The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-10-24
SENATOR HANNA SICK
UNABLE TO CONCLUDE SPEECH
AT INDIANAPOLIS.
Says Question of Labor Must Be Con-
sidered Along With Other Eco
nomic Subjects-Waste-
full Strikes.

Indianapolis, Oct. Ex-senator Hanna
of Ohio who devoted the day to speech
making in Indiana, addressed large
crowd at Tomlin's Hall tonight. The
Senator nearly broke down at the close Of
the speech.
He was standing some distance from
the speakers table when his strength
seemed to fail him and he had to reacn
for the stand, dragging himself over to
where he rested his hand. After a mo-
ment's hesitation he announced that his
physical condition would not allow him
to say anything more and was helped to
his chair by Senator Fairbanks and Sec
rotary Whitaker, of the Republican
State Committee.
The Senator's speech followed closely
the lines of his address last night at
Cincinnati. Touching upon trusts. Sena-
tor Hanna said:
II do not propose to go into detail
upon the trust question. But l say that
in this great era of development, in the
evolution which is taking place all over
our country, as IL inspired by the in
coming of a new century, as II to mark
that epoch by a policy, We must con-
tend for our rights to do as others have
done when they secured those markets,
while they have controlled them by the
sheer power and force of aggregated cap
ital.
These great corporations, some of
them may be bad, but not ALL at any
rate. it is the natural evolution upon the
basis of the right of every man to do
as he pleases with his own, under proper
restrictions and with due considera ton
for the people and the we'll being of our
Government.
There is no danger of the organization
of capital and industry. They are abso-
lutely necessary and along with them
comes another proposition and that is the
organization of labor.
THE interest of capital and labor act
ing together as partners in their BUSH
ness is no newt dea. But in this age of
development is coming, aye. the time is
here now, when that question of labor
must be considered alongside of and
equal to all other great economic ques-
tons.
II am opposed to the wasteful strikes
and to lockouts. / deprecate the differ
ence between these great powers that
bring about a condition OF things which
is wasteful to the last degree. Scarcely
year has passed but that we have
not had evidence of Encouragement of
these forces and now while men of great
er and broader thought are giving due
consideration, there is hope, aye, there
is a certainty, that the question will as
sert itself in a prominent place not only
in the hands of the people, but in the
counsels of the nation.
My proposition is that we recognize
the rights of labor to organize, treat
them individually as fellow men and then
Americanize the unions and fix them TO
our institutions, bring them in contact
with and make them part of our eco
nomlc policies. consult and consider them
Il hnFp int at ataIr
consider them from a standpoint, as /
say, of the Golden Rule"
The Senator spoke of the anthracite
strike and of the action of the bitumin-
Gus miners in refusing to vote for a
sympathetic strike. Their action had
proven to the world that a labor organi-
cation can and will respect a contract.
even when it is made binding only by
their honor.