The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-04-26
Hanna and LABOR
TWO LEADING PAPERS COMMENT
ON HANNA's CHANGE OF HEART.
There IL Attributed to BE Some
Motive Behind 1t-one Paper Says
That He IL Interested In the
Ons.

Two leading American papers have
recently commented on Senator Han
mas position in labor Disputes. What
ever they may say rs 20 tt motivs
yet labor Is the gamer thereby. TIE
comments are as follows:
From the Baltimore Sun.
Why should Senator Hanna be 50
actively identified with the movement
to establish industrial PEACE? There
have been intimations that this inter-
est in the movemen: Is inspired by
political ambition. The senator, in his
speech on Saturday before the Phila-
delphia Academy of Political and
Social Science, gave a far more par
ticular reason. 1.-The division between
labor and capital" he said. has
reached crisis. Os an owner of in
dustrial securities, will say that in
order to make Investments safe we
must have industrial peace That is
motive which the simplest intelli-
gence can understand. Men who own
large blocks of industrial securities
have the most substantial reasons for
desiring to preserve harmonious rela-
tons with labor. 1.-THE trusts says
Mr.. Hanna, "have come to stay. The
great problem is 10 reconcile the two
antagonistic elements of labor and
capital" Trust securities will not be
a safe investment as long az labor and
capital are at odds. Industrial peace
means satisfactory dividends. Labor
disturbances mean small profits and
insecure capital. Senator Hanna's
candor is commendable. He does not
pose as a philanthropist or as a purely
disinterested statesman. In promoting
Industrial peace he Is promoting and
protecting his own pocketbook. That
is sufficient explanation Of his act
ivity as an advocate Of Cancellation
and arbitration. There might be a
nobler motive; it is inconceivable that
there could be a. stronger one. It is
no discredit to the Ohio senator to hold
the views attributed to him. They are
sound and sensible.
In the olden days Mr.. Mark Hanna
made. a. reputation for fighting labor
unions.
The father of Czolgosz. the anar-
chist, was one of number Of scab
workmen imported to Cleveland to
break up a. strike against properties in
which Mr.. Hanna was int Vested.
But things have changed, and Mr..
Hanna now is no longer the working
mans foe. On the contrary, he is the
workingman's friend, his warm friend,
his bosom friend, his best and only
everlasting friend.
When Mark Hanna hears of strike
in the North he rushes to the North
and settles the strike. When he hears
Of q. strike in the South The: rushes
South and does the same. He belongs
to all the committees that want to
lengthen wages and shorten hours.
Mr.. Hanna counts that day lost
whose low descending sun has failei
to discover him hustling about as
friend of labor.
There is nothing mysterious in Mr..
Hanna's sudden change. He wants
to be president of the United States,
that's all. He knows that to be presi-
dent of the United States, a man must
be supposed to be q friend of other
men.
The microbe of ambition has -mada
abode in Mr.. Hanna's practical mind,
and it is a different Mr.. Hanna from
now on.
One mans ambition is another mans
gain.