Arizona republican., 1921-08-02
PRESIDENT
 HOPES BIG ,
 CONFERENCE WILL BRING PEACE ER A
Harding Says Tolerance Of
 Pilgrim Fathers Bearing Fruit a Thousand Fold
 In Relations Of Nations
IRepubliean A. P. Leased wirel


 PLYMOUTH, Mass, Aug. l. A hope that the disarmament confer ence called by the United States may bring to the world a new era of peace and freedom was expressed by Presi- dent Harding today in an address here at the tercentenary of the land- ing of the Pilgrims.
 Characterizing the international situation as more than promisine,r the president asserted that the seed of common tolerance and under standing planted by the fathers here was beginning to bear fruit thou .sandfold in the relations between na- tions.
 "A new hope looms today" said the president. We are slowly but very surely recovering from the wastes and sorrows and utter disarrange- ments of a catacly sma1 war. Peace is bringing it's new assurances. and penitent realization and insistenf conscience will preserve that peace. Our faith is firmer that wars causes may be minimized and overburden- ing arna ment may be largely dimin- ished. And these. too. without sur- ! render of the nationality which has inspired or the good conscience which has defended.
 The international prospect is more than promising and the distress and Oppression at home are sympotomatic of early recovery. Solvent finan- cially, sound economically. unrivalled in genius, unexcelled in industry, resolute in determination and un- wavering in faith, these United States will carry on"
 In the course of his speech Mir. 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 ter dency to concentrate governmental authority in Washington and to reaf- firm his faith in religion s.s an essen- tial element of good government. The president said in part:
 ''It is not too much to say that the three centuries which have passed since men of our race came here to found new state have been the most I momentous and the most pregnant in all the progress of human kind
 ITO this and the Virginia shore were transplanted the seeds of rep- resentative democracy, the new ideals ] of nationality through associa ton and representation, and there has de- 1 veloped seemingly the most deperd- able form of popular government ever witnessed in the world. | Whether we reflect upon the re- straints upon freedom which the fathers imposed. or measure the l broader liberty under the law of to- day. here began the reign of de- pendable public opiuion which un- failingIy is the law of highest civil ization.
 New England Leads Freedom
 "No one will ever dispute the large part New England paved in the rear ing of new standards of freedom The early struggles here were contempo- raneous with the making of modern British constitutionaism and the new word beacon was an incentive and a1 inspiration across the sea, and to- day Old World and and join in re- joicing at the ends achieved. The beginning of American revolution may fairly be placed back the larger part of a century from the date we conn., munly fixed for it to the great town meeting in the Old South church. fo which was submitted the question whether the colony would consent to the charter reorganization that the king demanded.
 If the idea of religious freedom had little to hope for from the effort of the stern old fathers to set up a theocracy in New England. the ideal
 of political freedom found here a
 particularly fertile soil in which to perminate.
 "The clash between a theocratic tyranny on this side and political , tyranny on the other resulted in the
 destruction of both. to the vast bet , terment of every human interest in- l volved.
 Hand of man alone did not bulk what was founded here: it was but
 the visible sign, the human symbol of a purpose, which We may moi