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


sacredness of contracts. indulging 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 eifectual
: enforcement
He continued: 1.-The Populist party
in Nebraska is composed of men who
understand quite well 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 to 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 violation of 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 corpora tons sometimes eX-
press fear of hostile legislation, and 1
desire TO say to them that fuch feel
ing is groundless While / do not
doubt that the 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 by the free service of
their trains to the rigid exclusion of
others from like privilege, yet, so
far as equitable and just passenger
and freight rates are concerned, there
will be nothing done of which any
fair minded man may justly COM
plain"
There would be 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 banquet speech said to have
been made by Senator Hoar before
the Home Market club in Boston. in
November. in which the MaSsachu-
sets senator was represented as char
acterizing the efforts of the Demo-
Gratis and Populists, especially of Ne
braska and Kansas, as "a crazy at
tempt at revolution and passionate
crusade of dishonor."
Nebraska" said Senator Allen in
reply TO this, has nexer engaged III a
revolution that was not pacific and
lofty in its character. and directly
within the province of a Christian
government.
Massachusetts possesses nothing in
Nebraska that should entitle her fore
most man TO speak of our people as
the senior senator from that state has
done. While we accord to Massachu
sets her rights, and look upon her as
an older, and. therefore, a more COM
pact and better organized community
than ours, we do not look TO her for
advice on political, social. scientific,
religious or any other question.
90 not speak Oh iulS HIST DItStI-
tation as strongly as | feel, but / must
be permitted to say that ii was an
unwaTranted. gratuitous, open and
fragrant insult to 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
numerous and as well equipped TO i'm
Tn,-ict nd odl
as are those of Massachusetts. Our
charitab BILE institutions are among the
finest of the world; our people are in
dustrious. economical. honest intel
ligent. perseveIing and loyal.
1T cannot be truthfullv said of
Nebraska that she Joined in a crazy
and dishonorable crusade to enforce
the provisions of a brutal fugitive
slave law. Her people have never
been guilty of mobbing one of their /
citizens for no greater offenSe than |
raising his voice against oppression !
and wrong. The stiffness of her atmos-
phere has not been broken by the APP
peals for assistance of cringing men /
and defenceless women and children, |
guilty of no offence but fleeing to her /
soil for freedom, only to be captured |
and placed IN chains by her citizens /
and returned to servitude for a reward. /
Whatever may be said OF Nebraska, |
she has not been guilty CT any of these I
crimes against the laws of God and /
civilization. She has never dishonored (
her foremost citizen, when living, for 1
extolling the cause of liberty and /
placed wreaths on his grave when dead I
because he had been the friend of |
liberty She has done none of these,
no dishonor of this kind attaches TO /
her name or imperils her glory.
There ere those who have been
born and live in Massachusetts who
have conceived a bitter hatred for the
west and everything western, and who
believe that neither good nor intelIi-
gence can be found in that section of
the country.
But the patriotism of the peonle of
Nebraska is as broad and limtless as
her plains: their Christianity and sense
Of duty are as pure and untainted as
her atmosphere.
Never thus far in the history of the
state, has she been guilt of dishonor I
and never, as long as intelligence is
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, intelii-
gent. and tair-minded men in dis
paraging manner"
Mr.. Plat (ReD0. Connecticut. re-
ferred to the resolution as ''clap-trap,"
and moved TO amend it by adding to
il these words: And that. in the
opinion of the senate. no law should be
passed by congress. the effect of which
would be to impair the obligation of
contracts and - asked Mr.. Allen