New-York tribune., 1912-04-19

be established between the great cap
tains OF industry and their employees the
country as a whole would benefit 10y the
free aggregation OF capital
Mr.. Croly traverses I'm detail the career
OF Mr.. Hanna as political manager, SEN
ator and potential Presidential candi-
date, drawing n picture OF man of
great ability and practical efficiency and
Of continually expanding usefulness.
His faults are not blnked: on the con-
trary. they are even badly set forth. but
through them we see the human quality
Of the man, his steadfast honesty ac-
cording to his conceptions. his disinter-
estedness and his charm which on per-
sonal contact, almost invariably con-
verted those who had been led TO be-
lieve him some sort Of a monster. The
author says:
Mr.. Hanna's personality and career had
, all essentially social value, which the op-
ponents or his political and economic opin-
IONS should be the last to ignore. He gave
highly individual expression both to the
practical aspect Of pioneer Amercanism
ana TO Its really underlying tendency. The
aggressive and sometimes unscrupulous in
diFlduallsm or the pioneer was redeemed by
the conviction that In doing we'll for him
self he was also doing we'll for society The
pioneer honestly identified and confused in
divldual and social interests, and he was
honestly concerned as much for the one as
Tor the other. The society In which he was
interested was not an abstract remote en-
tity. II was a living group OF men and
women, whom one liked or dlslked helped
or hindered, and who aroused in one an
other essentially nafQhhnrlU M q
hopes and aspirations Of better social
state was an extension Of the actual good
Will which he felt toward his associates
individually and as a body.
In this region, also, Mark Hanna helps
us TO understand the pioneer American,
and the pioneer helps us to understand
Mark Hanna Personal ties and associa-
tions composed the substance OF his life.
During each successive phase Of his career
he made few enemies and many friends.
He made enemies because he had to fight
his way to his goal. He made friends he
cause he could make his own the interests
Of other men. He was building up better
society In his own vicinity by treating his
associates as he would like TO be treated
by them. According to his own lights he
always played fair-not merely toward his
friends, not merely toward his business as
sociates and employees. not merely toward
his political associates. but toward his per-
sonal constituents and toward public opin-
Ion. This spirit OF fair play is character
istic of pioneer Americanlsm and consti-
tutes its best legacy to future American
society. . . The economic and political
system advocated by Mr.. Hanna may not
make for social fair play; but any one who
rejects the system should be the more will
ing to recognize the good faith OF the man.
His personal behavior toward other men
was directed toward the realization of those
social values, the promotion OF which Is de-
clared To be the object OF better system.
If he was lacking. az his critics have de-
clared, in idealism, the deficiency was at
least partly due to the very reality OF a
certain ideal element I'm his own life. An