Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-21


 This old enemy I was brought up to fight. have been fighting him every day since l have been able to fight. [Ap- plause.1 Because you have this old enemy for the first lime in eighteen years is why l am here now fighting for democracy.
 The senator spoke in highest terms of NJ ;Un 1erwoodI and B lid he would be able 10 do some good when he took his seat in Washington. He said that gentle his eyes at evil; he had never gone around counseling with thes negroes and the ene- mics of our free institutions.
 1t isn't neceasary for me to say who has done these things; you know who did it.: He said these men had waited for the word to come from Washington advising how to get the white people of Alabama again un- der their power. t7s5f son :. nG
 By d supreme effort of every man ia Ala bama we inaugurated a new constitution and new officers from the chief justice of the supreme court down to the constable, reduced expenses, cut off useless officers, and we have come on down to the present day, not without some differences, some strife, until last August we placed tue seal of condemnation on these men, say nay government can claim for itself the splendid things you see about you? Can these men who have played with the republicans since 1874 claim to nave cOnlrlDuteu Io 1lb3 Noh 5Oue E nalr 5 weight have they contributed. They have stood off grumbling and throwing the vitriol of their hatredson all we did as we " mt on with our splendid development.
 He said no state in this union or else- where had made such development as we have. The people of Alabama do notaseem to appreciate all this; they seem to under value this 52,000 square miles. a descrip- tion of which would infiame the mind of stoic. 9'- a'
 S~nator Morgan said he saw for the first time yesterday the Red mountain ore mines, and spoke in glowing terms of it's quality and inexhaustible quantity. He said no place on the face of the earth could com pete with this district in the production of iron; that almost anything could be built here and not built in vain.
 Of the cotton crop he said 1t could not be produced elsewhere on the earth success fully other than in the south. Any man who aided in the upbuilding and the devel- opment of his country could rightfully be called democrat.
 The republican party had it's. origin in one great movement directed against these people. It was organized to grasp author ity over these people by force of arms. The first power they seized upon was the civil rights bill by which they tried to place the negroes on an equality with the white people. They gave them tho ballot and then tried to force them in the theater, into our schools and churches. Then they seized the voting power. The senator had before him bill signed by Gov. William H. Smith, and spoke of it as au effort to continue the republicans in power in the slate. Finding they could not hold power by this, then congress began to act. The right to vote had never been denied the people. You sit by and let congress fill up seats with men, mere by-plays, and you become slaves.
 The first thing democracy did in gaining n fO repeal this federal election law.
 .IlThere is one clause h the constitution which the republicans never fail to take advantage of in gaining their ends, and they go ahead and seat Whomsoever they pieAse whenever they have the power.
 Tbe republicans seized upon the taxing power. The constitution confers the power of taxation on the congress of tho United States, and no court nor judge has thel power to set it aside,' Tho matter how thiS power being prostitutedY 5y sending mef who favor-.eeonomy ih the govern meet -eoG gress. The republicans want tax you all they possibly can. The
 Dmocrats have undone two laws, the civil rights bill and the federal election bill, and the republicans are now quarreiing with us about 1t.
 The Mckinley bill was not formed by committee of the house, but was made up by manufacturers, and each one stuck in as much as he could get.
 Samuel J. Tilden saw the tendency of that kind of legislation, and denounced 1t. He was a wealthy man, and lived right there in the midst of the people who were protected by these laws. After they had stolen the presidency from him and his voice had been sileDced, the HNapoleon of finance'' rose up and had congress to pass a bill that was odious to the American peo- pie. e
 Now, we have repealed the Mckinley bill, [applause] but 1t took long time to do 1t. There wasn't democrat in the senate and only few in the house who preferred the Mckinley bill to the one we passed.
 So much was won in that battle that we did not stop to see if every soldier who might be hid in the bushes w as captured. MT. Aldrich wants us to return to this Me- Kinley bill. That's why he wants to go to congress-. Voices, "He won't go, thought Appause.l
 The Mckinley bill, the senate bill, the Wilson bill and others were contrasted.
 What do you think of the income tax? Applause. l think it good one. think recognize in it good democratic doctrine. of the government according to his ability. That the way they do in the churches. liko the income tax. Ithink it is good ,solid democratic principles. The miner who goes into the mine and works, pays his debts and obeys the laws is high up in the laws of heaven. When he comes out and gets his pay he goes home and says: ''I have so much for tax on woolen goods, on shoes and other necessaries.o He pays on his income.
 The millionare can provide his family with every comfort and luxury; he pays tax on his income, it's true, but he collects it from the poor man.
 Every man is taxed to the extent of S4OOO on what he consumes. The man who has an income of more than S4000 has the pro- lection of the laws, of the military and the jury, and he should be taxed on what he Is hording. That's income taxes and Pm for it. It will be henceforth incorporated