The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1921-08-02
HARDING SEES ERA.
OF WORLD PEACE
International Situation Prom
Using, He Declares.
HOPE LOOMS TODAY"
President, speaking at Plymouth, says
Disarmament Conference is Expected
to Relieve Nations of War Menace.

by the United States lAay bring to the
world Il new era of peace and freedom
WAS expressed by President Harding
in an address here Ill the Iercentenary
of The landing of the Pilgrims.
CharacteriZing the international stu
alton rs more than promising. tn.
president asserted thar the seed o
common tolerance and understanding
planted by the Fathers here was be
ginning To hear fruit Il thousand fold
in The relations between nations.
"A new hope looms today" said the
president We are slowly but very
surely recovering from the WASTES and
sorrows and utter diSarran1cInentS of Il
catarIy >mic war. Peace is bringing its
new assurances; and pentent realiz;l
ton and inSiStent conscience will pre-
81 rye that peace. Our faith is firmer
that he war causes may be minimiZed
and over burdening armament may be
largely diminished. And these, too
without surrender of the nationality
which has inspired or the goo conSc-
ence which has defended.
THE international prospect is more
i han promising and the distress and de
preston at home are symbolic of early
recovery. Solvent financially. sound
economically. unrivaled in genius. uneN-
G., He'd in industry, reSoute in determine
alton and unWavering in faith. these
ni}el States will carry on
The president said in part:
II * not too much to say that the
tire" centuries which have PASSED since
mpn OF our race came here to found Il
I:"W state have been the most mOmen-
touS and the most pregnant in all the
pr"4rt~> Of human kind.
ITO this and the Virginia shore were
tram>lianted the seeds of representa-
tive democracy, the new ideals of ma
! tionalily through association and rep
rs:Scntatinn. and there has been devel-
oitd seemingly the most dependable
form Of popular government ever wit
messed in the world
IF the idea of religious freedom lian
little /" hope for from the effort Of the
stern old fathers tn set up Il theorracy
| IL New England. the ideal of political
freedom found here Il particularly fer
tile soil in which to terminate.
The clash between Il theocra1ic tyr
amy on this side and Il political tyr
amy on the other, resulted i'll the de
structi"n of both. to the vast better
ment of every human interest involved.
The men and women who came here
to- found in Il wilderness, across q
thousand leagues of ocean waste, IL new
state. came with high and conscious
! purpose of achieving Il great human
end. Out of their voluminou> letters.
memoirs. public records and historical
writings, we constantly get the impress
| sion of their deep conviction that they
had been called as divine Instruments
| to accomplish Il work of supremeSt
significance.
The English-speaking race had
| hardly established itself in true char
acter as the foremost exponent of lib
eral institutions when ii began TO dis
tribute itself among the wilderneSses
of the earth. Even before liberty had
been secured from the mother country
its soldiers We're adventuring into dis
tam parts. carrying their ambitions
with them.
The community of free people of our
race, whether in Europe or America.
in Africa or Australia, under the north
ern or the southern skies, was begun
when jamestown and Plymouth were
founded 1t has carried its ideals
wherever it has set its standard. 1t
has won recognition of those ideals as
the basis of social conduct, of commun-
I ity relations, throughout the world.
Its work is not finished, but, pray God,
it has come triumphantly through its
determining ordeal. 1t comes forth
from that test, nerved and heartened
for further tasks: confident, assured,
reliant. None questions either its
place or IFS right Of leadership; few
doubt its destiny to establish. under
that divine guidance which it has ever
recognized, the splendid structure OF
human brotherhood in peace and under
standing.
Eve stand today before the unknown,
but we look to the future with conf
dence mistaken. There is no retrac-
ing: we must forever go on. We vel
come the theories wrought out in new
hope. hut we cling to the assurance
founded on experience. All that is not
bad: all that is to be will not be ideal.
We cannot lift the veil tn the future,
but we can analyZe and understand
what has gone before. 1t is good to
keep our feet firmly on the earth,
though we gaze in high hope for hui
man brotherhood and high attachments.
Just as those Fathers drew together
toward ample authority to make the
nation and still preserve the freedom
of those who compose it, 50 must we
guard against the supreme centraliZa-
ton of th@power at home. and the SUI
perState for the world. More, we must
combat the menace in the growing as
sumption that the state must support
the people, for just government is
merely the guaranty to the pepole of
the right and opportunity of the. peo-
pie to support themselves. The on5
outstanding danger of today is the ten
dency to turn to Washington for the
things which are the tasks or the duties
of the forty-eight commemorative
which constitute the nation. Having
wrought the nation as the central pow
er of preservation and defense, let us
preserve it so.
Here was the early dedication to
religious liberty and political freedom.
1t was Il sublime gift to posterity. We
cannot better express our reverence to-
day than by sweeping aside the errors,
the failures, the disappOintmentS, the
betrayalS of our day, and plant here
for all America and all the world the
standards of highest justice and real
human brotherhood. This would add
to the volume of rejoicing on earth ana
give echo to the heavens of the nObler
aspiration of united mankind. 1t would
lin no torch of liberty which was
lighted here, but would set the world
agl0w with new hopes, new confidence
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