The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-03-13

At the dinner of the Ohio society
at the Waldorf Astoria SenatOrHanna,
of Ohio, made speech in favor of the
recognition of the laboring man by
capital that aroused the greatest
enthusiasm.
''ThiS is an occasion to make a
man proud of his nativity" said Sem
ator Hanna, when the applause which
greeted him had subsidized. "Surely
Ohio is an incubator of statesmen and
equally surely is it soil productive
of great men in all walks and voca-
tiOnS of life. The men who do things
are the proudest products of any state
and the men who make themselves
felt in other states, as Ohio men have,
reflect the greatest credit on their ma
tivity." Continuing Senator Hanna
SAID:
"Apropos of doing things, some one
in this country has been doing things;
some one in this country has been do
ing things for the past 80 years and
doing them well. When one looks
back over what has been done in that
time he is almost rendered speeches..
Our evolution i'm that brief time has
brought us TO where we stand now in
the commercial and industrial world,
second to no nation on the face of the
earth.
1.-The great natural resources Of our
country coupled with the terrible en-
ergy of our cosmopolitan people have
made us what we are, apeople whose
capitalists of today were the laborers
of yesterday. The men who are at
the heads Of our great iron and steel
industries in this country are the men
who worked first at the puddle, the
furnace and the roll. There stands
the aristocracy of labor, not the aristo-
crazy of blood, but the aristocracy of
brains and Drawn.
1--WE have gone ahead in this coun-
try until now for the first time in our
history capital stands alone on its own
foundation. We are today creditor
nation and fast becoming the money
center of the world. 1t surely is not
strange that this question Of capital
and labor is being forced to the public
attention. 1t is not strange that the
men who do things should begin to
consider that problem from a social
standpoint.
''If the development of wealth is to
make us strong in this country we
should see to it that all who contrib
ute to the development of this wealth
have fair and equal consideration.
The men who work with their hands
are as much part Of this wealth as
the men who work with their brains
and they are entitled to a share of all
the good that comes from it.
"And now | want to say word to
you ABOUT the civic federation. 1t is
a new born organization, but is not
new born subject. 1t is elimination
of that concrete thought which has
led thoughtful and reasonable men to
consider something outside of their
own selfish interests. No man loyal
to his country will slut his eyes to
the importance of this thing.
"The man of little education and
small opportunities appeals to you to
lift him up and not by word or act to
keep him down. Therein lies the so
cial elevation of the country. The
federation has started in with the
idea that there shall be no class, no
one man better than another.
st is the object OF the federation
to appeal to the American people who
employ labor. the great captains of
industry, to join in this movement
and when they do this it is the begin
ming of things never thought of or
dreamed of before. To those few who
are laboring in this vineyard now
there comes nothing but praise and
commendation from every part of the
country.
IT want to take this opportunity
too, to thank the great press of the