The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-11-06

ter Marks designs and pleasure. Mark
thus became the leader of the trusts
that were organized by him to prey
upon the people at large all over our
land. and to make war upon all organ
lied labor in every state in the Ameri-
can union. The success OF the scoun-
drel in carrying out successfully his
bold schemes, his devilish machina-
lions, has been very great, most won
derful.
What was written with so much OF
perspicacity, boldness and vigor by Mr..
Lewis in 1896 is just as true now as
when first printed. To understand
Mark Hanna o must head Lewis.
To know how resourceful and old thi-
villain is you must follow him in his
methodical plans and see how with
consumma.e mastery he worked them
put. The paper of Mr.. Levi would fill
five columns or so of the Messenger.
1t is too voluminous and valuabl to
be dealt with much in a brief editorial.
Mr.. Lewis says that this war of trusts
and corporations is older than history.
He writes:
"It is an old war, a war to rot every
age. 1t was fought before history be-
gan; it will be refought and fought
again down to the last syllable of time
when the earth goes out in
like a spark. 1t is the old foray of the
slave taker who has and who will hunt
down his prey, whatever the hour or
place, whenever the law and the chance
unite to purvey him a safe permit.
There is nothing new in it; not even its
Is~~ I1s1 >n1
cajoled as of old; their votes are being
mastered by the threat Of loss or pro-
mise of reward. Spies honeycomb the
work people; threats are made to frame
and fence them in. And should they
dare to vote against the dictates of
their masters and their masters money,
every arrangement has been made to
cut them down.
This is a day when money strives to
set the fashion, and by that fashion
rule. 1t is being taught that it is bet
ter to be respectable than to be right.
The best man is the best dressed man.;
SO say the teachers Of today"
His picture of the all %devouTing trust,
that cuts, blisters, saddens, makes Ics-
perate the children of men, must be
given for it is graphic and life-like. He
says of this most Shiny, Internal thing:
lO ne lTuSI TIE Sed IuTlllSHcS llS
only prototype. Down in the cavernS
of the unsearched ocean there crawls q
cold creature; a thing of slime. It's
heart does not thrOb or beat; there is
no pulse to it's chilled loo From the
shapeless bulk of this thing start out
long, twisting tentacles, strong as a
strap iron, ach on it's under side a
rank of mouths mercileSS suck blood.
The one impulse of, this creature is
voracity; the one motive blood. With
these fend-invented tentacleS it clasps
and binds it's prey; while with beak
buried in it's bosom, it sucks the victim
dry like an This fearful sea
thing of beak and tentacle is called the
devil fish. Those trusts of today, max
ing the backbone of the McKinley-Han-
ma battle, are it's twin brethren of the
land"
And the farmers of North Carolina
who may read that will feel and know
that it fits the rascally tobacco trust
just as we'll as it does any other of the
cruel, remorseless vampires. That
Hanna is a most reckless liar and SIAN
derer this campaign has made plain to
all. That he is made of coarse, harsh
stuff all know: That he is willing to
grind the faces of the poor and to rob
millions that he and other rich men
may become the richer is open to all,
for his life record reveals it all. Never
has the arch-boss been painted as by
Mr.. Lewis. He pictured him more than
once in 1896. In his second p%ortraiture,
in the elaborate sketch we lave been
copying from, he gave another touch
to the thinning of the monumental dem
agogue and oppressor. 1t is too long,
but we give the first portion because
it gives a bit of the personal history of
the monster boss. Mr.. Lewis writes:
And Hanna, too! Nv had my say
of him ere this. If he be of that tender
excellence toward working folks which
he declares and sycophantS paint, let
his deeds defend him, and his record
speak. Hanna is worth $40. DOC, 600; he
controls two hundred million more.
ROBBED in his wealth of power, what
good has he done? To what door of
want has he appointed relief? What
stricken one has he uplifted? What
orphan upheld? To what famine-bit-
ten face has he brought the hue and
rounded line of health?
Let the starved one of Springfield
Valley say. Owner of a hundred coal
mines, to what cold hearth has he fur
nished freight of comfort? With a
navy of his own, has he saved lives?
| Ask of those skulls and skeletons OF
former sailor folk down deep on the
bottoms. with the Great Lakes piled
above. They were Hanna's sailors,
swept overheard and drowned lik dogs.
Why, mani When these poor sailor peo-
pie ask at the hands of ongress a law
to paint a load line on these ships, a
line which years g English law and
Plimsoll gave to English seamen, it
was Hanna, who a a prompt lob
by against it, and Hanna money
struck the measure down. Today it
lies dead in these charnel houses of con-
gress, the committee rooms; dead by
the act 70 Hanna"