Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-05-22
WHAT SCARED HANNA
TOO E1ANY LABOR Leaders
ELECTED MAYORS.
Saw That Something Must Be Dohs,
Else Masses Woud Rule
the Glasses.


be the outcome of the coal strike?
said Senator Hanna NO one can
tell. have nothing to say as to the
merits Of the controversy. | have not
discussed them for publication. Our
mission is 20 act as 4 concilator. 1t
would be manifestly improper for ne
to say whether one side or the othe@
vas in the wrong But even if the
civic fadration should fail to settle
the strike it n.o4I4 net 13aan that it
has failed in il purpose for exc .tii1s
az influence on employers OF I&bos
aad tin WoraiHgmen.
senator Iaara callsa attention to
a signal victory which the counet'
of eonciiation has Won within the
last week without any newspaper no
torily. and indeed without any infof-
nation being promulgated rs to what
WAS going on. This VAS an ADJUST
ment Of labor and other troubles
which threatened at one time 70 force
all the newspapers OF the United
States To suspend publication
The troubles inVolyde all the mills
in the United States engaged in the
making of white paper. II 1t h:.d &C.
Cured it would have involved thou
sands OF wOrkingmen affected millions
of capital and deprived the n1bllc OF
its news. Senator Hanna estimates
newspapers would have ceased to
appear within two weeks. The three
combinations which control all the
white paper were involved.
If What his friends say is true, his
plan contemplated pot only industrial
peace in the United States, but an
eradication of the evils of socialism,
which, to the minds of political obse1N-
ers. are likely to flame forth at any
time.
Senator Hanna so1.ded his first
note OF warning at notable dinner
given him at the U'.lon League club OF
New York just after the election OF
1900, by the most prominent fnanciers
di1u ledUGIS VI luulollA III lllC OHieS0
States. Hundreds of millions Of dol
lars Of capital We're represented.
On this occasion Senator Hanna told
his hearers that during the two great
campaigns that he had conducted he
had been impressed with the tremen-
duous growth of sentiment in this
country that might be arrayed in
such g mass as to literally ove:whcim
the conservative. thinking element.
This is due to the large increase Of
the foreign born population that was
eentering in the great cities.
The situation, he described, meant
district danger from socialism and ;ln-
less steps were taken to lead this
great mass in the right direction 10
convince it that capital was it's friend
and not its enemy-a baneful effect
might be felt in the near future posi-
bly, in the campaign of19o4 and perhaps
earlier. When J. Pierpont Morgan
was called on for a speech after Sena-
ter Hanna took his seat, Mr. Morgan
replied: Senator aHnna has made
ny speech.
Senator Hanna had ben imIellel to
this view by many signs of the times
The size of the Bryan, vote was ore
Of them. Another was the result of
the election Of his own state in 1899.
Then Jones. the Golden RUE" mayo,
OF Toledo. running for governor, poll
ed more votes in the city Of Cleveland
than Nash, fRep3 and Nc! can
tBem9, combined This was the re.
suit Of all the foreign-born voters unit
Ing
Since he made his speech at tn
Union League club in 1850. manT
things have occurred to vin.lic@s
Senator Fianna's judgment as to TIE
dangers an adherence to the os1
methods would bring to capital. In
San Francisco d union musician has
been elected mayor. IN half a dozen
towns in Connecticut labor leaders
have been elected to office, and partl
lines have been obliteyated IN Yonk,
ers union printer was elected mayor.
and so it has gone all over IL coun-
Try. Never hefors was there such
tendency to the masses 70 array
themselves in politics against the
classes.
The belief that there is some ids.
t.e5 in the contention of labor that it
= Get setting its share Of the PROSPER
!tE &na THAI everybody will be benefit |
ed bH=i56or ana capital getting to-etn.