...explanation of what he had done with the money. When called upon to give an accounting for the " yellow-dog fund," Franklin simply wrote back, " Thou shalt not...of our boomers of boom towns might do well to use: America has now outgrown the state of infancy. Her strength and commerce make large advances to manhood;...

...explanation of what he had done with the money. When called upon to give an accounting for the " yellow-dog fund," Franklin simply wrote back, *' Thou shalt not...of our boomers of boom towns might do well to use: America has now outgrown the state of infancy. Her strength and commerce make large advances to manhood;...

...as to the proper settlement of rights in the Newfoundland fisheries and in this connection he wrote: "There are but two natural sources of wealth — the...and the Ocean — and to lose the right to either is, In our situation, to put up the other for sale." He claimed that the fisheries were needed, "first,...