The Holbrook news., 1921-07-01

and blackened the heavy strokes of the quill he remarked to his fellow delegates:
 But we must be unanimous there must he m pulling different ways. We must all hang to- gether."
 We must indeed all hang together" replied Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania GOT most as- suredy we shall all hang separately"
 We Americans of 1921 can read a lot between the lines of these two historic utterances if we do a little digging into before-the- Revolution American history-enough digging to get clear Idea of what brought about the Declaration of Independence. And it is every good Americans patriotic duty to do that same digging-and do It now. Of course we're not all tarred with the same brush but-to use more time-honored Amer lean similes-its dollars to doughnuts that the average American doesn't know enough to last him across the street about the causes leading up to the Revolution. And for the Declaration it. self he couldn't to his life tell what half of 1t means. This is bad business in itself and it's especially bad right now.
 For we are going to have new kind of Fourth of July celebration in the United States of Amer lea. The Fourth has quit being the day of fire works and casualties. And in the new kind of Fourth of July celebration the Declaration of h. dependence will come to its as the crowning touch of public observance, The American Rev olution is the greatest steppingstone in the march of the centuries toward freedom and the Declara- tiOn of Independence is its symbol.
 Though the Declaration of Independence Is to back to its own, the new Fourth will not be the day when the American Eagle screams and the orator bawls because Uncle Sam handed John Bull century and half ago. There two reasons for this.
 One is the World war. John Bull and Uncle Sam stand shoulder to shoulder in defense of all that our common holds dear of personal freedom and political ideals%
 The other is the fact that the Revolution not quarrel between two peoples-the British people and the American people. It was, in it's earlier stages at least, strife between two diff erent political and economic systems. It was no unrelated event, but formed part of the history of the on both continents. There was Brit ish revolution at the time there American Revolution. The British revolution to regain liberty. The American Revolution to preserve liberty. On both sides of the Allan tic the kings prerogatives were the aim of rev olutionary attack.
 Now, as to the many things that may be read between the lines of what Hancock and Frank lin said here's just hint: Hancock rich merchant. It part of the purpose of the British troops at Lexington and Concord to cap- lure Hancock At that time Hancock spondent in the Admiralty court in suits of the crown to recover nearly half million dollars as penalties alleged to have been incurred for viola ton of the laws of navigation and trade. Han cock had inherited his fortune from his uncle, Thomas Hancock, who had become wealthy snug cling tea So it was no more than right that John Hancock should sign his name large and plain to the document which, if made good, would save him from financial ruin and give him free com merce with all the world
 Benjamin Franklin, publisher, printer, philos- opher and statesman, seventy-one years of age, the oldest member of congress, was more con- cerned with the political than with the commer- cial aspects of the situation. He made clever jest but no man there knew better that there is many a true word spoken in jest.
 So the truth is that side of the ocean the fundamental causes leading up to the Revo- lution were both political and economic-and pos sibly quite as much economic as political. To ar rive at the main features of the situation, the fol- lowing chronology is helpful:
 176O-Accesson of George III. Conquest of Can- ada by British.
 1761-Revival of navigation and trade laws of 1860 and 1663 Issues of "Writs of Assistance"
 Entertainment demands that colonies pay