Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-28
The Income Tax Fully Dis cussed and Warmly
 Advocated.
Coal and Iron Ore-The Silver Question and His View of It--Cotton'S Low Price
 and What Caused It.

On Saturday night, October 20, Hon. John T. Morgan, senior United States senator from Alabama, delivered an ad- dress before an immense audience in Frs well hall, this city. The well-known ability of the distinguished speaker drew an immense throng, who anticipated a rare treat, and they were not disappointed.
 Senator Morgan said:
 FELLOW CITIZENS: I have been intro- duced to you so often during the last few months that think we are probably &C., quainted pretty well.
 At all events we are friends, and we are engaged in great common cause which de- mands of us that, whether we happen to be personally friendly with man, or whether we happen to like him specially or not, we shall all unite in doing what is essential to pie of the great commonwealth of Ala bama, their best interests, their future prosperity.
 Nothing could induce me to undertake the campaign that our friends have i'm posed upon me the duty of making in Ala bama at this time except thorough comprehension and appreciation of my re- sponsibility to the people with whom have lived all my life, to whom my highest duty is owing, for whom my strongest affections are contin- ually excited and for whose well fare and interest would be a very uu- grateful man if every emotion of my heart did not we'll up then with gratitude to you. In coming before you tonight am entirely divested of any personal relation to the pending campaign in this state. It was not so in the August campaign, for the reason that, as a citizen of Alabama, had, in common with you, on that occasion the greatest possible responsibility laid upon me to try to do all that men could do fairly, justly and honestly to save this state from on Up h Q m which would have torn into tatters and would have cast to the winds the real and moral power of this state, and along with it all of it's hopeful prospects for years to come. Now we are called to consider our relations to the federal government; we are to determine for ourselves as a sovereign, governing and self-controlling people in all respects what shall be our relation in the near future and in the far off future to the government of the United States.
 The two campaigns did involve, in some respects, the same questions, but the cam paign of August, l am afraid, has left some remains of state of unrest, of irri- tation, of ill feeling, amongst the people of Alabama which, am afraid, is likely to enter to some extent into these great ques. tiOns, which concern our relations to the government of the United States. No man, 1 think, could feel more deeply than feel the desire, the earnest, burning desire, that every man in Alabama who has be- longed to the white man $ party, and every man in this state who has been democrat, who has avowed his adhesions to the great doctrines of that glorious creed, should be reconclled to the result in August. That they should arrive at that condition in their own minds where they would appre- good will between the people of this state. Nothing has eyer pained me so much as to find men who know in all the relations of life are as honest as I conceive my self to be in convictions and in following out what conceive to be the line of duty-to find men of that character who, because of the disappointments of life, the endorsements of hard times, and because of differences of opinion exist ing amongst us as to the best means of re- trieving and maintaining our fortunes, have permitted themselves to disagree with their brethren to such an extent as to pro- ouce cism and divisions in our midst.
 l will say, as l said when was here be- fore, that the arrival of this period in our fortunes and of this distress tirely unexpected or unanticipated by me. for more than twenty years ago, when we first inaugurated this great move ment which has resulted in the redemption of the state of Alabama from bad govern ment at the hands of the republican party and their successors, then saw that the existence in our midst of the negro voting population, without respect to their right to vote and without respect to the ability or ignorance with which they might exercise those great func- tions-that the presence in our midst of that vast body of voters, solid by race prejudices and race feelings, and manipu- lated by artful politicians of Alabama and others outside of the state, would present political element, factor in the elections in this state which would operate as too powerful inducsment to men having aspi- rat'ons that the country was not prepared perhaps fully to indorse, to step out of the Hue of the white family-the democratic party-of the line of propriety, of reason, of justice; the line of experience and the line of their former professions, and un- dertake to lay their hands upon that power