New Britain herald., 1921-08-01
Speaking At Plymouth Celebration, President Declares International Situation Is More Than Promising
Expresses Hope That New Era of World Peace and Freedom is About to Be Ushered in.
Predicts Early Recovery From Business Depression

Plym outh, Mass, Aug. IA hope that the disarmament conference called by the United States may bring to the world new era of President Harding today in an ad- dress here at the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims
 Characterizing the international situation as more than promising" the president asserted that the seed of common tolerance and under standing planted by the fathers here was beginning to bear fruit, a thou- sand fold in the relations between nations.
 Country Slowly Recovering "A new hope looms today" said the president. We are slowly but very surely recovering from the wastes 7 and sorrows and utter disarrange- 1nents of a cataclysmical war. Peace is bringing it's new assurances. and ipenitent realization and insistent conscience will preserve that peace. Our faith is frmer that wars causes may be minimized. and overburden- ing armament may be largely dimin- ished. And these, too, without sur .ACIQCI O4 tAS HdllOLdlly WHICH Has inspired or the ood conscience which has defended.
 Prospect is Bright.
 The international prospect is more than promising and the dis tress and depression at home are symptomAtics Of early. recovery. .6oeSerst financially. sound economi- cally. unrixalled iA-genius, unexcefled in industry, resolute in determina- tiof and unwavering in faith these United States will carry on.''
 In the course of his speech MT Harding praised particularly the part religious freedom and other New England traditions had played in de- velopment of the nation. He also took occasion to depIore the com mon tendency to concentrate govern mental authority in Washington end to reaffirm his faith in religion as : an essential element of good gov ernment.
 Momentous Centuries.
 The president said in part:
 It is not too much to say that the three centuries which have passed since men of our race cane here to found a new state have beer the most momentous and the mos FSo'iOiie I'll oii IiiO p1 oS1 CSo VI human kind.
 To this and the Virginia shore were transplanted the se/1s of rep resentative democracy, the new ideals of nationality through association an6 representation and there has devel oped seemingly, the most dependable form of popular government ever wit messed in the world. Whether Ws reflect upon the restraints upon free dom which the fathers imposed o1 measure the broader liberty under the law of today, here began the reigr of dependable public opinion, which unfailingly is the law of highest civili zation.
 Revolution Was Inevitable.
 "One may not say whether the Pur itans at home would have been ab1. to work out such a system if ther. had been no American colonies ant the colonial influences to react upol the mother country. Doubtless th English revolution which came sool after the settlement at P1ymoutl would have come even had there beer no settlement here, no Massachusetts bay colony, no Virginia plantation But it is easy to believe that in tn long struggle after the restoration the fruits of the revolution, tn strengthened parliamentary institu tions and the restrictions on roya prerogative were helped by the in huences of colonial democracy.
 NO one will ever dispute the larg part New England played in the rear ing of new standards of freedom. Tn early struggles here were contempor aneous with the making of moder British constitutionalism and the neV world beacon was an incentive an an inspiration across the sea, and to day the Old World and New join i rejoicing at the ends achieved. Tn beginning of American revolutio may fairly be traced the larger pal of century from, the date we com monly fixed for it, to the great tow meeting in the old South church, t which was submitted the questio , whether the colony would 1t t the charter reorganization t tn king demanded.
 Religious Freedom.
 If the idea of religious freedor had little to hope for from the effol of the stern old fathers to set u a theocracy in New England the idea of political freedom found here particularly fertile soil in which t germinate,
 The clash between a theocrati tyranny on this side and a politics tyranny on the other resulted in tn destruction of both, to the vast better
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