Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-22
ThE TWO hANNAs.
As Campaign Manager and Employ
err of Help.

As Campaign Manager and Employ
err OF Help.
| Senator Marcus AntOnius Hanna. OF
Ohio, is an altogether different iDdi-
vidual from Marcus Antonius Hanna,
coal miner.
| As chairman Of the republican na-
| tional committee this Hanna conduct
| ed successfully a campaign which re-
suited in his creation as senator. La
that campaign he promised unlimfte9
prosperity. 1t was to come imme-
| diately upon his success in November.
1t was postponed conveniently until
| the Inauguration of the successful cam
didate in March. And we have been as
sured by Mr.. Hanna, who has attained
| the senatorship and has certainly Sc
cured prosperity for himself, that it is
| here with both hands and every foot.
| But the coal miner Hanna, meeting
demands for an increased wage from
coal operatives, announces that moth
| ing can be done toward the granting of
the request at this time because BUSH
ness conditions-that is, general pros
perity-does not authorize the grant
ing of the petition.
Therefore, the Hanna who was the
| prophet u anu
ciary is not the Hanna who is digging
coal from the bowels of the earth and
refuses an increase of wages to oper-
| atives.
Under the existing tariff blum
inous coal is protected by duty of 40
cents a ton. Senator Hanna, the
necromancer of Ohio, the great med
| icine man of the country. the rain
| maker who compels fructifying clouds
| in the bending heavens, has succeeded
| in increasing that protective duty on
| bituminous coal from 40 cents per
| ton to 67 cents ton. The bill in which
this increase of tariff tax has been
made has passed both houses and is
now under consideration by commit
tees of conference. They will speed
liz agree and the great tariff enact
ment, called by its friends a revenue
producer, will go into operation. What
will be its effect? We are told time
and again by republican tariff makers
| that the tariff is levied in the interest
of labor alone. It is designed to dig
nify, enrich and ennoble American la
Dor. If the labor cost was not factor
republicans tell US they would not
cIamor for a protective tariff. Then
the 81 cents ton additional is not for
revenue, but is for wage, designed to
save American labor-that is, labor
employed in America and admitted
freely from European countries-from
the competition of pauper labor of
Nova Scotia, where alone the bitumin-
| Gus coal entering into competition with
! American-mined bituminous coal is
found.
Why is it, then. that. the bill being
practically perfected, American miners
do not instantly receive the additional
81 cents per ton?
Because, according to Coal Miner
Hanna, business conditions are such
as not to authorize it. An appeal
ought to lie from Philip drunk to Philip
sober, from the coal-mining Hanna to
the necromancer Hanna, from the cap
italist who digs in the bowels of the
Garth to the senatorial tariff maker.
If a tariff is laid primarily for the ben
eft of labor why is not the 81 cents
ton placed Immediately at the disposal
of coal miners?
We do not want an answer from
Coal Miner Hanna; we do want an
answer from Tariff Maker Hanna
| Chicago Chronicle.