The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-15


sacredness of contracts, INDUCING in a
REPUTATION of the charge that the legis-
lature in states which had elected Pop
ulist legislatures. such as Nebraska
and Kansas. will be such as to retard,
if not prohibit. the enforcement OF le-
gal obligations and of legal contracts.
So far as Nebraska is concerned, he
said, there is not the slightest ground
to fear that anything will be done that
will in any respect violate legal OBJ
legations or place a barrier across the
pathway of their prompt and effectual
enforcement"
He continued: 1.-The Popnlist party
in Nebraska is composed OF men who
understand quite we'll the inviolability
of all contracts. as well as the sacred
ness of public and private property
and the rights of citizens. The party
was not born to destroy. but to build
up and make more secure, the rights
of the people and give 10 all full
measure of justice their position as
members of society entitled them to.
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 enter
ing our courts and enforcing them as
fully and as completely as they can
in the courts of their own state. They
will find no prejudice against them or
their cause If meritorious. Our Judges
will compare favorably with those of
the oldest states of the Union in point
of ability. integrity and knowledge
OF the duties of their offices. They will
hold the scales of Justice impartially
between residents and non-residents;
they will enforce all legal obligations
in their letter and spirit, and defeat
those in viola ton bf law; they are in
every conceivable respect, abreast of
the times, and fully armed and
equipped by character and education
in the impartial discharge of their
duties without fear or favor.
THE eastern holders of stocks in our
railway corporations sometimes ex-
press fear of hostile legislation, and l
desire 10 say to them that such a feel
ing is groundless While / do not
doubt that tie legislature will
enact measures looking to the pre-
vention of over capitalization,
wild and reckless management,
and will take strong grounds
against railways interfering in
political matters and favoring one
political party bF the free service of
their trains to the rigid exclusion of
others from Ike privilege. yet, so
far as equitable and just passenger
and freight rates are concerned, there
will be nothing done of which any
fair-minded min may justly COM
plain"
There would he no disposition to leg
islate so as TO injure the beet sugar
factories of the state. he declared, as
had been CHARGED would be done, and
he replied vigorously to a quotation
from a banquit speech said TO have /
been made bf Senator Hoar before /
the Home Maket club in Boston. in !
November. in which the Massachu- /
sets senator ras represented as char /
acterizing the efforts of the Demo-
Gratis and Poulists, especially of Ne /
brasAa and Kansas. as "a crazy at /
tempt at revolution and passionate 1
crusade Of diahonor.
Nebraska, ." said Senator Allen in /
reply to this has 1sexeg. engaged in :
revolution th!t was not pacific and /
lofty in its character. and directly f
within the povince of a Christian
government.
Massachusetts possesses nothing in
Nebraska tina should entitle her fore
most man to speak of our people as
the senior semtor from that Srafs has
done. While We accord to Massachu-
sets her rights, and look upon her as
an older. and, therefore, a more COM
pact and bettr organized community
than ours, we.do not look to her for
advice on p1itical. social. scientific,
Il do not spak of this mlsrepresen-
tation as stron;ly as l feel, but / must
be permitted D say that it was an
gratuitous, open and
fragrant insult o an honest, intelligent,
poor, but struggling, Christian people.
The percentage of illiteracy in Ne
braska is smaller than in Massachu-
sets. Her churches and schools, ac
cording to her population, are fully as
nd q n inn
part Christian and secular education
as are those Z Massachusetts,. Our
charitable institutions are among the
finest of the weld; our people are in
dustrious, ecoIDmcal. honest intel
ligent. perseveI ig and loyal.
1T cannot b truthfullv said of
Nebraska that he Joined in a crazy
and dishonorabe crusade to enforce
the provisions IF a brutal fugitive
slave law. Her. people have never
been guilty of lobbing one of their
citizens for no greater offense than
raising his vote against oppression
and wrong. Thestillness of her atmos-
phere has not ben broken by the ap-
peals for assistace of cringing men
and defenceIess Homen and children,
guilty of no offece but fleeing to her {
soil for freedom. only to be captured
and placed in Gains by her citizens
and returned to sivitude for a reward.
Whatever MAY ? said OF Nebraska.
she has not been iulty CT any of these
crimes against tie laws of God and
civilization. She las never dishonored
her foremost citizen, when living, for
extolling the caiie of liberty and ]
placed wreaths onhis grave when dead
because he lad ,een the friend of
liberty She has lone none of these.
no dishonor of tbs kind attaches TO
her name or impGls her glory
There gre thos who have been s
born and live in Massachusetts, who
have conceived a liter hatred for the
west and everything western, and who
believe that neithr good nor intelli- |
gence can be foun in that section of /
the country.
But the Datriotm of the people of I
Nebraska is as brad and limitless as !
her plains; their Cristianity and sense
Of duty are as pun and untainted as !
her atmosphere.
Never thus far 1.-THE history of the
state, has she beenyufty of dishonor, ;
and never, as longis intelligence is
and I'd reigns in the l
hearts of her peoplewill she be guilty \
of anything that III place a stain l
upon her good name,r that will cause l
her to be spoken of " honest, intelii-
gent, and tair-mindj men in a dis y
paraging manner" q
Mr.. Plat (ReD). Connecticut, re- /
ferred to the resolutil as ''clap-trap," {
and moved TO amendit by adding to {
it these words: '.Ad that in the n
opinion of the senateAo law should be a
passed by congress. q effect of which
would be to impair te obligation of L
and - .ked Mr.. Allen