Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-07

do that takes money, II you come
through with this $500 .OOO, 900 loan
IL will be easy for Congress to advance
the money for this project.
Buying bonds is like getting a home,
too he went on. "It is having a stake
in the country. The banks shouldn't Z
be allowed to get this loan. 1t is too
good. Why, it will go TO 10 in year.
II is seven points better than any other
loan ever foatcd." N
He was asked whether he expected TO
call on Mayor Smith while in the city.
II hardly think So" he said He did
not know anything about Mayor Smith
he admitted.
When asked how he handled the prob
lem of free speech in Seattle and was
Informed of the police measures against
meetings and free speaking here, he said
he did not believe in that. '.
we have free speech, in Seattle"
he said. I'VE let them talk. but we
will not stand for any red flag parades
or for any speaking in which they may
advocate violence to overthrow the gov
1t and we save trouble"
Mayor Hanson is accompanied by his
brother, Major w. G. Hanson. NJ. c..
who was in France with the Eighty
fifth Division. Major Hanson was dis
charged in Chicago two days ago aud
joined his brother there. Mrs. Hanson
and one Of the nine Hanson children,
Eugene Field Hanson, aged four. are
travelling with the mayor on his tour
across the country for the loan.
Why He Ran for Mayoralty
He told today the reason for his
effort to become mayor Of Seattle.
My oldest boy. who is twenty three.
could not get into the army" he said.
so made up my mind to serve my
country right there at home Seattle
was so ovcrrun by the I. w. w. and
vice conditions were so bad that the
government refused to allow soldiers
and sailors to come there under the
then mayor.
II made my fight in Seattle on this
platform | stand for construction. not
destruction more factories and less
lawsuits, square deal for labor as
well as capital. for n loyal, united Sc
attic. Seattle from turmoil. treason
and the control of the I. w. w"
Under his administration Seattle has
not only held off the 7. w. w. and
made the city place soldiers can visit,
but the mayor has succeeded in buying
the whole street car system of the city
and making it pay on five cent fare
and has put the lighting system under
municipal ownership.
After his talk at the Metropolitan
Opera House tonight he goes to Balti-
more and Washington and then to New
York and Boston.
Not Fooled BY Fame
Once termed by his enemies as a
radical of radicals. now termed by them
an utraconscrvativc, Mayor Hanson,
the new big man" of tho Northwest
says he is not fooled by fame.
The man who beat the bolshcviki in
Seattle and thereby, perhaps, defeated
a movement for nation wide terrorism,
resembles in many ways the man he
most admired. Theodore Roosevelt. He
is full of action and epigrams. and is
willing to fight instantly for his con =
victions.
| lie has always been lighter against
minority rule, whether the minority
rule of tho capitalist and of special
interests. or the blatant. believing
bolsheviki. His fight against the Dol J.
shevik and /. w. w. in the city of
which he is mayor was successful be =
cause of his direct methods in dealing
with minority attempts at government
! control.
Coiner of Apt Epigrams
Mayor Hanson is II Coincr of keen
and snappy epigrams. He says one can
not compromise with wrong and he
never does. His ideas on that ub.icct
he expresses thus: "rhc right thing
to do is the best thing to do And that
is the principle he follows.
\ good orator and n good business
man, he is also a good father. He
has nine children. and six of them are
boys. And in the names of his boys
he has written his record
First. Ole, Jr.. now a man and n
! father. Next, Theodore Roosevelt Han
son--first term. William Taft Hanson.
about 1909. Eugene Field Hanson--a
literary lapse Bob La Toilette Han
son--that was few years ago. And.
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