A LAND OF PROMISE

Otago Witness, Issue 3517, 9 August 1921, Page 19

A LAND OF PROMISE

PRESIDENT HARDING’S FAITH. NEW YORK, August 1. At Plymouth i Massachusetts) President Harding, in a ;>p cell at the tercent mary celebrations of tiie landing of the Pilgrims, said: “ New hope looms to-day. We aro slowly but surely recovering from the waste, sorrows, and utter disarrangements of the cataclysmic war. Peace ’8 bringing its new assurances and a penitent realisation, and an insistent conscience will preserve that peace. Our faith 's firmer. War’s causes may be minimised and overburdening armament may largely diminish, and these, too, without the surrender of the nationality which it inspired, or the good conscience which it has defended. The international prospects are more than promising, and the distress and depression at Home are symptomatic of an early recovery. We are solvent financially, sound economically, unrivalled in genius, unexcelled in industry, and unwavering in faith. These the United .States will carry on in the community of the free people of our race, whether in Europe or America, Africa or Australia, under northern or southern skies. That community was begun when Jamestown and Plymouth were founded. We stand to-day before the unknown, but we look to the future with unshaken confidence. One outstanding danger to-day is the tendency to turn to Washington for the tilings which are the tasks and the duties of the 48 communities constituting the nation.” WARS TO BE ENDED. WASHINGTON, August 4. At Lancaster (New Hampshire) President Harding, in a speech said : “Nothings on earth can prevent America from fubTlfing her God-given destiny. America to-day is more firmly founded than ever, and it is my hope before my term of office has expired that the tilings for which we have stood will be so firmly rooted that man can give his attention to the pursuits of peace and the attainment of those higher ends which God intended.” Air Harding, continuing, said he believed that all the world was resolved that warfare should he brought to an end. He was happy to state that tha Government was engaged in an enterprise whitfh., without involving tbe surrender of nationality or liberty or right, would remove the reasons for war and would put an end to it. "I think we will succeed,” he concluded.