The New York herald., 1921-08-02
new WORLD PEACE
TOBRING PROSPERITY
PRESIDENT ASSERTS
Declares at Plymouth Rock
Disarmament Will Help
Lift Burdens.
SITUATION PROMISING
Says international Affairs
Point Way to Economic
Recovery.
WARNS OF SUPERsTATE
Would Have People Guard
Against Capitalization Of
Power i'm America.
WARNS OF SUPERSTATE

Special Despatch to THE New York HERALD
PLYMOUTH, Mass, Aug. Stand
ing within few yards Of Plymouth
Rock, the Birthstone of America"
President Harding to-day renewed
bis pledges to the American people in
a declaration for the integrity of the
nation and the preservation Of private
rights as opposed to paternalism.
The people, he said, must guard
against the supreme Capitalization Of
power at home and the superstate for
the world. Almost in the same breath
lie said, more we must combat the
menace in the growing assumption
that the State must support the peo-
pie, for just government is merely
the guarantee to the people of the
right and opportunity Of that people
to support themselves"
Peace, the President said, is bring
ing new assurances for recovery from
extravagances and wastes of the war,
for economic recovery and for dis
armament with a consequent lifting
Of burdens.
The coming of the President was
the crowning event in months ef cele-
bration Of the tercentenary Of the
landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in
1921. AS part Of the celebration the
trials and accomplishments of the
| founders of the nation and the his
tory making achievements of their
descendants were reviewed in pa.
geant form in a parade and huge
spectacle. Most of the events were
staged in huge amphitheatre below
Coles Hill, where the first settlement
! in New England was located.
| Hopes for Peace Era.
A hope that the disarmament con-
ference called by the United States
may bring to the world new era of
peace and freedom was expressed by
| the President at the outset of his
speech, which was heard by 10000
persons. Characterizing the interna-
tional situation as more than prom
! ising," the President asserted that
! the seed OF common tolerance and
understanding planned by the Fathers
here was beginning to bear fruit a
thousand fold in the relations be-
tween nations.
"A new hope looms to-day" said
the President. 1--WE are slowly but
very surely recovering from the
wastes and SORROWS and utter disar-
rangements of a cataclysmal war.
Peace is bringing its new assurances.
and penitent realization and insistent
conscience will preserve that peace.
Our faith is firmer that wars causes
may be minimized and overburden-
ing armament may be largely dinin-
ished. And these, too, without sur
render of the nationality which has
inspired or the good conscience which
has defended.
"The international prospect is
more than promising and the distress
and depression at home are sympto-
matte of early recovery. Solvent
financially, sound economically, un-
rivalled in genius, unexcelled in in
dustry, resolute in determination and
unwavering in faith. these United
Cfatos will "a rrv on
. Brought Democracy Here.
! The President said in part:
1T Is not too much to say that the
three centuries which have passed
since men OF our race came tere to
found a new state have been the most
momentous and the most pregnant in
all the progress of human kind. To
this and the Virginia shore were
transplanted the seeds of representa-
tive democracy, the new ideals OF ma
tionality through association and rep
resentation, and there has developed,
seemingly. the most dependable form
OF popular government ever witnessed
| In the world.
Whether we reflect upon TIE re-
straints upon freedom which the
fathers imposed. or measure the
broader liberty under the law of to-
day. here began the reign of depend
able public opinion, which unfailingly
is the law OF highest civilization. One
may not say whether the Puritans at
home would have been able to work
out such system II there had been
no American colonies and the Colonial
influences to react upon the mother
country. Doubtless the English revo-
luton. which came soon after the set
tiement at Plymouth. would have come
even had there been no settlement
here, no Massachusetts Bay colony, no
Virginia plantation. But It is easy to
believe that in TIE long struggle after
the Restoration, the fruits Of the
Revolution. the strengthened parlia-
mentary institutions. and the restric-
tions on royal prerogative we're helped
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