Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-10
REVIEWS THREE CENTURIES
 or AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

Three Centuries of American Democ- | racy was the subject of the lecture dehv- 1 cred Tuesday evening at the Community l house by Charles zuebiin. a prominent speaker of Boston. The lecture. which 1 was the final in the series conducted the past winter by the Brotherhood of the United Congregational church, had 8 good sized attendance.
 MT ZueDln was introduced by Nathan A. Gibbs, president of the Brotherhood. Mir. Zueblin went back Co the days of the sailing of the Mayfower with its 121 Pilgrims, reviewed their narrowing ex- perienees on landing in New England. told of the settlement of Boston a few years later by the Puritans, described their form of governme . beliefs. etc, and gradually led the aua4ence up to the events resulting in the Revolutionary war. From the close of the Revolutionary war he carried the audience through the early history of the 13 original states and l up through the Civil war to the present | day.
 Mir Zueblin compared the size of the Mayfiower with its 1sO tons with the 56,000 ton ships which ply the ocean 1 lanes today. The Mayfower he said, was about the size of Columbus largest | ship. On the Mayhower there were 19 wives and S1 men and children. At the | end of their first winter on our shores | five of the 19 wives were still living. This was the price those brave Pilgrim moth-
 CTS paid for freedom of worship, said the | speaker and for three centuries we have been talking about the Pilgrim fathers The average age of those on the May
 flower was 30 years. The average of the
 settlers of Boston was 40 years Mark
 this distinction between the settlers of Plymouth and Boston. The settlers of Plymouth were Pilgrims while the set | tiers of Boston were Puritans All the people on the Mayfiower were common
 people. There were no people of dis | tinction among them. The oldest man
 on the Mayhower was Myles Standish
 who was 43 The young people settled
 Plymouth; the older people settled Bos-
 ton.
 The lecturer went on to tell how Bos- ton was governed by the church. To be a voter man had to be church mem
 Der. They were compelled to go to
 church but in many cases were not all
 lowed membership in the church There
 fore they could not vote.
 Speaking of John Cotton. Mir Zueblin
 said it was a deadly thing for a minister to be popular. When a minister is potl-
 ular he breaches to the people rather than from the pulpit. John Cotton he , said, had that unfortunate ailment of
 being popular
 He told of Ann Hutchinson's trial for her religious views, and of the court or
 der banishing her from her people Sine
 inquired why she was banished and was : told the court knows wherefore and
 that is sufficient" This comes light down , to our day, said MT. Zueblin. when a
 foreigner can't get the same justice i1 our courts as native.
 The Baptists appeared, and they. ir turn, were banished This was the seque . the more they punished inc Baptists , the more Baptists there were Deporta. = ton is the most stupid way of getting
 rid of an ideal that you can possibly em . ploy. The first two Quakers who ar j. rived were women. They were not al
 lowed to land. The deportation Of an ]. archists may be one way of getting rit l. of anarchists, but it aids their propa | ganda.
 MT. Zueblin went on to tell of the set ;. ting of the 13 original colonies and o l, how they became bound together, ant !. l then described the events leading up t q the Boston tea party and the beginninl '. of the revolution against British rule 5, The speaker said the Revolutionary arm. 7. was wonderful army, sticking througi
 that war, half clad, haff starved
 The framing of the Declaration of Tn
 dependence and the constitution wa E. touched on. Mir Zueblin took fall ou r. of the legislative bodies of the countr
 when he said What is the function O I. an upper and lower legislature? To pre- 5. vent either one from passing a good law
 We have real dilemma at Washingto e that will never be settled by the repu5li 5. can or democratic parties. There Is \, permanent clash between the presider ie and congress, he said.
 t MT. Zueblin spoke briefly in turn C s Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln. th B master statesman of his time" TheC f, dore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. II
 expressed sympathy for President Hard r. ing who, he said. is "up against it. n What can he do with the bonus? Whs J. can he do with the tariff? He can't q
 a thing and satisfy this country, he sait