Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-07
COMPARED WITH
 GEN. ETHAN ALLEN
At tpe Washington Birthday Banquet in Little Rock, Geo. R. Brown Re- fers Most Complimentary to
 Late Gen. N. King White.

One of the principal functions in Little Rock recently in observance of Washington's birthday was the ham quet at the Hotel Marion by the Sons of the American Revolution, at which Fay HemDstead the poet-historian was the toastmaster
 There were quite a number Of very interesting toasts including the fol- lowing
 Washington The Father of His Country-A Pillar Steadfast in the Storm'-Geo. w Clark.
 Ancestry Frank W. Rawles, president of the society.
 "Our French Allies in the Reyolu- tionary War"-Rey John Van Lear. Ethan Allen, and the Green Noun tain Boys N77-Geo. R. Brown.
 Inasmuch as Mr. Brown made spec ial reference to the late Gen. H. King
 White of this. city, we publish in part bis reply to the toast as follows: Mr Postmaster
 Until I received your compliment tary suggestion for brief response
 from me regarding Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys was lamentablv ignorant of that brave soldier and his deeds of daring-as ignorant as a iaybrd-as ignorant as many of our legislators are as to the real needs of Arkansas. l have looked into the books, and there is much to admire about the general. He re- minds me of Gen. H. King White, a most commanding officer here during the Brook Baxter war, a sure enough soldier-and if King White didn't look the soldier I never saw one. There were four of the Allen broth- CTS. and Ethan was the fighter; born ! in 1737 he died in 17S9, and probably a natural death as the books do not give an account of his being killed. He first rose above the crowd when he took Eart in the territorial row between New York and New Hamp- shire, was named as an agent to set tie the trouble at Albany, but when the decision went against his crowd he wouldn't stand for it. rounded up his Green Mountain Boys and drove the New Workers out of the disputed territory. He was fined for this, but
 it didn't seem to upset him to any marked degree for he went heart and soul into the Revolution and we next hear of him rounding up a bunch of English soldiers and causing their surrender in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Con- gress
 The Congress at Philadelphia rec ognized and eomplimepted him for his valor. Later he went up into Canada about Montreal, where he was cap tured, sent to England, kicked and cuffed and abused in land and pri- son ships for number of years until he was exchanged in TITS. He had been badly treated. but Washington gave him the glad hand. Again he turned his attention to the state boun- dary troubles, and the British tried to win him over, but were not success full; he however let them think what they would and won their neutrality toward his Mountain Boys, He was twice married. and at his death left widow and seven children. He was what is known as a Free Thinker or Deist. He was always stirring up things, and his publication Reason the Only Oracle of Man. assailing the Bible and religion brought down upon him the criticism that might have been expected. He never denied the existence of a God, but denied re- vealed religion.
 Gen. Ethan Allen was certainly a most interesting mana man who did his own thinking, who lived his own