The herald., 1896-08-16
Ill.

tie records live in the annals OF their
houses
Ill
Above 1t was said that this Is written
| to workingmen. 1t is. 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-bitten
description who know him sadly enough.
In the starved coal fields of Spring Val
| ley they know him. In the Michigan
mines, in every haif-paid forecastle Of
| the great lakes, in the coal holes of Ohio
| and Pennsylvania, wherever coal Is dug
and iron nodded and oil is pumped; on
the street car lines of Cleveland; in all
! these places, and many dark corner
besides, where labor is robbed, they
| know Mark Hanna. And the mention
! of his name is the signal for such cloud
| of curses, as publish him what he is
| the oppresSor without mercy of every
man on his multiplied payrols Do you
| know where Goldsmith says:
| For him no wretches born to work and
weep
Explore the mine or tempt the danger
GUS deep;
| No surly porter stands in guilty state
To spurn imploring Famine from his
gate"
| Hanna is the exact opposite of Gold
smiths parson. He is everything the
| village preacher wasn't.
! Hanna was born in 1887; Just a shaw
! ing less than GO years ofs age is Hanna.
He was born in New Lisbon ,sColumbi-
ana county, in the state where he now
| lives. His father was q Leonard Hanna,
J and by professional doctor.
| Itwould seem that DR.. Leonard Hanna
| was not in the business of the balsam
and bandages for any love Of his fellows
or riotous taste for the public's health.
He distinctly longed for dollars. And
! whether the sturdy brood of citizens
| about him were of too rugged q condition
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 well, and as it fiourished
| his profits swelled.
Mark Hanna was not the only son.
| There We're at least three others. 1t is
] said that they were remarkable as men
| of refinement and elevation; something
| those who have metthe present Hanna
will find hard of belief.
| Mark Hanna was at common school;
| then briefly at the Western Reserve col
lege. This. latter temple of learning
| only detained him year. He might
| have stayed longer, but he was impa-
| tient to plunge into business. He was
thirsty to drink dollars for himself.
| 1t was in 1852 the elder Hanna invaded
| Cleveland, a mere village then camped
| gave 1t first existence. The Hannas
opened wholesale grocery store. AS
soon as the younger Hanna was old
enough to keep an account against hS;
| fellow man and to push resolutely for it's
| collection he joined his father in the
grocery. This was in 1857. Hanna was
90 and as famished to make dollar at
| the age boys usually prefer to spend one
as he has ever proved since.
| Hanna was 2S when Fort Sumpter fell.
| While others rushed about the torn
! standard of their country to save 1t,
| Hanna stayed indomitably at home.
And he thriftily took goveriHnent con-
| tracts of the coal and iron kind, and so
! in that dark cannon-s shaken hour of
! the nations peril Hanna filled his pock-
| cts while others emptied their veins.
Such lack of patriotic purpose. such
| love of self and pelf had their reward.
| Hanna is worth over $20,000,0 900.
| In 1864 Hanna carried to the altar the
daughter of Dan p. Rhodes, himself q
coal prince and the founder of the ID.
p. Rhodes Coal company" The old man
is gone, and the concern today IS the
Mark Hanna Coal company.
| From groceries to coal and from coal
| to every other fashion of money trapping
/ went Mark Hanna. There are two sorts
| of business men. One is q hunter, stark
and bold, who seeks his profit at noon
| and by direct approach, winning, when
Ilt uotS w liz NY ulIlt VI DtTSOIldi skill dtl
| strength in his employment. Such never
grow rich. There are Others, shy. fur
| tive. not lacking courage, but stror 2
| most in a foxy cunning, who are tthe
| trappers of trade. They set money
| traps, and then go about skinning their
| game.
Such as the last is Hanna He wins
| his wealth by indirection. He has the
sordid instinct that points the hidden
| dollar In some covert of trade, as setter
points bird. Hanna can take a dollar,
| make 1t into money trap, and catch a
| dime with it, He can set and attend to
! millions of these dollar traps at once
And the decoXed dimes caught by thesa
! dollar traps to die for Hanna are as the
| sands of the sea every year. That's how
| in thirty years, Hanna heaps up almost
as many millions.
Hanna not only succeeded to the Leon
| ard-Hanna grocery and the d. p Rhodes
Coal company, but he organized the
Buckeye Oil company, the Union Ma
tional bank and the Woodland avenue
| and the West Side street car lines os
Cleveland, o. Hanna owns iron copper
and coal mines in Michigan, coal min es
| in Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania He
| has fleets of vessels on the great lakes
| carrying coal up the lakes and iron ora
| down. He has shipyards and builds hi
own boats. He has interests of all
| Kinds scattered from Duluth to New
York; from the Pictured Rocks to tn
Thousand Islands, with business offices
and headquarters in every city on either
shore of all the lakes.
Hanna is the dominant spirit Of every
enterprise he is involved in. He controls
or he gets out Worth twenty millions
personally, he decides the policy of ten
times as much, and can march two hun
dred millions of capital upon the bet tie
iieid OF business to be as absolutely at
ms peck and call as an army to the ba-
ton of its commander-in-ch This
makes the power of Hanna, even with
out courage that never pales and a
heart as hard and cold as hail, and as re-
| morseless.
w.
Hanna in his enterprises employs
thousands Of men. He has fought
strikes and lock-outs with every one OF
them. There is not a n1arpaf work fov