Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-08-01
RELI IGIOUS FREEDOM
PRAISED FOR PART /
in DEVELOPMENT
Tercente tenary Celebration Is
Being Held at Place Where
Pilgrims Landed.
Thousands Of People Hear
. Presid lent Deliver His Ad-
dress For Occasion.

dress For Occasion.
Plymouth, Aug. IA hope that
the disarmament conference called by
the United States may bring to the
world a new era Of peace and free
dom was expressed by President
Harding today in an address here
at the tercentenary Of the landing Of
chAracterizing 4 the international
situation as more than promising .
the president asserted that the seed
OF common tolerance and understand
ing planted by the fathers here wa,
beginning to bear fruit, thousand
fold in the relations between nations
"A new hope looms today, we are
slowly but very surely recovering
from the wastes and sorrows and ut
ter disArrangements Of cataclysnical
war Peace is bringing its new as
surances; and penitent realization
and insistent conscience will preserve
that peace. Our faith is frmer that
wars causes may be rninimized and
over-bufdening armament may be
= largely diminished. And these. too,
without surrender Of the nationality.
which has inspired or the good con-,
/ science which has defended.
Y THE International prospect Is
9 more than promising and the distress
and. depression at home are sym.
tomato OF early recovery. Solvent
financially, sound economy. unrivalled
resolute in determination and un-
wavering in faith, these United States
will carry on" 4 @Et
,ssl rar.iaoa T2al,r,o,, sss
In the course tof4 his speech Mr..
Harding praised particularly, the part
religious freedom and :otlrer New Eng
,nent OF the nation. He also. took oc-
casion to deplore the common tend
]! s!ency to concentrate government au-
thority In washington, and to re-
affirm his faith sfn' the religion as an
essential element Of good govern
ment s. *,
The president said in part;a
'..It Is not too much to say that the
three centuries which have passed
since men. OF our race came here to
found a new state. have been the
most MON Sntous and the most preg-
.nant In all the progress Of human ian
kind. $50: Il;
ITO this and the Virginia shore
were transplanted the seeds of rep-
resentative democracy, the, new ideals
of nationality through association and
representation and there has devel-
oped seemingly the most dependable
form of Popular government ever Wit
messed in the world. &.
Whether we reflect on the re-
straints upon freedom which the ia
theirs imposed.sor measure the broad
er liberty y@npder the law of today,
here began the reign Of dependable
public opinion, which unfailingly is
the law Of highest civilization. On.,
may not say whether the Puritans
such a system II, there had been no
American colonies and the colonial
influence to act upon the mother
country. Doubtless the revolution
which came soon after the settlemen
at Plymouth would have come even
II there had been no settlement here,
no Massachusetts, Bay colony, no .Vir-
ginia plantation. But it is easy to be-
lieve that in the long struggle after
the restoration, the fruits Of the revo-
luton. the strengthened parliamen-
tary institution and the restrictions of
royal prerogative were helped by the
influences OF colonial democracy.
Played Big Part. r
mo one will ever dispute the large
part New England played in the rear
ing Of new standards of freedom. The
early struggles here were contempor-
aneous with the making OF. modern
British constitutionalism and the new
world beacon was an incentive and
an Inspiration across the sea and to-
day old world and new join in re-
joictng at the ends achieved. The be
ginning Of the American revolution 2,
may fairly be traced to the larger
part OF century from the date we
town meeting in the old South church
o to which was submitted the question
Of whether the colony. would assent u
the charter REORGANIZATION thaf the
king demanded. * J. & t5s$
n 3"If the idea Of religious freedom
had little to hope for from the efforts
Of the stern old rathers to set up q
ofspolitical freedom found here q par.
ticularly fertile soil In which to ger.
'The clash between q theocratis
tyranny on this side and a politica,
tyranny on the other resulted ii the
destruction OF both, to the vast bet.
terment OF every human interest in.
volved. ttfi3y al sSs 4, a
THE men and women who, came
here to found in q wilderness, across
a thousand leagues Of ocean waste
a new state escame With high and con,
q sctous purpose OF achieving grea;
human end. Out OF their volumtnou.
letters, memories purposes ani his
torical writings we constantly get Thu
Impression Of their deep conviction
that they had been called as divine
Instruments to accomplish a work ol
suprernist Significance. q; !. HI q
Hand Of men alone did not built
what was founded heressit was bu
the visible sign, the human symbo
of a purpose. which we may not un
derstand, but for whose beneficenc.
ali men must give tribute Of prais,
ana voice undying gratitude. We ma!
4 speculate and conjecture. We ma,
\ seek TO frame laws OF human relas
tionship, by which 70 account for suci
results az here have been wrought
nut at last We will have to recosniz.
that they are not for US to explain
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