New-York tribune., 1921-10-28
u. S. Showing
Way to Peace,
Harding Says
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deplored the tendency manifested by
some groups to dominate government
he said, and WAS determined that his
Administration should never abide such
movements.
Fall Nominates Him Again
At the luncheon at the Druid Hill
Club Secretary Fall nominated Presi-
dent Harding for second term when
he said:
"lf God in His wisdom allows him to
live the present will not be the only
term of Mr. Harding. There will be a
united country in every respect and
you will realize that he is q democrat
after the type of Grover Cleveland"
The President in speaking briefly at
the luncheon said:
II have been preaching a gospel for
many years. 1t is nothing but the
gospel Of understanding. We ought to
understand one another throughout the
republic and when we understand we
ought to try to have the world under
stand US and we should make effort to
understand the world, and when this
comes, when We understand, with q
conscience that abides, there will be no
room for conflict or controversy. The
force of the example and the power of
purpose of this republic will have its
great influence "u the course of the
world"
In his speech at the Grady Monu-
ment the President said in part:
81 believe it wholly consistent to
preach peace and its triumphs in that
convincing sincerity which an unselfish
nation commands and yet make sure
about our proper defense.
OF hor 6pU "a nj n
hands volume of the letters of q
group of eminent Georgians of the
Civil War and reconstruction period. In
| the main, they represented the CORE
spondence of Alexander II. Stephens,
Howell Cobb, Robert Toombs and
Governor Joe Brown. Especially was
l interested in the extensive CORE
| spondence between these Southern lead
ers and prominent men of the North,
| which WAS carried on at that period.
1t was nothing less than astonishing to
note how little of bitterness. of resent
ment, of hatred and recalcitrance was
manifested on either side. They were
all back in the harness, working for
the restoration of their states, their
people, their preserved country. They
held their heads high, had no apologies
to make for the past, but were looking
/ clear-eyed to the future of indissoluble
union.
"That was the spirit which made re-
construction, despite bungling and
some exceptional manifestations of
| acerbity, on the whole so rapid and
effective a process when measured by
like incidents in human history. They
wanted to be taken back into full fell
lowship.
at has seemed to me, many times in
In ,1I 4
that the world at large might we'll let
us show it the marvel which was
wrought through reunited and re-
stored America. Because there was
the will to get down to work, to cease
replnings and regrets, we have among
us erected here out of the wreckage
that our war wrought, q country in
which we may fitly take the pride
which every American feels.
"Surely, we will go on, developing
the nationality that has given us faith
and weight and power for the tasks
OF the past, knowing there are other
tasks in the future which will demand
the utmost we can contribute to them.
We have learned, along with the rest,
that mankind must go forward or back
ward as a whole; it is not to be ex-
! pected that some sectors shall advance
| as others retire. Either the race will
advance or it will retrograde; it will
not stand still.
at has had tremendous lesson, and
/ am one of those who firmly believe
that this lesson will be analysed,
tested, scrutinized and made to afford
US at last direction for future effort.
"I believe that every gold star
mother or manned veteran will agree
that peace is preferable to war, and
that to train a world in the ways Of