Evening star., 1896-12-14
STATES IN DUEL
MIR. Allen Resents Mr.. Hoar's "Pas-
sionate Crusade of Dishonor."
SCAFHING REPLY BY TEE NEBRASKAN
The Stains on Massachusetts, Good
Name Pointed Out.
SOME ANCIENT HISTORY

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Mr.. Allen (Neb.) addressed the Senate to-
| day On a resolution introduced by himself
! last week declaring the sacredness of con-
! tracts, devoting himself to a refutation CT
the charge that the legislation in states
| which had elected populist legislatures,
such as Kansas and Nebraska, will be such
as to retard If not prohibit the enforce
ment of legal contracts and legal obliga-
| tions.
He declared so far as Nebraska is con-
cerned there is not the slightest ground
to fear that anything will be dome II at
will in any respect violate legal obllga-
tions or place barrier across the pathway
of their prompt and effectual enforcement, .
| and he continued: The populist party OF
Nebraska Is composed of men who under
| stand quite well the inviolapility of all con-
! tracts, as we'll the sacrAdness of public
| and private property and the rights of citi-
| zens. The party was not born 20 destroy.
but to build up and make more secure the
| rights of all, and to give to all that full
measure Of justice their position as mcm-
bers of society entities them to.
| PrObity of Nebraska Courts.
Those who live elsewhere and have, or
may have, obligations against the state,
or any Of its subdivisions, or citizens. will
not be deprived of entering our courts and
| enforcing them as fully and completely as
| they can in the courts of their own state
| They will find no prejudice against them
| If their cause Is meri.orious. Our judges
will compare very favorahly with those of
| the oldest states of the Union in point of
| ability, integrity and a knowledge of the
! duties of their Offices Taey will hold the
scales of justice impartially between iesi-
| dents and non-residents; .hey will enforce
| all legal obligations in their letter and
| spirit and defeat those in violation Of law,
| they are, in every conceivable rearect
| abreast Of the times. and fully armed and
| equipped, by character and education, to
| impartially discharge their duties Without
| fear favor.
Eastern holders Of stocks in our rail-
| way corporations sometimes express fear
| of hostile 1egisla ton, and desire to say
to them that such a feeling is sroundless
| While 1 do not doubt that he legislature
| will enact measures looking to the preven-
| ton of over capitalization. wild and Ieck-
less mapagement, and will take strong
! grounds against railways interfering in po-
| litical matters and favoring one political
| party by the free service of their trains to
| the ffgid exclusion of others from a like
| privilege, yet so far as equitable and Just
| passenger and freight rates are concerned
there will be nothing lone of which any
| fair minded man may justly complain
senntor Hoar's Epithcts.
/ He also declared that there would be no
disposition to leg1slate so as to injure the
best sugar factories of the state. as hal
! been charged would be done, and he re-
| piled vigorously to a quotation from
| banquet speech said to have been made by
| Senator Hoar before the Home Market
| Club In Boston in November, in which the
| Massachusetts Senator was represented as
| characterizing the efforts of the democrats
| and populiSts, especially of Kansas and
| Nebraska as a crazy attempt at reVolu-
ton and passionate crusade of dishonor-'
| "Nebra SKA" said Senator Allen in reply
| to this has never engaged in a revolution
| that was not pacific aud lofty in its char
| acter and directly within the true province
| Of Chris stian government
| Massachusetts possesses nothing In Ne
| braska that should entitle her foremost
| man to speak of our people as the senior
| Senator from that state has done. While
| we accord to Massachusetts, her rights and
| look upon her as an elder and therefore a
| more compact and better organized COM
| nunity than ours, we do not look to her
| for advice on political. social, scientific,
| religious any other question.
| Il do not speak of this Misrepresentation
| as strongly as l feel, but must be permit
| ted to say that 1T was an unwarranted,
| gratuitous, open and fragrant insult to an
| honest, intellig ant, poor but struggling
| Christian people. The percentage of Hit
| eracy in Nebraska Is smaller than in Mas
| sechusetts. Her churches and schools, ac
cording to her population. are fully as
numerous and as well equipped to impart
| Christian and secular education as are
| those of Massachusetts. Our charitable In
stitutions are among the finest of the
world; our people are industrious, econOm-
ioal, honest, intelligent, persevering AMI
| loyal.
| Page of History.
| at cannot be said of Nebraska that she
joined in a crazy and dishonorable crusade
IN nofo tna
| tive slave law. Her people have never been
| guilty of nobbing one of their own citizens
| for no greater offense than raising his voice
| against oppression and wrong. The still
| ness Of her atmosphere has not been broken
| by the appeals for assistance of cringing
| men and defenseless women and children,
| guilty OF no offense but fleeing to her soil
| for freedom. only to be captured and placed
| in chains by her citizens and returned to
| servitude for reward. Whatever may be
said of Nebraska, she has not been guilty
OF these crimes against the laws of God
and civilization. She has never dishonored
her foremost citizen, when living, for ex-
tolling the cause Of liberty, and placed
wreaths on his grave when dead because
he had been friend of liberty. She has
done none of those things. and no dishonor
| Of this kind attaches to her name or imper-
lis her glory
Mr.. Allen said that he understood per-
fectly that there are those who have been
born and live in Massachusetts, who have
conceived a most bitter hatred for the west
and for everything western, and who be-
lieve that neither good nor intelligence can
be found in that section Of the country"
But he declared that the patriotism of the
people OF Nebraska is as broad and limit
less as her plains; their Christianity and a
sense of duty are as pure and untainted as
her atmosphere. Never thus far in the his
tory OF the state has she been guilty of dis
honor and never, as long as Intelligence is
predominant and God reigns in the hearts
Of her people, will she be guilty of anything
that will place a stain upon her good name
or that viii cause her to be spoken Of by
honest, intelligent and fair-minded men In
disparaging manner.
Army Appropriation Bill.
The army appropriation bill for the fiscal
year beginning June 80 next has been