The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1901-12-20


If the plans in which Senator Hanna
is now reported to be more interested
than in any other are carried to full
tillment the name Mark Hanna will
mean anything but what the opponents
of the republican party in the past few
years have attempted to make it mean.
The fact is that Senator Hanna has
undertaken the solution of what is un-
doubtedly the most stupendous problem
before the American people today, and
the one in which in the greatest degree
the advancement of this country is con-
cerned. 1t is nothing else than the
effort to provide a means whereby the
powers of capital and labor may be
permanently reconciled so that each
may rely on and trust the other and
each do all in its power to further
mutual interests But he has expressed
this great parpose in characteristic
words of his own.
In New York dispatch to the Chica-
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Hanna is reported as saying 81 would
rather have the credit of making sue
cessful the movement to bring labor
and capital into closer relations of con-
fidence and reliance than be president
of the United States. think it is the
grandest thing that could be accom-
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no greater monument than to have the
world remember that did something
to end wars between American labor
and American capital"
On Tuesday of this week conference
between large number of the greatest
capitalists, labor leaders, and public
men not intimately connected with
either Of these great forces was held
under the auspices of the American
Civic Federation and some serious work
was done along the lines above sug-
gested. A committee of thirty-six was
finally appointed to devise the working
plans for giving a practical test to the
purpose of harmonizing the divergent
interests. The first man named for this
committee was Senator Hanna. From
the list of the labor leaders come such
names as Gompers, Mitchell, Sargent,
and Shaffer, while from the list of
public men at large come such men as
Elk President Grover Cleveland, Arch.
bishop Ireland, Bishop Potter, Presi-
dent Eliot, of Harvard. and others.
1t is unnecessary to say that the solu-
ton of the questions which this COM
mttee has before it involves great diff
ticulties. They are such as demand the
keenest and most mature minds for
their solution. Above all they demand
the added power which alone the earnest
effort of the great capitalist can furnish.
However it can be readily seen that not
only does the committee above referred
to have all that could be asked in the
matter of trained brain and sincere
desire for the welfare of the masses and
of the country in general, but it also
has in the enthusiastic championship of
Senator Hanna and the associates
whom he has already interested in the
matter and who are already interested
in the matter as the result of their own
thinking, ali that 1t needs to ensure
great and lasting results for America.
Senator Hanna has never been in the
habit OF doing things by halves and with
the great powers of his energetic per-
sopality backed by the powers Of his
and the millions of the as
sociates whom he can attract to the
work. the work which he will be able
to accomplish for the betterment of con-
ditions in the industrial world and the
consequent Improvement in the condi-
ton of the laboring men themselves
will be certain to be as he himself OK.
pressed the wish that it might be, the
greatest monument which could be left
to his memory. And all his past life is
o guarantee that he will be successful.
1t is q committee with giant minds en-
rolled on its membership and one that
can be counted on from this time for
ward for gigantic efforts is that of
Senator Marcus A. Hanna