The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-10-28
HARDING HOPING
FOR FIRM PEACE

tbNTlNlFb FROM PAGE ONE.
the yrar-tho birthday ~ Roosevelt
lis to- realize that the heart Of the
south throbs for all the nation. TO
the making Of that typical American
OF the new era went equally warmer
strains OF the old south and the
sturdy STOCK that gave the nation It's
empire state.
$50 10 is good. I'm greeting south
crn men and women Of Georgia, TO
recall the career ~ that outstand-
Ing American. who In his NE as In
his lineage, taught us how much we
are ptusporud and exalted hcraus" "
being united. And, coming thus
among you. u is PECULIARLY n salts
faction to speak from the shadow
OF the shaft which you have reared
to the memory OF one who taught
"A reunited nation It's duties, ita OBJ
legations It's possibilities For | re-
call the thrill with which | read, az
"A young man, the address OF Henry
W. Grady tn the New England club.
that most famous Oratlon, ! think,
OF It's generation, that inspiring
call to nation to awaken itself, to
understand that It's yesterday wa3
drad. that It's tomorrow was prog
NJ mt with magnificent opportunity.
lt ever one man was ordained To
ana the voice of q great people, that
man was Grady
South and North Merging.
Neither the atlascs or the elec-
ton returns give us nowadays q de-
pcndablC basis FOR judgment OF
what IN south ana what ~ north
we have been politically anueNing
you when you were not politically
taking Us into camb-and we have
been socially. industrially, cconom-
ically, invading and selling as much
OF your Imperial opportunities as we
could get our han1S on. We have
been polling our capital with your
brains and resources and both sides
earning good dividends on the trans
action, and all the time Jointly max
ing a greater republic,
1T has seemed 70 mo, many times
In the period since the world war
ended. that the world at large might
well let us show It the marvel which
was wrought through a reunited and
restored America. Because there
was the will 20 get down TO work, TO
cease rcLinings aud regrets, we have
among us erected here, out OF the
wrcCkaga that our war wrought. a
country in which we may fitly take
the pride which every American
feels.
surely We will go on. deveiopisg
tho nationality that has given us
faith and weight and power for the
tasks OF the past, knowing there are
other tasks In the future which VIII
demand the utmost We can con-
tribute to them We have learned
along with the reSt, that mankind
must so forward or backward as a
whole; II is not to be expected that
aH4t a
retire. either the race win advance
or it Will rotrograde; II will not
stand still
1T has had a tremendous lesson
and ! am one OF those who firmly
believe that this lesson will be an
alyzed, tested, scrutinized and made
To afford us at least a direction for
future effort. it IL not possible to
believe that all the lessons OF all
the yesterdays VIII have gone In
vain. The value OF education, OF the
studious habit, OF social conscious
ness. cannot but bring Us nearer TO
agreement about some few funda-
montais,
1T should not be needful for me
TO repeat that, In whatever Cnutrl-
. button We can make 10 the establish o.
mcnt OF a better order, we shall not
surrender any " our national indie
Iendeuco. America will be TO-
America FIRST but 1t win never be a
merely selfish America. imagining
to prosper by tho misfortune OF
others, II viii stand FOR the CO.
operation, the mutual helptulnuss,
the wide perceptions which man
kind needs TO cheer and speed 1t on
the way To tho brighter aud better
realm OF Ieace restored and e:saC-
stively assured, or progress resumed
and righteous aspirations impelling
ever great achievements and ever
higher HttaiDuputE