The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-11-20
WHO Is MARK HANNA!
He is the Vampire of Poverty and the
ScOurge of Gold.
Every Dollar of His Millions Has Been
Coined From the Life Blood
of Labor.

Ii all the suffering and heartache;
if all the crime born of need and all
the despair begotten of his insatiate
greed were used to form another
hell, the prince of darkness would
stand appalled,.
If all the blood and tears he has
caused to flow to fertilize his for
tune could be collected in one pool,
his navy might ride at anchor there,
while his half-starved seamen man
ned the yards and fired salutes in
honor of that blessed era of progress
and prosperity" which he is con-
triving for the sons of toll.
Who is Mark Hanna? He is the
man denounced by Master Workman
Sovereign as IAN industrial can
nibal-worse even than Carnegie" J"
Why was he thus denounced? Be-
cause he has entrapped hundreds
perhaps thousands-of confiding
workmen into signing contracts
which enabled him to withhold one
half their wages and add it to his
hoard. Because he has for years
owed thousands of dollars to en-
paupered ship-builders, which he
confesses was honestly earned, yet
declines to pay, pleading that under
the contract he is not liable until
the ships are sold;n yet these ships
are sailing the lakes in his service.
Because he has deliberately swim
died thousands of poor working peo-
pie out of the little homes which
their toll had paid for, and driven
them forth to perish. Because he
has ruthlessly trampled the life out
of a dozen labor unions, and to-day
both on land and sea-pays the
lowest wages of any American en-
ployer. Because he organized and
managed the infamous coal pool of
1893, which threw thousands of min
ers out of employment in the dead
of winter, while netting the conspir-
ators millions of dollars-wrung
from the American people during
the hardest period in their history.
Because across the door of his every
shop and above the mouth of his
every mine is written in letters of
neither fire, abandon hope, all ye
: who enter here!"
Every dollar of Mark Hanna's s mil
lions has been coined from the life
blood of labor. Does any doubt it?
Then let them turn to the hell-born
. horrors of Spring Valley and read
there an epitome Of Hanna's history
| There he and his Republican asso-
: ciates builded cheap cottages, whic h
were sold to their mine operatives
on the installment plan at exorbi-
tant prices. When these homes were
= more than paid for at an honest
r valuation, Hanna reduced wages to
+ the starvation point, making COM
plete payment impossible. The
: wretched dupes of the damnable
e plot appealed for simple justice, and
e were given the "horse laugh" by
Hanna. They went out on a strike
defaulted in their payments, and the
o State was appealed to by this mod
: ern Shylock, hungry for his pound
of flesh, to drive them from thell
d. homes. The grand old State of lii
!, nois was compelled to do the dirty
work of this brute-beast, because II
e was sin the bondn-to evict thepool
biiked home-buyers with the bayo'
net! In all the history of English
h landlordism in Ireland there is
= naught so hellish. A crime so dam
nable could have originated only
with the Helene Harpies-or Marx
Hanna. McKinley's master mex
secured all Southern Europe fol
cheap labor, and soon cOngregateC
at Spring Valley, the most grotes
e quely wretched aggregation OF igno
= rant helotes ever seen on American
h soil. The homes of evicted Arneri
can miners were resold to these for
eign mendicants-from whose com
r petition the Mckinley tariff was
: supposed to afford protection
Driven to despair, Hanna's eX-em
ployes attacked his imported poems
u troops were called out to protec
L them and again Spring Valleys gut
! ters were Redeemed with gore. Han
8 ma 'triumphed, as matter of course
= then cut down the pauper wages o
u his new employees! But even thu
+ ignorant Huns and lousy Lazzaron
s could not stand the pitiless oppres
o. sion of this Industrial Cannibal.
Another strike, more troops, bayo
nets and blood--and the twice paiC
for huts returned to the possession
: of Mark Hanna! Finding that whit,
/, men, howsover debased, would no
+ submit to his merciless eXactiOns
= he brought negroes from the SOutl
to supplant his wretched Huns
) and again Spring Valley became
1t a seething hell, and more work
e men, driven to desperation, left theil
= bones upon its sanguinary battle
fields.
That is but an episode, and by nC
: means the darkest one, in the his
+ tory of Mark Hanna. Such is the
~ man who is posing as the friend anC
', benetactor of the tin-bucket brigade
VI who "views with alarm" the pros
IS pect of having to pay his beloved
Is employees with deprecated dollars
. who would build Chinese wal
about this blessed land of Christ tC
/ ''protect American labor from Euro
If pean competition Such is the mar
n who is now tearfully appealing tC
! the people to preserve the honor o
:, our common countryW
IL What l have here written is bu
e as the shadow of gossamer upon
n summer sea to Gibraltar's massy
! rock, compared with that 1 am pre-
pared to prove. industrial Can
% nibalri The term is tame. 1t wer,
= like calling Medusa dreadful, Cali
n ban uncomely, or the devil displeas
y L.