Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-21
Harding Urges
Pan-An1ericanisn1
In Great Speech

ton of peace and liberty as an eX-
ample for a war-weary world, were
plighted by President Harding Tues
day at the unwilling here of statue
to Simon Bolivar. the South American
patriot.
In the example Of a prosperous
family of states living together in
peace on the western hemisphere, the
president declared, the old world
might we'll find inspiration for the
reconstruction of it's industry and
its politics along the lines of prog
ress and amity. To that reconstruct
ton, he said, the American repub-
lies also could contribute in ma
terial sense by giving Of their
strength and resources to aid their
stricken sister nations across the
sea.
Restating the Monroe doctrine, Mr..
Harding asserted, that it never
meant policy of selfishness or mar
rowness, but was Charter Of Amer
lean independence to maintain which
| the United States was willing to
fight, If necessary"
He added that the policy of the
American republics must not err on
the side of too great aloofness, and
that in the present world chaos Pam
Americanism must mean sympathy
and generous Americanism."
Refers to Monroe Doctrine
In his reference to the Monroe
doctrine; the president reviewed mis-
constructions he said had been placed
upon it and alluded to the skepticism
in some quarters that it ever would
be enforced in an emergency.
'"rhe history of the generations
since that doctrine was proclaimed"
he continued, "has proved that we
never intended it selfishly; that we
had no dream of exploitation. On
the other side, the history of the last
decade certainly must have convince
ed all the world that we stand will
i ling to fight, if necessary, to protect
these continents, these sturdy young
democracies, from oppression and,
tyranny"
The address follows, in part
There is significance in dates. as
though some days were destined for
| a
progress, also an abiding place in hui
man affections. This day is the an
niversary of the battle of Lexington,
when the colonies of North America
made their first Sacrifice in blood for
independence and new standards of
freedom On this same day gener-
alton later, Venezuela's struggle for\
freedom had it's immortal beginningN
Americas Gift to Mankind
81 wish April 10 might have an ,
added significance from this day on.
Similarly born and dedicated to new
world freedom, l would like this date
to mark anew for North and South
America not alone the avowal of mu-
tual trust in the fellowship of free
dom and democracy, but new confl-
dence and a new mutually OF pur-
pose in achieving the things when
independence and fellowship so nat
urally inspire. 1t is an interest
ing thing to compare the careers OF
the two great fathers of American
liberty, Bolivar and Washington.
and builded more vastly than he
dreamed. Their concept of liberty
was not inspired in individual un-
rest. Each was wealthy, each rated
among the personally fortunate, but
a peoples freedom was impell1ng.
at is not too much to say that out
of the liberations wrought by Wash
ington and Bolivar grew the repub-
lican constitutional system which is
Americas gift to mankind.
at is fine to be able to say that
new-world temples of liberty were
not wrought in destruction of the
Iold. We speak historically of reVo-
LUTON, when in reality we mean sew
Ierance and freedom from evolution.
The world isn't calling today for
destruction, it\ needs reconstruction.
where the testNof justice is applied
to the things which were as well
las the things which are to be-:
Brought More Closely Together
| "Perhaps the miracle was in the
divine plan, and the new world mar
vel was an inevitable part in the
supreme scheme for developing civil
lization. But we were, when Wash
ington and Bolivar uttered American
aspirations and battled for them,
and are now so interlocked with the
old world from which our founders
came, that, independence! does not
ments of civilization have brought
us more closely together. -.
Liberty without security would
be barren boast, and inspiration
lenge every claim of democracy.
Nothing the Americans can do, moth
| ing Pan-America may aspire to do.
will surpass the contribution of our
youth and resources and our stead
| fast allegiance to our newer institu-
lions to help steady the world and
prove the right of present-day civil
| liZation to go on
| 1--WE have had our contests, inter
national and civil; but on the whole
the tendency under our Republican
| institutions has been toward estab-
| lishment Of those means Of concilia-
| ton, arbitration, and judicial de-
termination by which the menace OF
wa is lessened. No American state
succu led to the temptation of that
militaristic system which laid ever
increasing burdens upon nations
where, and which at last brought
them to crisis in the great war.
There is too little realization Of the
progress that has ben made to-
ward judicial and arbitral settle
ment Of international differences by
the American nations.
with all humility, but in all sin
certify and earnestness, 1 feel that
we Americans, north and south, are
entitled to hold that our democracy
has come as a light into the world
of international relations, and that
it will show us way out of the
worlds present troubles into a day
when mankind may know peace and
plenty and happiness, and when the {
first duty of organized society may
be to promote the welfare of it's
members rather than to array itself
in power against the threat of it's
destruction"
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