The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-07-09

vive their respect for those institutions, spread
understanding Of what they mean, insure their
safety, encourage their growth. Never has 1t
been more important for us to teach the lesson |
Of liberty through law, of sacrifice for common
GAIN of righteousness for its sake"
Mr.. Luce, in his remarks during debate,
brought out this noteworthy point:
zone feature of their first year two here
that Is not commonly known would be Of especial
value to bring to the knowledge Of all the people
OF the land by this commemOratlOn. They at
tempted q communisc settlement Communism.
the cry Of the hour by so many radcals-commu-
nism at the very outset of the foundation Of New
England had its full and fair test and communism
failed. Only when they had abandoned the COM
munistc idea and secured an agreement that each
should enjoy the fruits Of his labOrs, that what
each might wrench from the stubborn soil should
be the reward Of his efforts, that their fields and
homes should no longer be held In common, OnlS
then was the colony put upon basis Of possible
permanence."
mistake commonly made by people who
should know better Is that they make no dstinc
ton between Pilgrims and Puritans. There is all
the difference In the world. Mr.. Tess of Ohio
touched upon this difference when he said:
II want to note one general error in history
when the conduct Of early New England is
matter of discussion: We usually speak of the
persecution that was exercised In this part Of
the country, especially in Massachusetts,, and we
identifysit with this particular Massachusetts set
Element! That Is not accurate That is not his
toric. The persecution that caused good many
persons to leave the Massachusetts, colony was
not by the Pilgrims. The Massachusetts colony
Of 1923 was not Identical with the Pilgrims OF
1920. The persecution by the Purtans, and
the historian will not make the mistake Of con-
fusing the Pilgrim with the Puritan although
the latter term was generally applied to all the
vi 0 how two
tirely different peoples"
Mr. Fess might have gone farther and made the
difference between the Pilgrims and the Puritans
more plain: The main distinction is religious,
and Is aptly illustrated by the old saying, 1.-THE
Puritan's fell first upon their knees and then upon
the aborignes"
Which Is to say: The Pilgrims came to Amer
ica to worship after their own fashion and cared
nothing how others might worship The Puri-
tans came here to worship after their own fash
ion and to make everybody else worship after
that fashion.
Moreover: The Pilgrims came first In 1920
They never were very many. They did little colo
nizing. They are not the people who settled New
England. They were passive rather than aggres.
sve. They were "separahsts." They had sepa-
rated from the Church of England and had no
farther concern with the established church of
their native land.
The Purltans began to arrive In $780, In the
Purtans never separated from the Church OF Eng.
land Instead they boosted that they brought II
with them to reform 1t. Hence the ''persecution.
OF which Mr.. Fess speaks. The Puritans womb
have none who would not worship as they them
selves did. They converted the Indians They
executed and whipped Quakers and drove out
Baptists, Episcopaiians and Others Their "per
secutions" drove Roger Williams to Rhode Island
to found Providence and Hooker and Dayenport
TO Connecticut to found Hartford and New Haven
Ihey even split up among themselves: about every
generation church would find itself divided into
FACTIONS. whereupon one faction would leave and
FOUND new town and church.
1t Is from the Purians that we got enc col,
eorated Puritan conscience; not from the Pill
grims
However. from political viewpoint the IN,
nuence or the Pilgrims and Puritans was RI j,
same The Pilgrims politically represented what
the Puritans furthered. Out of these cburch s.,.
uements grew the town meeting and local self
government and later the constitutional suorema
cy idea of government.
In contrast with the Plymouth idea 10 m,
jamestown idea-out OF which ultimately came
the doctrine of state rights
1t Is interesting to note that TODAY tho s,...
rights doctrine is by no means confined 70 ,hs
south while the Capitalization of eovernman.
IDEA Is probably stronger In the south uun /. N.
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