The Irish standard., 1896-10-24
rhri sketch Of the Man
ssa WINE D6fests the Progress of Any u.
1sSFs8zIsNs ~ an Who Labors.
l lsr;s ping, sordid, Vicious Man 81
J ess2 NN hose Only God is a Pile
SSas5 assl of Glittering Gold.
orlyingInen Cheated, Deceived, Shot Down,
,Iunderd and Yilified by This
.8 Ss AtrOciOus Monster.

a rank OF mouths merc.less TO suck blood
/ The one impulse of this creature is vora-
2|5city; the one motive blood With these
! fiend-invented tentacles it clasps and binds
its prey; while with the beak buried N its
bosom, it sucks the victim dry like an
orange This fearful thing of beak and
| tentacle is called the devil fish. Those
trusts of today, making the back bone OF
Mex. nley Hanna battle, are its twin breth-
! rem of the land.
! And Hanna tooi I've had my say of him
ere this If he be of that tender excellence
toward working folks which he declares and
sycophant,s paint, let his deeds defend him,
and his record speak. Hanna is worth $40,
600, 900: he controls s200,000,000 more.
| ROBBED in this wealth Of power. what good
has he done? To what door of want has ne
,appointed relief? What stricken one has
he up.ifted; what orphan Upheld? TO what
/ famine bitten face has he brought the hue
and rounded line of health?
Let the starved ones of Spring Valley
say. Owner Of a hundred coal mines, to
| what cold hearth has he furnished the fire
! light Of comfort? With a navy OF his own
has he saved lives? Ask of those skulls
and skeletons Of former sailor folk down
deeD on the bottoms, with the Great Lakes
swept overheard to drown like dogs. Why,
man! when these poor sailor people asked
| at the hands Of congress law to paint the
| load line on these ships, line which years
ago English law and Plimsoll gave to Eng
| fish seamen. it was Hanna WAC headed a
prompt lobby against it, and Hanna's
money struck the measure down. Today 1t
| lies dead in those charnel houses of con-
gress the committee rooms; dead by the
act of Hanna.
M'IINLEY'S DEBT FETTERS.
Hanna makes but one claim to CHARITY
performed; demands to be credlted Wlth
b11t one act of benevolent grace. Hanna
and his White House Syndicate paid Nc
| Kinley's debts.
But when one pres into this generous
! eust Of money giving one finds that the
S11S.OOO worth Of Mckinley notes are still
preserved. unreceipted, by the syndicate,
and undestroyed. They are not Mckln-
lev's vet, They are the chains and fet-
ters which bind him to the will OF this
syndicate. They are the reasons-these
s118 900 worth of Dromissory notes
why Mckinley substitutes gold for
"silyer" in his ritual Of finance, and bows
tamely TO this syndicate, mere prisoner
OF debt. i,
McKinley's partner, Walker, signed
these notes with the candidate. Will the
syndicate one day push against Walker
for their collection? II such comes he
may have contribution from Mckinley
for his half, as one who was partner Tor
profit as for loss. Why does not Walker
tell the story of the Neutrality-suspicious.
failure? It was but three short years
ago. Why does not Mckinley tell it?
| If all was perfectly white, why does not
Hanna tell it? or might not Hal Taylor
the Mckinley Walker assignee, lay bare
the facts? And why are the papers OF
the Mckinley Walker failure Kept
locked and keyed against all inquiry,
while the tongue OF every clerk Who had
aught to do with their custody is made
dumb to your questioning? -
"And this $118,000 to free Mckinley"
says Hanna, was the spontaneous Of
fering Of a grateful people,
There is gentleman named Rathbone,
who lives at Hamilton, Ohio. He was
contributor to the mckinley Fund" to
nav that candidates debts. He contrib
uted'' at the invitation Of the Hanna
syndicate. Rathbone was thus spontan-
eous because, he says, he, like others, was
promised political exile If he refused.
Let Hanna answer What of this
Rathbone story? And how many prom
Uses of Office within and without the syn
dictate were founded on this fund to pay
McKinley's debts, so spontaneously the
offering of a grateful people?" Or were
we to understand in this instance that
the people like Tallerand, were only
tsgrateflll' for the favors to Gomez?
But why waste words? One might as
we'll ask for the keys of a kings prison
as for facts touching the payment of the
Mckinley Walker debts from the Hanna
syndicate.
Out facit per alum facit per Sc. The
other day went aboard Hanna boat
at Cleveland. Forward in the dark fore
castle were huddled a group of his sail
5ors. Wiley boarded, and bedded still
more vile, no one would envy them.
Before this I've told how in the SOS
Hanna beat down the Seaman's Union
of the lakes. how he laid the axe OF his
greed at the roots and felled it; how he
destroyed it as a structure, plowed and
soWed it's site with salt. Here were
handful Of the Hanna sailors.
{, what do you get?'' said /.
TWENTY-FIVE dollars a month, and
drown and be damned in December
gales was the reply
81 Twenty-Five dolalrs a month, and idle
"a third Of the year! Not much show for
wife and chick, soul or body, on such
terms as those. Fifteen years ago these
men were getting $50 per month, and
Hanna had made millions paying that
wage. But rapacity dominated; he must
make faster millions still, and he struck
them down.
Hanna has IA vessels furrowing the
lakes today. For this piracy on his poor
forecastle folk, as proper colors. the
black flag should float from the fore
peak, and the skull and cross bones flut-
ter in the nizzen rigging Of every one
of them.
There is another fact of concern about
these boats, and one which discloses the
un-American methods Of the Hanna COM
5pany. Not one penny of American in
surance is carried by these boats. Every
one of them is under written in England.
The aggregatas insurance of the IA is
hard by $4,000, 900 and British scompan-
les shandi tsall. Hanna gets his insur-s
ance where he gets his money system
from England. ss 81
q slAA HANNA EMPLpYE TALKS.
About a month ago I received a letter
which throws ight upon the Hanna anx-
iety osfoster the wprking n--ans anxiety
itoswhich he is NOW bringing forward such
Witnesses as Peter Lynch, B Power and
oWderlyst TO test fys sa let ter IBIS its
own ITS been fully
Isl and the is the
ass hr ssizesH