounds to hear him.
Hardings Address
The President said:
II have always been grateful TO nv
good friend, Senator Knox, for the
service he rendered to the nation as
one Of its ablest statesmen, but find
myself paying the tribute Of added
gratitude, because to-day for the sec
ond time he has made it possible for
me to come to this shrine Of American
patriotism and join with you in tribute
liberty and nationality. | thought
while the rector was speaking how in
dissoiubly we are linked with the be-
ginning. Washington came to Valley
Forge in the making of the Republic, and
you made him President because of the
things he did here, and a century and
a third afterward I come as President
because we share the heritage he left
US and we can join in paying tribute to
his service.
ut is good to come to this shrine of
liberty, not alone TO offer willing trib-
ute to those who perished here, but to
rededicate ourselves to the patriotism
which suffered and sacrificed here in
order that our new standards Of free
dom and democracy should abide.
: valley Forge tested the heroic reso-
luton Of the New World contenders for
liberty: In the crucible Of suffering
they blended the conflicting elements
OF the colonies and revealed the metal
Of the Republic.
"They proved that lofty heroism is
to its standards at Valley Forge will
hold fast and suffer, if need be, until
our inherited institutions are justified
and guaranteed anew to this generation
and all posterity.
IF we could only bring all America
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