Birmingham age-herald., 1894-11-02

China would be an ideal country for snei
 protectionist. For more than 100u years itt
 has had a wall around it, an1 no one was
 allowed to go in or out without permis-
 sion. They have produced the only people
 you will not allow to come in and compete with your labor. And this is the way your
 commerce will be if high protection is kept
 up. When we undertook to reform the
 tariff we found trusts and combinations to fight, and behind the trusts and combina-
 tons was the solid Tepublican party and
 half the populite patty. The republicans
 talk about the sugar trust. The sugar
 trust is composed of sugar refiners and IS
 incorporated under the laws of New Jersey,
 and sprang into existence the year the Me-
 kinley bill was enacted. The republicans
 let raw sugar come in free and made
 treaty with the Hawaiian islands and raw
 sugar came in there free. The
 trust sold the refined article at the highest
 market price, thereby increasing by prob ably half a cent every pound of sugar used. When we went to Washington last year we
 found the sugar trust. We passed bill
 repeating tbe bounty and sent it to the
 senate. That body only had forty-four democrats and it cannot move faster than the slowest man in 1t. The senate didn't
 pass that bill, but did pass another, which
 half the privileges given the trust by tue republicans, and when we meet again we will take away the other half.
 All the tax collected under republican laws comes from the consumption and goes into the treasury. The tax is for the sup port of the government. Now, what do you want with government? l know what the populists want with it. They want it to support them.
 The democrats enacted an income tax. Every man is allowed S4000 free; all above that is a surplus and will be taxed. By that we hope to raise $25 1000, GOO or ESQ ,000 900 year. By this law you place taxation where it can best be stood. Nn Id elN Iorp The democrats believe in home rule. The people of Birmingham know better what they want than do the people of Maine. Then we decreased the governments ex-
 penses $25, 600, GOO or S30, ,oo0, ,0o0 year. The populists say, "Oh, that ain't much!" Now, that's what we've done. What the republicans will do you can judge by what they have done in the past. They want to do the counting and certifying. They counted us out of the presidency in 1878; they counted Lewis Turpin out of congress few years ago. believe you have conn bination or coalition here. You know what they want as well as they. do. ! be. lieve they have indorsed a republican here. l believe they are running candidates oi their own in some districts. 1 suppose the
 candidates are as good as the platforms-if they ain't better, then the good Lord help them. The populists
 want to buy tue railroads, telegraphs and telephones. What they want with
 them don't know. I suppose they have seen them and like, them and just want them. The populists say they want free silver and an income tax, While they have been talking about it we have passed 1t. They took that from us and, without our consent. l suppose you know, what | that is.
 Then they want the referendum. sub pose you know what that means. A greht many men in Alabama are suffering for it! The populist party was born in Kansas. Kansas is a great state, but the people are prejudiced. They voted the republican
 ticket until they found the repu blican poli- cies were not doing them any good. They wouldn't join the democratic, but or rganized the populist party. They said the democ- racy was dominated by the south. They put in plank to suit everybody. If a man came to them with plank they would put it in. They have some men in congress and they all have vagaries. They want to buy the railroads and pay off all the mort gages. Senator Peffer dreams. He wants the government to give money to every man who either owns 16O acres of land and home or who wants to own home. Money IS good just so long as the gov ernment has the power to levy tax to re- deem it. Take that power away and your money is no good. There is more money in this country today than ever before, but it is not here; 1t is in the north and east.
 Here where we now stand only few years ago was cotton patch. Birmingham has grown like magic. It was almost all blythe energy and ingenuity of southern people. 1t was done under democratic rule.
 For twenty years the republicans have been trying to break the solid south, but had about abandoned 1t. Now, by the aid of populists and Jeffersonians, they are try ing again to do 1t. The interests of the south are with the democracy. The interests of the negro are identical with the interests of the white people. The whole nation is watching
 has gone out that the birmnganm
 "never."] If the people here tonight will resolve to elect the democratic nominee you can do it. The republican nominee may be good man, but he advocates the favor do it some other way. Public office is public trust. Everybody is interested in the next house. This district may be necessary to give the democrats control of it. Democracy was born with your gov. ernment and has always favored the inter. ests of the people.
 LEWIS W. TuRPIN.
 Mir. Turpin, the present representative in congress from this district, was intro-
 duced by MT. Campbell. He had been
 billed for speech here last night. He
 said that Judge Crisp, when he goes to
 there is no danger of the Birmingham dis
 trict being represented in the next con-.
 gress by republican. [Great applause.]
 He said he indorsed every word uttered
 by Judge Crisp, and that this waE no time
 for him to make speech. He said he had
 been in every county in the district, and
 there was no danger of the election sof the
 republican candidate.
 MIR. o. W. UNDERWOOD.
 MT. Underwood, in response to calls
 from the audience, came forward and was
 introduced by MT. Campbell, but owing to
 the lateness of the hour and the fact that
 the people had just heard a very able argue
 ment, he did not make a lengthy speech. t
 He said that on returning from Blount