The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-08-04
In Address at Plymouth
President Tells of Dis
armament Meet.
Is MORE PROMISING
President Points Duty of Ma
ton in Bringing New Era of
Good Will to the World.
fRr Associated Press Leased wire. J

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 Pilgrims.
Characterizing the international stu
alton as more than promising" the
president asserted that the need of
common tolerance and understanding
planted by the fathers here was begin
ming to bear fruit a Thousand fold in
the relations between nations. :.
"A new hope looms today" said the
president; eve are slowly but very
surely recovering from the wastes and
sorrows and utter Heterogeneous of
a cataclysmical war. Peace is bringing
it's new assurances; and penitent real
ization and insistent conscience will
preserve that peace. Our faith is firm
er that wars causes may be minimized
and overburdening armament may be
largely diminished. And these, too,
without surrender Of the nationality
which has inspired or the good con-
science which has defended.
"The international prospect is that
more than promising and the distress
and depression at home are symptom
attic of early recovery. Solvent fnan-
cially, sound economy, unrivalled in
genius, unexcelled in industry, resolute
in determination and unwavering in
faith, these United States Will carry
on"
Praises Religious Freedom.
In the course of his speech Mr..
Harding praised particularly the part
religious freedom and other New Eng
land traditions had played in develop
ment of the nation. He also took occa
sion to deplore the common tendency
to concentrate governmental authority
in Washington, and to ~reafirm his
faith in religion as an essential ele-
ment of good government.
The president said in parH
at is not too much to- say that the
three centuries which have passed
since men of our race anne here to
found new state have been. the most
momentous and the most pregnant in
all the progress of human kind.
"To this and the Virginia shore were
tive democracy, the new ideals of ma
tionality through association and rep
resentation, and there has developed
seemingly the most dependable form
of popular government ever witnessed
in the world
whether we reflect upon the re-
straints upon freedom which the faith
ers imposed, or measure the broader
liberty under the law Of today, here
began the reign of dependable public
opinion which unfailingly is the law
of highest civilization.
cone may not say whether the Puri
tans at home would have been able to
work out such a system if there had
been no American. colonies and the
colonial influence to act upon the moth
er country. Doubtless the English rev
olution which came soon after the set
tIement at Plymouth, would have come
even had there been no settlement
here. no Massachusetts, Bay colony, no
Virginia plantation. But it is easy to
believe that in the long struggle after
the restoration, the fruits of the revo-
luton, the strengthened parliamentary
institutions and the restrictions of
royal prerogative were helped by the
influences of colonial democracy. .
New England's Great Part.
"No one will ever dispute the large
part New England played in the rear
ing of new standards of freedom The
early struggles here were contempora-
neous with the making of modern Britt
ish onstitutionalism 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
the American revolution may fairly be
traced to the larger part of a century
from the date we commonly fixed it,
to the great town meeting in the Old
South Church, to>which was submitted
the question whether the colony would
assent to the charter reorganization
that the king demanded.
eff the idea of religious freedom had
little to hope for from the effort of
the stern old fathers to set up
theocracy in New England, the ideal Of
political freedom found here particu
larly fertile soil in which to terminate.
''The clash between theocratic tyr
amy on this side and political tyran
ny on the other resulted in the destruc-
tion of both, to the vast betterment Of
every human interest involved.
"The men and women who came here
to found in a wilderness, across
thousand leagues of ocean waste, a
new state, came with high and con-
scious purpose of achieving a great
human end. Out of their voluminous
letters memories, public records and
historical writings, we constantly get
the impression of their deep conviction
that they had been called as divine in
struments to accomplish a work of su-
preme significance.
Looking With New Hope.
eve stand today before the unknown
but we look to the future with conf
dence mistaken. There is no retracing;
we must forever go on. We welcome
the theories wrought out in new hope
but we cling to the assurance founded
on experience All that is not bad; all
that is to be will not be ideal. We
cannot life the veil to the future but
we can analyze and understand what
has gone before. 1t is good to keep
our feet firmly on the earth though we
gaze in high hope for human brother
hood orJ bigh attainment