A NEW ROPE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16494, 3 August 1921, Page 5

A NEW ROPE.

AMERICA AND THE FUTURE PRESIDENT HARDING OPT! ERISTIC. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association NEW YORK, August 1. At Plymouth, Massachusetts, President Harding, in a speech at the tercentenary celeb rati odt of the landing of the Pilgrims, said: “ A new hope looms to-day. We are slowly but surely recovering from the wasted sor-. rows and utter disarrangements of the cataclysmic war. Peace is bringing its new assurances and penitent realisation, and insistent conscience will preserve that peace. Our faith is firmer that war’s cusses may be minimised and over-burdening armament may largely diminish, and these, too, without surrender of the nationality which it inspired or the good conscience which it has defended. ' International prospects are more than promising, and distress and depression at home are symptomatic of 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 the community of 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. Wo 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 things which are the task and duties of the forty-eight communities constituting the nation/’