The herald., 1896-08-16


helpless in the hollow of Hanna's hand
as ever'lay one of his laborers, into the
White House as president.
He bought the Cleveland Herald. turn
ed out the union printers and rated"
the office. He built houses and refused
work to every carpenter, bricklayer,
plasterer and artisan of any kind who
belonged to a labor union. He fought
labor unionism off his boats, Oft his cars,
out of his coal holes. He has drowned it
in the lakes, bayonetted it about his
works, starved it along his railroads.
choked it to death, in his mines. And
now he would talk" with Witt and
other labor leaders to show them the
lambs wool softness of his sympathetic
interest for the laboring man.
Butti vain does the fowler spread
net IN sight of the bird. The labor ele-
ment know Hanna better than he knows
himself. perhaps.
In Hanna's Globe shipyards the men
are paid s1.15 day. A brave figure,
truly! The other day they struck for
S1.25. Pankhurst, the manager, called
the strikers $together, made them pro-
lection speech, told them that s125
while ruinous price for Hanna to pay
fora days work-a man who spends
million dollars a year to merely live
would be given to all who would agree
; to vote for Mckinley This was only
the other day in Cleveland.
Bouquet biographers, who of late have
done" Hannas life fulsomely, speak of
his stern love of privacy. and exult over
the fact that Hanna never ran for office.
These blind sycophants and anxiuos
parasites In advance needn't marvel.
Hanna never ran for office because scarce
one man beyond himself in Northern
Ohio would vote the ticket were he
named. Hanna is in such torn and tat
tered disrepute with the people all about
him that his only chance to hold Office
Is to do as he is attempting to do with
Mckinley: Buy a.candidate, buy the
candidate an office, and then own the
office by owning the. man.
Z Here" is a specimen of Hanna's swift
talent for business. He put every man
he could get into his mines one day. He
worked them night and day. He stored
1000, 900 tons of coal on barges in the
Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Then he
cut wages to the bone and forced q
strike He extended the strike until he
choked off coal production in every field
between the Mississippi and the sea-
board.
In two weeks Hanna ran UP the price
focal So per ton He unioaded his bar
ges at profit of $4 900, 900. Then he called
off the strike.
His aim had been attained. The min
ers had lost four weeks work; public
had lost $4,000 900, and Hanna, with his
pockets full ofspoil and his heart aglow
with the black glory of 1t all, was ready
for another swoop at the first game that
flew his way
Here is another business venture, one
which the actors and Thespians know
all about. Old John Ellsler, as honest,
as kind, as generous and as innocent a
soul as lives, had saved $25O,0OO by his
theaters. 1t was his ambition to build
+1,. far !, ,ir,1S Sn1f Hanna know
Ellsler's hope and, for his own ends,
fostered it. Ellsler's $250,000 was not
enough. Hanna lent him half as much
to put with it. Ellsler built the theater-
the Euclid-avenue Opera house-at
cos$ of 1915, 900, and gave Hanna mort
gage for $125,000.
1t came due, this mortgage, one day,
and Ellsler, lulled to a notion that time
would be extended to him on his Hanna
held debts, wasn't ready.
Did Hanna extend? Not day; not
moment. He had planned the situation
for year. 1t was a business triumph.
He sold poor. Ellsler out, stick and stone,
root and stark and standing grass, and
bought in u theater worth S3l5,ooO for
$125, 600.
Hanna owns the theater now, while
John Ellsler wan, old, without dollar,
and broken of all his hope, was seen rap
| ping the other day for admission to the
| Forrest Actors home.
! But one need not prolong Hanna. His
| business history and his ''love of labor
are set forth in blood-red letters in elev-
| en- states and territories. The best thing
about him is that he is marked for de-
| feat. His man Mckinley is to go down;
! Hanna is to go down; he may still eat
| his laborers, but he is not to devour the
| country at large.
But give him credit. Hanna is one re-
Ia 1A tNas 1t III
| aggressive ferocity, and for his hard
and cruel heart. All that these and mil
lions of money can do Mckinley will
have done for him. And If he should
succeed, then Woe to the workingman;
his night has come. When the arch foe
of unionism makes the laws and enforces
| the laws, when with one hand on the
president and the other on the patron
| age, Hanna makes his home at the White
House, while Republican congress
calls each day to learn his will and de-
parts to do it, dark indeed will be labor's
| outlook. Hanna will be within the law,
mind you, if he has to make the law to
be within. Hanna only the other day
| paid Foraker huge sum. and made him
| senator too, for lobbying through his
| tifty-year franchises and making a law
| to fit his case. Hanna is ever on the right
side of the statutes. And yet he is of
that tribe of law-abiders of whom Judge
| Swan spoke from the bench when he
said: ITO be within the letter of the
law is not morality enough. He who
| takes the law of the land for his sole
guide is neither a good neighbor nor an
| honest man. n."-Alfred Henry Lewis in
| New York Journal.