The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1921-08-05
new PEACE ERA
HARDING'S HOPE
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World Situation Promising,
President Says At
Plymouth.

Plymouth Mass, Aug. IA hope
ed by the United States may bring
TO the world a new era of peace and
freedom was expressed by President
Harding today in an address here
at the tercentenary of the landing
of the Pilgrams.
Characterizing the international
situation "as more than promising"
the President asserted that the seed
of common tolerance and understand
ing planted by the fathers here was
beginning to bear fruit a thousand
fold in the relations between nations.
"A new hope looms today" said
the President I'VE are slowly but
very surely recovering from the
wastes and SORROWS and utter disa-
rangements of a cataclysmical war.
Peace is bringing its new assurances,
and penitent realization and insistent
conscience viii preserve that peace.
Our faith is flrmer that wars causes
may be minimised ana Overburdening
armament may be largely diminished.
And these, 90, without surrender of
the nationality which has inspired or
the good conscience which has de-
Tended.
THE international prospect is
more than promising and the distress
and depression at home are symptU. |
matte of early recovery. Solvent fl /
nanoially, sound economically, I'M
rivaled in genius, uneXcelled in in |
dustry, resolute in determination and /
unwavering in faith, these United /
States will carry on"
In the course of his speech Mr.. :
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 deplore the common
tendency to concentrate governmental
authority in Washington and to re-
affirm his faith in religion as an es-
sential element of good government.
MomentOus Centuries.
The President said in part:
1T 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-
nGnt in all the progress of human
kind.
ITO this and the Virginia shore
were transplanted the seeds of re-
spOnsive democracy, the new ideals
of nationality through association and
representation, and there has develop
cd seemingly the most dependable
form in popular government ever
witnessed in the world.
Whether we reflect upon the re-
straints upon freedom which the ia
theirs imposed, or measure the broad '
er liberty under the law of today, ]
here began the reign of dependable
public opinion which unfailingly is {
the law of highest civilization. One I
may not say whether the Puritans at {
home would have been able to work I
out such a system if there had been [
no American colonies and the colonial I
influences to react upon the mother /
country. Doubtless the English revo- c
luton which came soon after the set /
Element at Plymouth would have 4
come even had there been no settle
meat here no Massachusetts Bay colo [
ny, no Virginia plantation. But it
is easy to believe that i'm the long s
struggle after the restoration, trade
fruits of the revolution the strength
ened parliamentary institutions and 2
the restrictions of royal prerogative n
were helped by the influences of CO. t
lonial democracy. s
NO one will ever dispute the large d
part New England played in the rear h
ing Of new standards of freedom. "
The early struggles here were con- II
temporaneOus with the making of Il
modern British cOnstitutionalism and D
the New World beacon was an incen- Il
tive and an inspiration across the sea Vi
and today Old World and New join {,
in rejoicing at the ends achieved. The o
beginning of American revolution {,
may fairly be traced the larger part Il
OF century from the date we COM d
monty fixed for it TO the great town W
meeting in the Old South Church, to II
which was submitted the question C,
the colony would assent to ic
the charter reorganiza ion that the
King demanded. re
"lf the idea of religious freedom d,
had little TO hope for from the effort to
Of The stern old fathers to set up a re
thcocracy in New England. the idea as
O.. r,..,.cal freedom touad here par di
tcuiarly fertile soil in which to ger d.