New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-05
Visions End of Conflict
in Disarming Meeting,
With War Forever Ban
ished by Civilization
America Better
Liked Than Ever.
Her Policies Approved by
All, He Tells Audience
i'm Weeks's Home Town
By Boyden r. Sparkes

LANCASTER N. H., Aug. 4.-Presi-
dent Harding said to-day that he be-
ieved the world, sick of conflict, was
about to cXpurgate warfare from the
processes Of civilization. Speaking
from the tonneau Of an automobile in
the public green in this White Noun
tain town, the President told the
densely packed throng of a vision he
had just seen from a nearby mountain
top, vision of the world enduringly
at peace.
Full of satisfaction with the recent
ly gained knowledge that Great Britain
and other powers have been persuaded
that there should be no preliminary
talk before the disarmament confer
ence, he spoke with enthusiasm of the
potentialities of the approaching con-
ference, which he believes viii be far
more of peace conference than that
which met at Versailles.
The Presidents Address
The President said, in part:
'In the olden times, in mans primi-
tive state, the occupants of one section.
looking on this beautiful spot with the
desire to possess, would simply arm
hemselves and in their might they
would seize it and make it their own.
Such was the primitive inheritance of
man, and the whole process Of civiliza-
tion has been wrought out Of this tur-
moil and conflict of might. But devel-
oping civilization has called mans at
tention to the fact that it isn't the
just or right way to acquire a thing,
and SO. the story of the world is one
stage after another of developing war-
fare until We of this generation have
witnessed the most gigantic conflict of
all time. This conflict was so gigantic
so costly in treasure and so costly in
sacrifice sthat l believe that we of to-
day are standing in conviction and
IN a determination that the whole de-
velopment has been wrong.
"The requirement through might is
contrary to humane justice and we of
America and all TIE world are resolved
to-day that warfare ought to come to
an end. l. am happy to bring you word
that your government is doing all it
can to bring about a. conference of
nations and have their spokesmen =
there aid come to an understanding
that will remove the causes of war,
not a surrender of nationality, not a
surrender of our liberties or our right
to determine the ways we will pursue,
but to remove the reasons for war and
put an end to costly armament. | be-
lieve we have succeeded. ! would like
to have a little less, or much less, de-
structiOn and more resources for con-
struction in America. I would like to
have less of toll to maintain armies
and navies and more of play to hearten
the American people. | don't believe
the best of success comes out of the
constant grind. | would like an Amer
lea where there is some becoming
leisure and opportunity for recreation,
not for just few people, but for a
fortunate American people in which
all may participate
"I had not thought to speak at
length. I have only come for a word
of greeting. didn't want to come into
pride of the national Adminstration in
your state, as in every state in the
Union. | like to bring yo. word that
in some four months of responsibility
have come to a deeper faith in this
republic of ours.
Tells of Iconoclast in West
81 was reminded of the first piece
of mail that I received on Mount Pros
pect Somebody, somewhere in the
West, had written me long letter
thinking that possibly in the leisure
Of vacation perhaps I would have to
read and ponder. He warned me that
the government must make an end to
the aristocracy, that it was doomed,
and called upon me to behead all those
who had more than he or l had.
"Well, | have never believed that to
be the object o., this great and free
Republic. In my Office as President
have been coming in contact lately
with every sort Of representative in
American life. There have come to
the executive Offices the great leaders
in finance; there have come to the
same Offices the influential leaders of
labor; there have come the leaders in
the various political groups we name
by parties, and while some of them
brought ideas sometimes that would
tend to destroy the government, there
is not ole in any group who deep in
his heart does not want to preserve
our America and contribute to its on
ward march.
Sometimes you think your govern
ment is not alert. Sometimes you
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