Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-10-15
VOL. XIII. NO. 80.

Witt was right. Hanna has made
wage cut after wage cut against labor.
He has provoked strike after strike, and
by force and money, used without stint
or scruple, fought them to a standstill.
1t is no exaggeration to say that 10, 600
men have bled and LOCO died in the
killings and the woundings and the
starvings of Mark Hanna strikes.
HIS STREET CAR RECORD.
Today go to Cleveland and talk with
the men on the street railroads.&c.
Woodland Avenue and the Little Consol-
idated. Not labor union man is given
employment; not one can stay. The
first question put to an applicant for
work on any road of Hanna by Mulhern,
his man, is: do you belong to labor
union?" He gets no work if he does.
Moreover, he is at once Swallowed by one
of Hanna's detectives, of which he keeps
a horde as some men keep pack of
hounds to learn if he has told the truth.
No man who belongs to organized
labor in any form can work for Hanna,
or in any enterprise he fosters; unless
one excerpts those brotherh6ods to shed
blood, such as the Pinkertons. Then he
may do his black work for Hanna and
be roundly rewarded therefor. The
Pinkertons, the Mooney-Bolands. are
the only Labor" organizations to fatten
by the hands of Hanna.
Labor does not hold a meeting at
Cleveland or near any of Hanna's inter5
ests which his detectives do not attend.
They take the name of every Hanna
employee who comes. OFF goes his head
with the moment of their report.
When the vestibule street car act was
being agitated in Ohio, measure
meant to force such construction of
street cars as might serve to shield the
motormen from piercing cold, Hanna
opposed it. His men who signed the
petitions favoring the act were dis
missed.
When it passed in spite of Hanna,
instead of vestibuling his cars, he
stretched screen of canvas. 1t was no
protection moreover, it was violation
in the sense of an evasion of the law. .
Yet if one of his men complained he
in the biting winter gnaw their tongues
over their work and freeze in slow
silence. Or they might quit and starve.
Such has been the friendship of Mark
Hanna to labor.
Here is some of this red oppressor's
labor history in brief. 1t is he who
holds s11s, 600 of McKinley's notes, and
aims 70 mt tbic randfdata x.ybo tbuc liec
as helpless in the hollow of Hanna's hand
as ever lay one of his laborers, into the
White House as president.
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 union
ism off his boats, off his cars, out of his
coal holes. He has drowned it in the
lakes, bayoneted it about his works,
starved if 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 mani
But in vain does the fowler spread a
net in sight of the bird. The labor ele-
himself, perhaps.
HOW HE SKINS wORKMEN.
In Hanna's Globe shipyards the men
are paid 81. 10 day. A brave figure,
truly Pankhurst, the manager, called
the strikers together, made them a pro-
lection speech. told them that SIPS,
while ruinous price for Hanna to pay
for a days work-a man who spends a
million dollars 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" Hanna's life fulsomely, speak
of his stern love of privacy, and exult
over the fact that Hanna never ran for
Office.
These blind sycophants and anxious.
parasites in advance needn't marvel.
Hanna never ran for Office because
scarce one man beyond himself in North
ern 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 an
Office is to do as he is attempting to do
with Mckinley: Buy candidate, buy
the candidate an Office, and then own
the Office by owning the man.
Here is 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 ZOO 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 sea-
board.
In two weeks Hanna ran up the price of