PILGRIM FATHERS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 170572, 3 August 1921, Page 7

PILGRIM FATHERS.

TEIIOENTENAKV CELEBRATIONS

SPEECH BY AIR HARDING. By Electric Telegraph —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Received 5.5. p.m.. August 2. NEW YOlliv, August 2. At Plymouth, AlassactauKetts, Mr Harding,"'in a .speech at tho tercentenary celebrations of tlio Landing cl the Pilgrim Fathers, said: — “ A new' hop© looms to-day. AA e are slowly but surely recovering from vastino* sorrows, and the utter uifin.rnuigemerits of a cataclysmic war. Peace is ’Cringing its new'- assurances, and pendent- realisation and insistent conscience will preserve tbla-t peace. Our faith is firm that war’s causes may be minimised, and that- overburdening armament may largely diminish, and these too, without the surrender of the nationality which it inspired or the .gooff conscience which it lias defended.

“International prospects are more than promising, and distress and depression at Homo are- symptomatic of a.n early recovery. AYe are solvent financially, sound economically, unrivalled in genius, unexcelled in industry and unwavering in fa-itli. These United States will carry on the community of Iree 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. AYo stand to-day before tho unknown, but we look to tho luturo with unshaken, confidence. “Ono outstanding danger _ to-day is the tendency to turn to Washington for things which are- the task and <llll- - of tho 43 communities constituting the nation. ’