The age-herald., 1899-07-26
which cannot be foreseen by the most san- Ina
Armor Plate Plant

Armor Plate Plant
 Senator Morgan referred briefly to the
 establishment of government armor plate
 factory in this district and. declared that if
 steel could be manufactured here that will
 stand the cruceal test of the army and navy
 experts, it would not be necessary to peti-
 tion congress to establish a plant, but that
 the government would grasp the opportuni-
 ty to make it's own plate, and rid itself of
 the unholly combine of Carnegie and Flu
 ropean manufacturers who are requiring
 the payment of $400 ton at the present
 time.
 He also referred briefly to the timber
 monopoly and drew a strons picture of the
 possibilities in store from thls industry alone.
 The export of cotton formed a most in-
 teresting subject for the senator, whose
 knowledge of the staple and of the inter-
 national conditions concerning it carried his audience carefully through the different phases of the situation
 The restoration of the single gold stand ard had been made in India to protect the Manchester manufacturers. The natural advantages of the United States as cot ton producing country were fully discussed and the reasons for low prices, based upon freight rates, middlemens profits and other
 disadvantages, which he illustrated by
 starting a bale of cotton from Birmingham
 and following it step by step until it reached the Japanese mills. The Hawaiian Islands The senator referred to the annexation
 of the Ha waian Islands and their influ- ence in developing the export trade to Japan, which was being done by direct lines out of San Diego, Gal, which were only recently established.
 He referred to a telegram he received several days ago from H. P. Wood, secre- tary of the San Diego Chamber of Com-
 merce, in which he stated that more than l 72,OOO bales of last years crop had been shipped, and 13,000 bales awaited shipment from that point to Japan.
 l Ii we will dnelp ourselves by expending a lttle he said, we will be able to sell our cotton crop without sending a bale of 1t | to Liverpool, and then we can set the 1 price in Alabama the same as we set the l price of iron.
 'Ibe Nicaragua Canal | The venerable senator reserved his pet | subject for the last-the Nicaragua canal | and most clearly did he point out the ad- l yantages which it would bring to the United States, and especially the south. Even with waterway to Mobf2 he perti- nently asked the question what would we | do with our iron and coal if we had no | market. The solution to this question was canal across Nicaragua which would open | up the markets of the Orient, of South America and other countries, placing them | in our control. He referred to the magnitl- l cent trip of the Oregon around the horn as | an illustration of the need of canal and | reviewed the history of canal legislation | i ncongress which he thought had now been made possible with the president and his l cabinet in favor of it.
 | He scored the transcontinental railroads, l claiming that they were combined to pre- | vent the passage of a bill for a waterway, l and also paid his respects to Mir. Cleveland | for putting his foot down upon it. He declared that there could be no ques- | ton of such great import to the people of Alabama as the Nicaragua canal, and sig- | nificantly remarked that before the expira- l ton of his term of office he hoped to secure the passage of such a bill. in which he said | that any man who wanted his office could | have it.
 | The senator brought his speech to close | with a clear and lucid explanation Of | plan to strengthen the political power of l the south by conferring the right of state | hood upon Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico, | whose synpathes and interests were iden- | tical with the south. He paid a high trib- | ute to the people of Hawaii, who, he said 1 had as good a government, and better in | some respects, than Alabama. | When these conditions could be brought | about and the political power of the south restored then the people would become what they deserve to be, the triumphant l republicans of this great country | Immediately after the speaking the mem- | hers of the board of trade and their invited guests were invited into the rooms below, l where an elegant lunch was served and an i informal reception was held.