Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-08-01
PRESIDENT Sees I'M
COMING CONFER EnCE
HOPE OF THE FUTURE
Plymouth, Mass, Aug. IA hope that the dis
armament conference called by the United States
may bring to the world era of peace and free

dom was expressed by
President Harding today
in an address here at the
Tercentenary Of the landing Of the
Pilgrims.
Characterizinu the international
situation 'More than promising" the
president asserted that the seed of
common tolerance and understanding
planted by the fathers here was be-
ginning to bear fruit a 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 disar-
rangements of a cataclysmical war.
Peace is bringing its new assurances,
and penitent realization and insistent
conscience will preserve that peace.
Our faith is hrmer that wars causes
may be minimized and Qverburdening
armament may be largely diminished.
And these, too, without surrender of
the nationality which has inspired or
the good conscience which has de-
Tended the principles of democracy.
Sees Business Readjusted.
"The International prospect is more
than promising and the distress and
depression at home are symptomatic
of early recovery. Solvent financial
ly, sound economically, unrivalled in
genius, under excellent industry, res
Olute in domination and unwavering
in faith. these United States will car
ry on
In the course of his speech Mr..
Harding praised particularly reli-
gious freedom and other New Eng
land traditions had played in devel-
upment of the nation He also took
occasion to deplOre the common ten
dency to concentrate governmental
authority in Washingtno, and to re-
a rm his faith in religion as an es-
sential element of good government.
The president said in part
ut 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 momentous and the most preg-
nant in all the progress of human
kind
Democracy Sown There.
"To this and the Virginia shore
were transplanted the seeds of repre-
sentative democracy, the new idea
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 upon the re-
staints upon freedom, which the
fathers imposed, or measure the
broader liberty under the law today,
here began the reign of dependable
public opinion which unfailingly is
the law of highest civilization.
"No one will ever dispute the large
part New England played in the rear
ing of new standards of freedom, The
early struggles here were cOnsem-
poraneous with the making of mod
ern British cOnstitutiOnalism and the
new world beacon was an incentive
and an inspiration across the sea,
and today the old world and the new
Join in rejoicing at the ends achieved.
The beginning of the American rev.
olution may fairly be traced to the
larger part of a century from the
date we commonly fixed for it, to the
great town meeting in the old South
church, to which was submitted the
question whether the colony would
assent to the charter reorganization
that the king demanded"