The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-07-01

and DIackened the heavy strokes Of The ouln =.
remarked 10 his fellow delegates:
hut we must be unanimous there must be no
pulling different ways. We must all hang 10.
gcther.''
We must indeed all hang together" rep,ied
BENJAMIN Franklin OF Pennsylvania. .or most az
snredy We shall all hang separately"
we Americans of lU2l can read IA lot between
ssc ahes OF These TWO historic utterances. II we
90 little digging into beforc-th Revolution
american history-enough digging to get a clear
Idea Of what brought about the Declaration Of
Independence. And II Is every good Americans
patriotic duty to do that same dIggIng~~and do
u now. or course we're not all tarred with the
same brush but--to use more time honored Amer
lean simes--it's dollars to doughnuts that tho
average American doesn't know enough to last
him across the street about the causes leading up
10 the Revolution. And as for the Declaration It.
self he couldn't To save his life tell what half Of
u means This Is a bad business In itself ind IFS
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 are.
works aud casualties. And In the new kind OF
Fourth OF July celebration the Declaration OF In.
dependence win come To It's own ms the crowuing
touch OF public observance. The American Rev.
o'ution Is the greatest steppng.stonc In the march
Of the centuries toward freedom aud the Declare.
ton OF Independence In Its symbol.
Though the Declaration OF Independence Ia To
come back 10 Its own, the new Fourth will not
he the day when the American Eagle screams aud
the orator bawls because Uncle sam handed John
Hull a n . century aud half ago, There are
two rrasens for this.
tine l. the World war John bull and Uncle
Sam now stand shoulder TO shoulder IN defense OF
NIL that our common holds dear Of personal
freedom and political ideals.
The other Is the fact that the Revolution was
not n quarrel between two peoples the British
peopl. and III. American people. II wns, In Its
earlier stages at least strife between two din.
erent political aud economic systems II WAS no
unrelated event bur formed u part OF the history
Of the race on both continents. There q Brt.
ish revolution at the same time there
American Revolution. The British revolution was
60 regain liberty. The American Revolution was
10 preserve liberty On both sides Of the Allan.
tic the kings pr.rogatlses were the aim of
olutlonary attack.
Nom. to the many things that may he read
between the lines of what Hancock and Frank
lin said here's Just hint: Hancock was n rich
merchant. II part OF the purpose OF the
Brltssh troops al Lexington and Concord "a cap
Hancock. At that time Hancock Mas
spondeGi in the Admiralty court In suits of the
crown 10 recover nearls half million dollars as
penalties alleged To- have been Incurred for viola
tion Of she laws of navigation and trade. Han
eock had inherited hts fortune from his uncle
Thomas Hancock. who had become wealthy Snag
Eilng lea. 50 & Was na more thAn right that John
Hancock should ssgn his name large aud plain
to the document wheh, If made good. would saw
him from anauriai ruin All give him free com
msrce with AL the world
Benjamin frankiiu, publisher. printer. phics-
opher and statesman. seventy one years Of age.
the oldest member ut congress. con-
eerued With the political than with the CONNER
eial aspects If Ia. situation. III. made clever
jesi. but no there knew better that there Is
many n true word spoken In jest.
No the truth IN that side of the
the fundamental causes leading up TO the Revo-
luton both political and economc--end pos.
sibi, quite as much economic political To
rive al the main features of the situation the fol-
lowing chronology Is helpful:
iIoo-Accesson of George Ill Conquest Of Can.
ada by British
1I6i--iteyiyai OF navigation and trade laws OF
so and lo63. ISSUES of -writs of Assistance
ilca-Par'T nent demand, that colonies nay