Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-08-20
SENATOR HANNk'S SPEECH.

SENATOR HANRES SPEECH.
 In the history of labor organiza- tions among serious obstacles con- fronted has been lack of sympathy, principally from capitalists.
 Lecturers, college professors and preachers, in their endeavors to jus tify labor reforms and magnify the rights of laboring men, have been publicly rebuked. The public mind has been prejudiced against labor unions because of their inefficient leaders and methods of warfare pre- scribed and followed.
 Conceeding lamentable mistakes made by unions, we instantly confess that they have been eminently educa- tive. Discussions in meetings of la boring men have awakened thought and compelled men to devise plans for their advancement, which have been grounded in wisdom and jus tice. All progress of laboring men thus far is simply report of the ex- plorations of labor unions. The thinking of the laborer has tended toward wisdom and happiness. Issu- ing from many fountain heads, these streams of thought all flow toward a final end. Today ''labor unions" are marshalled under the wisest lead efship in their history. The presl- dent of the National Miners Union is John Mitchell-a man whose genius, wisdom and moral sense are univer- sally recognized. He has commanded the respectful attention of the Ameri- can people, because he has appealed to their sense of justice and convinced them that his ambitions and aspira- tions are directly in the path of a progressive civilization. Barbarism means hate. Civilization means mu- tual friendship. This conception of civilization, which breathes through the eloquent utterances Of MT. Mitchell, has gained for him not only the confidence, but the cooperation of some righteous loving capitalists, among whom no one is more con spicuous than Senator Hanna.
 Probably no representative man oi the American commonwealth has been more brutally carricatured as the oppressor of the working man thar Senator Hanna, and this in spite ot the fact that he has been known tC have lived on the friendliest term. with the thousands of men who hav' worked for him.
 In his. recent speech before th' Chautauqua Assembly, at Urbana Ohio, on the old question of 'Labo and its Relation to Capital" he ad vanced some helpful suggestions proved beyond question his patriot ism, his honesty in the interest O labor, and his profound ambition t make sacrifices that he may aid i ushsring in an era ''when man | man shall brother be"
 Instead of compulsory arbitration he advocates friendly arbitration "because it brings men face to fac and heart to heart in way that the may know each other, discern eac others motive, and find for then selves a reason for what they do."
 He pronounces the question of lf Dor moral question, and claims ths men must be encouraged to treat eac other as human beings and fellow He challenges the honest judgmer of any man, touching the condition of a fellow man, who has not place himself in his place, and from h standpoint studied the situation. E points out the bene6cent resul which have been experienced by mi CTS and operators of coal felC through the negotiations of the Il terstate association, of which he is member, and shows how this associ ton is handicapped in Pennsylvan at the present time by the operator stubborn indifference toward u appeals of miners and the associ ton. He states that the contra framed and signed by bitumino operators and miners four years a! has been attended by peace and hs mony, good and successful busine operations.
 He most successfully confront, the insinuation that coal miners a men without honor, when he referr to the recent Indianapolis conve ton, where bitumInous coal miners, one man, voted to stand by their co tract and not inaugurate a symE thetic strike with the anthracite mi CTS. He discovers to laboring mt as well as capitalists, the abidil benefcent results of conciliation, gument, conference, reason. The C timism of this address awakens fai in the honor and manhood of wol ing men, and counsels patience Tn
 parties interested in working iowa a new social order nd relationsh The process of unfolding toward new condition will be slow, because is a moral unfolding and one of [ chief instrumentalities in our lal always helping the people iowa larger freedom, and peaceful soc enioyments the free school. Tn will the foreign untutored mil which entertains wrong conceptiC of our institutions, be helped to . sorb the ideas and principles Thl make true Americans.
 Long has this vast field Of SOC