Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-08-01
SEES NEW
ERA OF WORLD PEACE
Has Great Expectations From
Disarmament, He Says IN
Plymouth Address.

sy Associated Press 70 Every Evening
plymouth. Mass. August Ia
hope that the disarmament conferences
called by the United states may bring
TO the world a new era ~ peace and
freedom was expressed By President
Harding to-day n an address here ~
the tercentenary of the Landing of the
Pilgrims
Characterizirg the International
situation az more than promising"
the President asserted that the SOD
Of common tolerance and understand
ing planted by the fathers here was
beginning 70 bear fruit thousaasT-
fold in the relations bstv~-Su nations.
Slowly Recovering From War.
"A new hope looms today said n.
President. We are slowly but very
surely recovering from the wastes ~
sorrows and utter 1isarrangements ~
a cataclysnlical war Peace II bring
ing its new assurances; and peniteut
realization and insistent conscfencs
viii preserve that peace. Our faith j.
firmer that wars causes may be min
imized and overburfening armament
may be largely diminished. And these.
too, without surrender Of the nation
aiity which has inspired or the good
conscience which has defended.
The international prospect is more
than promising and the distress and
depression at home are syrnptounsfi-
Of early recovery Solvent financially.
sound economy, unrivslIed in genius.
unexcelled in industry, resolute in de-
termination and unwavering in faith.
these United States viii carry on.
Praises Religious Liberty.
In the course Of his speech. Mr..
Harding praised particularly the part
religious freedom and other New
England traditions had played in de-
veiopment OF the nation He also took
occasion 70 depIore the common ten
dency 10 concentrate governmental
authority in Washington. ana 10 re-
affirm his faith in religion as an e.
sentiai element OF good government.
The President said in part-
1T is not TOO much 70 say thar
The three CENTURIES which have pzsser
since men Of our race came here 10
found new state have been the most
momentous ana the most pregnant fn
All the progress OF human kind.
To this and the Virginia shore
were transplantsd the seeds OF rem
resentative democracy, the new deals
Of nationality through association ans
representation and there has deveiop-
ed seemingly the most dependable
form Of popular governments ever wit
messed in the world.
Reign OF PubIic Opinion.
Whether We reflect upon the re-
stratnts upon freedom which tha
/ fathers imposed. or measure the
broader liberty under the law Ct today.
mere began the reign OF dependable
public opinion, which unfaililgIy i
The law OF highest civilization. one
may not say whether the Puritans
At home would have been able to
work out such system il there had
been no American Colonies and tn.
colonial influences TO react upon the
mother country. Doubtless the Eng
llsh revolution. which came soon sfter
the settlement AT Plymouth, would
have come even had there been no
settlement here. no Massachusetts,
Bay Colony. no Virginia plantation.
But II Is easy 10 believe that in the
long struggle after the restoration. tbs
fruits OF the revolution. the strength
ened parliamentary Institutions and
the rest. .ctions of royal prerogative
we're helped by the influences OF COLON
ial democracy.
Real Beginning OF Revolution.
No one VIII ever dispute the Iargs
part New England played in the rear
ms Of new standards Of freedom.
The early struggles here were con-
temporaneous with the making of
modern British constitutionalism and
the new world beacon was an in
centive and an Inspiration across the
sea, and today old word and new soia
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