The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-08-09

StaTNG. ~UCii HIS Etth TIE IfiFHtlStiip
of Mark Hanna to labor
Here is some OF this red oppressOr's
labor history i'm brief II is he who
holds Sis, 600 Of McKinley's notes, and
aims TO nut this candidate who thus
lies as helpless in the hollow of Hanna's
hand as ever lay one OF his laborers,
into the White House as President.
lie bought the Cleveland Herald,
turned out the Union printers and
"ratted" the Office. He built houses
and refused work to every carpenter,
Ibricklayer, plasterer and artisan of any
| kind who belonged to a labor union.
| He fought labor unionism off his
boats. off his cars, out of his coal holes.
| He has drowned il in the lakes, bayo-
netted it about his works, starved it
along his railroads, choked it to death
/ i'm 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 la
! boring man.
But in vain does the fowler spread
net in sight of the bird. The labor
element knows Hanna, better than he
knows himself, perhaps.
In Hanna's Globe shipyards the men
are paid Sf.15 a day A brave figure,
/ y
IS125 Parkhurst, the manager. called
the strikers together, made them a
protection speech, told them that $1.25,
while ruinous price for Hanna to
pay for days work man who
spends a million dollars n year to
merely live would be given to all who
would agree to vote for Mckinley. This
vas only the other day in Cleveland.
bouquet biographcrs, who Of late
have done Hanna's life fulsOmely,
speak OF his stern love Of privacy, and
iexult over the fact that Hanna never
ran for Office.
These blind sycophaDts and enxious
parasites ia advance needn't marvel
lauua never ran for office because
scarce one man beyond himself I'm
Northern Ohio would vote the ticket
were he named. Hanna is in such
torn and tattercd disrepute with the
people all about him that his only
chance to hold an office is to do as he
is attempting to do with Mckinley
nBuy candidate; buy the candidate
an office, and then own the Office by
downing the man.
Here is a specimen of Hanna's swift
talent for business. He put every man
he could get into his mines one day
lie worked them night and day He
stored 100000 tons of coal on barges
in the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
Then he cut wages to the bone and
forced a strike. He extended the strike
until he choked off coal production in
every field between the Mississippi
and the seaboard.
In two weeks Hanna ran up the
price of coal So per ton. He unloaded
[ hq lf e 4
Then he called off the strike.
His aim had been attained. The mi
ners had lost four weeks work pub
lie had lost S4,000,000, and Hanna, with
his pockets full of spoil and his heart
aglow with the black glory of it 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 Ensler, as
honest, as kind, as generous and as in
nocdnt a soul as lives, had saved $780,
900 by his theatres. 1t was his ambi-
ton to build a theatre for himself
Hanna knew Of Ellsler's hope, and for
his own ends fostered it, Ellslers
$250,000 was not enough. Hanna lent
him half as much to put with it. EIlsler
built the theatre--the Euclid Avenue
Opera House-at cost of 1878 .000, and
gave Hanna a mortgage for S125,00O.
1t came due, this mortgage, one day,
and Ellsler lulled to a notion that
time would be extended to him on his
Hannna-held debts, wasn't ready.
Did Hanna extend? Not day; not
a moment. He had planned the stu
alton for year. 1t was a business
triumph. He sold poor Ellsler out,
stick and stone, root and stalk, and
standing grass, and bought in the
atre worth $4,000 for $125,000.
Hanna owns the theatre now, while
John Ellsler, wan, old, without dollar
and broken of all his hope, was seen
rapping the other day for admission
to the Forrest Actors Home.
But one need not prolong Hanna.
His business history and his "love of
labor" are set forth in blood-red let
ters ineleyen States and Terrific
ries. The best thing about him is that
he's marked for defeat. His man, Nc
Kinley, is to go down; Hanna is to go
down; he may still eat his labOrers,
but he is not to deyour the country at
large.
But give him credit Hanna is one
remarkable for his brains, his courage,
| his aggressive ferocity and for his hard
and cruel heart. All that these and
millions of money can do Mckinley
viii have done for him. And if he
should succeed, then woe to the work
| ingman; labOr's night has come.
When the arch foe of uniOnism makes
the laws and enfOrces the laws, when
with one hand on the President and
the other on the patronage, Hanna
makes his home at the White House,
while a Republican Congress calls each
day to learn his will and departs to do
it. dark indeed will be labor's outlook
hanna will be within the law, mind
you, if he has to make the law to be
within. H$nna only the other day
paid Foraker huge sum, and made
him a Senator, too, x..S@s lobbying
through his fftyzyeSeO fehises 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: 90 be
within the letter of the law is not
morally enough. He who takes the
law OF the land for his sole guide is
Fneither a good neighbor nor an honest
man."
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