Evening star., 1921-08-01
new WORLD HOPE
!. IN DISARMAMENT,
PRESIDENT SAYS
Delivers Address at Anniver-
sary Celebration of Land
ing of Pilgrims.
Mr., HARDING DECLARES
"U. S. WILL CARRY on"
Thousands Throng to See Historic
Pageant of Coming of Amer
ica's Forefathers.
By the Associated Press.

ica's Forefathers.
By the Associated Press.
PLYMOUTH. Mass. August IA
hope that the disarmament CONFER
ence called by the United States may
bring to the world new era OF
peace and freedom was expressed os
President Harding today in an ao-
dress here at the tercentenary OF the
landing of the Pilgrims.
Characterizing the internationani i
situation as more than promisihs'
the President asserted !nat INC 80
of common tolerance and underseahu
ing planted by the fathers mere was
beginning to bear fruit thousdnu
fold in the relations between nations.
"A new hope looms today, Sald she
President: we are SLOWLY put very
surely recovering from the wastes
and sorrows and utter olsarfahse-
ments of a cataclysmical war. feace
is bringing its new assurances, anu
penitent realization and lnslstent
conscience will preserve that peace.
Our faith is firmer that wars causes
may be minimized and overburden-
ing armament may be largely dimln-
ished. And these. too, without sur
render of the nationality which has
inspired or the good conscience which
has defended.
"U. =. viii Carry On"
The international prospect is more
than promising and the distress and de-
preston at home are symptomatic OF
early recovery. Solvent financially, sound
economically, unrivaied in genius, unex-
celled in industry, resolute in determi-
nation and unwavering in faith, these
United States will carry on
<,f hi Il.
ing praised particularly the part re-
ligious freedom and other New Eng
land traditions had played in develop
Inent of the nation. He also took occa-
sion to deplore the common tenoeneS ;t.,
to concentrate governmental authority
in Washington, and to reafftrm his faith
in religion as an essential element Of
good government.
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
new ste. y ,iayeeheen tho most nofssnfcus
and the most pregnant in all the progress
of human kind
To, this and the Virginia shore were
transplanted the seeds of representative
democracy, the new ideals Of nationality
through association and representation.
and there has developed, seemingly, the
most dependable form of popular gov
ernment ever witnessed in the world.
Colonial Democracy Factor.
Whether we reflect upon the re-
straints upon freedom which the IA
theirs imposed. or measure the broader
liberty under the law Of today, here
began the reign of dependable public
opinion, which unfaflingiy is the law
of highest civilization. One may not
say whether the Puritans at home
would have been able to work out
ouch a system if tGsre had been no
American colonies and the colonial In
1iu-nces to react upon the mother
country. Doubtless the English revo-
luton. which came soon after the set
1lement at Plymouth. would have
come even had there been no settle :
ment here, no Massachusetts Bay col
ony, no Virginia plantation. But 1t
is easy to believe that In the long
struggle after the restoration, the
fruits of the revolution. the strength
ened parliamentary institutions and
the restrictions of royal prerogative
1onial democracy.
mo one will ever dispute the large
part New England played in the rear
ing of new standards of freedom. The
raneous with the making of modern
British constitutionalism and the new
world beacon was an incentive and an
inspiration across the sea, and today
old world and new join in rejoicing at
the ends achieved. The beginning of
American revolution may fairly be
traced, the larger part of a century
from the date we commonly fixed for
it, to the great town meeting in the
Old South Church, to which was sub
mitted the question whether the COL
ony would assent to the charter re-
organization that the king demanded.
Planted I'm Fertile Soil.
II 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
germinate.
The clash between q theocrattc tyr.
amy on this side and a political tyr
amy on the other resulted in the
destruction of both, to the vast bet
terment of every human interest in
Solved-
The men and women who came
here to found in a wilderness, across
a thousand leagues Of ocean waste, a
new state came with high and con-
scious purpose OF achieving a great hu-
man end. Out Of their volumfnous let
tiers, memoirs, public records and his
torical writings we constantly get the
impression Of their deep conviction that
they had been called as divine instru-
nients to accomplish work Of supremest
Significance.
Hand Of men alone did not build
what was founded here; it was but
the visible sign. the human symbol of
a purpose. which we may not under
stand. but for whose benefcence all
men must give tribute of praise and
voice undying gratitude. We may
speculate and conjecture. We may
seek to frame laws Of human relation
ship by which to account for such
results as here have been wrought; but
at last We will have to recognize that
they arc not for us to explain.
Birth Of Freedom.
Tho English-speaking race had
hardly established itself in true char
actor as the foremost exponent Of
liberal institutions when 1t began to