The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-10-24
TRUSTS AREDEFbNDED.
6sa4"- Hanna Says Combines Are
Absolutely Necessary.
TOUCHES UPON LABOR
Says Labor Is Equal to Any Other Eco.
nOmic Questionable Completely
Breaks Down While Speak
ing at indianapolis.

indianapolis, Oct. Ex-senator Han
ma Of Ohio, who devoted Thursday TO
speechmaking in Indiana. addressed a
large crowd at Tomlinson hall Thurs
day night 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
reach for the stand dragging his body
over to it. where he rested his hand.
After a moments hesitation he an
nounced that his physical condition
would not allow him to say anything
more and he was helped to his chair
by Senator Fairbanks and Secretary
Whitaker of the Republican state
committee
Touching upon trusts. Senator Han
ma said:
Il do net propose to go into detail
upon the trust question. But I say
that in this great era of development
in the evolution which is taking place
all over this country, as if inspired by
the incoming of a new century, as if
to mark that epoch by a policy, we
must contend for our rights to do as
others have done when they secured
those markets. while they have con-
trolled them by the sheer power and
force of aggregated capital These
great combinations. 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 well being
ger of the organization of capital and
industry. They are absolutely neces-
sary, and along with them comes an
other proposition. and that is the or
ganization of labor.
The interest of capital and labor
acting together as partners in their
business is no new idea. 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 eco
nemic questions.
Il am opposed to the wasteful
strikes and lockouts. / depreciate the
difference between these great powers
that bring about a condition OF things
which is wasteful to the last degree.
Scarcely a year has passed by that we
have not had evidence Of the misman-
agement of these forces and now, while
men of greater and broader thought
are giving due consideration there is
hope, aye. there is certainty that
the question will assert itself in a
prominent place. not only in the hands
Of the people, but in the councils Of
the nation.
My proposition is that we recog-
NICE the rights of labor to organize,
treat them individually as fellowmen
and then Americanize the unions. Fit
them TO our institutions, bring them
in contact with and make them a part
of our great economic policies, consult
and consider them when their inter
ests are at stake and consider them
from a standpoint, as | say, Of the
golden rule"
The senator spoke of the anthracite
strike a nd Of the action of the btu
minous miners in refusing 10 vote for
a sympathetic strike. Their action had
proved to the world that a labor or
ganization can and will respect a con-
tract even when ii is made binding
only by their honor.