AMERICAN IDEALS
BASED ON RELIGION
HOOVER SURVEYS WORLD
" FOLLOW OUB DESTINY "
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Al King's Mountain battleground, in South Carolina, symbolising the. bonds of friendship and peace between citizens of the United States and Britain, a memorial was dedicated here on Tuesday to Colonel Patrick Ferguson, the British commander, who was slain in the revolutionary battle here.
President. Hoover, delivering' an address on the occasion of the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the battle of King's Mountain, said: "I have lived among many peoples and observed many Governments, and from the experience of many lands I have sometimes compared the different Governmental systems. In the American system, through free and universal education, we train runners and strive to give them.an equal start out. "The Government is the umpire of fairness, and the winner is he who shows the most conscientious training and not the umpire of despotism nor class. The Government picks those who run and also those who win. It is significant that some of these systems deny religion and seek to expel it. I cannot conceive of a wholesome social order or sound economic system that does not have its roots in religious faith. It would be foolish for me to stand here and say that our politicalsocial system works perfectly. It does not. The human race is not perfect yet." Continuing, President Hoover said: "While'we cannot permit any foreign person or agency to; undermiue our institutions, yet wo must look to our own. conduct, that we do iiot weaken our own institutions by our own failure to uphold and safeguard Amsriqa. The world about us is tormented with spiritual and economic struggles that attend changing ideals. Systems and old faiths .ire being shaken, but we must follow our own destiny. Our institutions are a growth. "We can follow them with confidence. Our problems are problems of growth, not of decay."
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 86, 8 October 1930, Page 11
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AMERICAN IDEALS
Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 86, 8 October 1930, Page 11
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