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Show An Editorial Courage, The Price of Freedom One hundred eighty four yeans ago next Monday a group of courageous and intelligent men signed a document which has become a model for freedom-loving people everywhere. every-where. The eternal and humanitarian principles it declared in simple words have not changed during the intervening years. It took courage to sign the Declaration of Independence. Every signer knew that if the struggle for separation from the Mother Country failed, he would be hunted down and hanged. It has taken a rare display of courage on many occasions since then to uphold and maintain the "proposition that" all men are created free and equal." The price of freedom is high. It must be bought and paid for time after time. It is a living, growing and functional thing. It thrives only when nurtured With unselfish and 'patriotic sacrifice. Perphas never before in its nearly two centuries of existence ex-istence has the American way of life been in greater peril. Crisis follows crisis with sickening rapidity. Questions follows question what is going to happen in Japan, or China, or Russia, or Cuba. The answers to all of these questions are important. But today, the most serious question for us is "What is going to happen in America?" Have we the courage to unite in a solid front against the Communistic aggressors? Do we realize, as did Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, and Patrick Henry, that "if we do not hang together, we shall hang separately?" Can we on July 4, 1960 forget politics as usual long enough to contemplate the principles of true Americanism upon which this nation was founded? Do we realize that these same principles will work just as effectively today, if only given a chance? After all is said and done, courage is still the price of freedom. |