The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-08-15
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with IT'S interests to a free man, however
young, than intrust its destfnies to- a cap
tive. however old. III
E5s Let us bend to the lesson OF Hanna.
There is but one Allah and MOI manned is
his prophet but one syndi ate, and Hanna
is its dictator. Who, therefore, is Hanna?
One glance at him betrays his sort
There is violence il his coarse, rudy face.
There is avarsce in his Weazel eye, a
money ferceness, just as one reads the
|slnst of blood in the lambert feroeity that
{ glOWs in tne eye OF a ferret. He is a gross
man, and runs to flesh like a. draught horse.
Standing 5 feet inches. Hanna weighs 240
pounds From the size of his collar and
the size of his hat one might conclude that
Hanna was perhaps the man ordinary.
This would be grievous error. He has
force: he has brains; he has presidency
that never falters; nerves that never
finch. Hanna has courage Of the sort that
goes with cruelty. He was born for tyran-
ny, for rapacity without ruth and with a
money appetite that is bass.ike in its vo-
racity
Hanna IS an egot;st, and is never to
think nor to suffer for others This shone
forth ray of brilliant selfishness in the
war-wrllng sixties. Hanna was % when
the war broke out, and without wife or
child to win him to his home. Did he go?
He never thought Of it, and others might
march southwark and waste their blood
and health and lay their final bones on
Southern battlefields. They were the fools
of the world to men Of the Hanna kind Of
wisdom. He knew better than battle; he
would stay behing and be rich. While
others did his fighting, Hanna, in safe
place, piled up dollars for himself. Yet
Hanna has courage; he did not fail the war
for lack OF heart. He preferred peace and
an easy plenty because he loves himself
much and the people little. 1t is a notable
fact that men capable of being million
aires, whether the millions are gotten or
still to get, go seldom or neve: to war.
The Vanderbilts. the Astors. the Goulds,
the Russell Sages and the Mark Hannas
have no military tastes, no battle live in
the annals of their houses. III.
III
Above it was said that this is written to
Workingmen. It. lis. There are those who
labor with their hands and who win their
bread with the sweat IN their eyes who do
not know Hanna. There are others of
this back-bent, toil-b;tten description who
know him sadly enough. In the starved
coal fields of Spring Valley they know
him In the Michigan mines, in every
half -paid forecastle Of the great lakes, in
the coal holes of Ohio and Pennsylvania,
wherever coal is dug and iron moulded
and oil is pumped; on the street car lines
of Cleveland; in all these places, and many
a dark corner besides, where labor is rob-
bed, they know Mark Hanna. And the
mention of his name is the signal for such
a cloud OF froWns, such storm Of curses,
as publish him what he is-the oppressor
without mercy Of every man on his multi
piled payrolls. Do you know where Gold
smith says:
For him no wretches born to work and
IT,. weep, t5
Explore the mine or tempt the dangerous
~ deep;
No surly porter stands in guilty state
To spurn imploring Famine from his gate.
Hanna is the exact opposite of Cold
smiths parson He is everything the
village preacher wasn't.
Hanna was born in 1887, just shaving
less than so years of age is Hanna. He
was born in New Lisbon Columbiana
county, in the state where he now lives.
His father was Leonard Hanna and
by profession a doctor.
1t would seem that DR.. Leonard Hanna
WI1S lLJG III lil0 Duo1uCos3 VI CetAoaLA anu
bandages from any love of his fellows
or riotous taste for public's health. He
distinctly longed for dollars. And
whether the sturday brood of citizens
about him were Of too rugged natuge
to permit pills to pay, or what the rea-
son, DR.. Leonard Hanna at an early day
lapsed into keeping country store. And
he kept it we'll, and as it fourished his
profits swelled.
Mark Hanna was not the only son.
There were at least three others. 1t is
said that they were remarkable as men
Of refinement and elevation; something
those who have met the present Hanna
will find hard of belief. ....a..
Mark Hanna was at a common school;
then briefly at the Western Reserve
College. This latter temple Of learning
only detained him a year. He might
have stayed longer, but he was i'm
patient to plunge into business. He was
thirsty to drink dollars for himself.
It was in 1852 the elder Hanna in
yaded Cleveland mere village then
camped on the banks Of the crooked
river which gave it first existence. The
Iannas opened a wholesale grocery
store. AS soon as the younger Hanna
was old enough to keep an account
AGAINST his fellow man and push reso-
lutely for it's collection he joined his
father in the grocery. This was in 1857.
Hanna was 20 and as famished to make
a dollar. at the age boys usually prefer
TO spend one as he has ever proved
since.
Hanna was % when Sumter fell
While others rushed about the torn
standard of their country to save it.,
Hanna stayed indomitably at home. And
he thrifty took government contracts of
the coal and iron kind, and SO in that
dark cannon sha ken hour Of the nations
peril Hanna filled his pockets while
others emptied their veins. Such lack of
patriotic purpose, such love of self and
pelf had their reward. Hanna is worth
over S2O00O,000.
In 1854 Hanna carried to the allan
the daughter Of Dan. P. Rhodes, a coal
prince and the founder Of the cd. p.
Rhodes Coal Company" The old man
is gone and the concern to day is the
Mark Hanna Coal Company. :.
From groceries to coal, and from coal
to every otner fashion of money trap
ping went Mark Hanna. There are two
sorts of business men. One is hunter,
stark and bold, vino seeks his profit at
noon and by direct approach. winning,
when lie does win, by dint of personal
skill and strength in his employment.
Such never grow rich. There are others,
shy, furtjve, not lacking courage, but
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