Show hi HANNAHS HANNAS SPEECH THE LINCOLN LINCOLN t flAT DAY AY of f Mark was wu i a 16 uc TuE I I tion inasmuch as it ft contained so o little of fhe tue old cheery y YI ent Marcus Instead there ran it a strain a tt frankness and an an air aft cf d c foreboding one would never expect from the genial friend of the good trusts and te e good president Mr Hanna was w speaking on ii the Man Mt in Politics and 1 this his ls first I Words word drip with briny sadness sadnesS Politics said tie be in a voice tremulous with witti emotion is i business and very severe ere business at t that In w that faraway way glance which steals from front tie Hanna eyes as a he te voices voice tail th great toad and bitter truth one can see Hee he tie is thinking of that overdue note pays paya e to the good trusts trita for fr campaign funds received and id the obstinate senate tieh refuses to toh honor h or his tia 8 ship subsidy draft Verily V IJ it Uis Is all aJl business bu lne s and ad severe vere business WOo too And having freed his mind of this tails sentiment our erstwhile taciturn Mark grows g garrulous and adds adda The Tite influence of the business businessman man in politics is ismore ismore ismore more g than one would at nt t first Imagine Coming from such an au authority as Mark this statement 8 must be accepted without a question The public ImbUe has long tonK understood that eminent business boniness bu men like Uke Mr Rockefeller Mr Morgan and M Mr Carnegie could and did exert a very tent potent p influence over Mr Hannas administration It has baa known that the influence of Mr L Rockefeller and a few other w responsible r for lor the ship subsidy I bill bin It has bas imagined much more bAit luit it was not prepared to be told that the tile 1 influence of these men in politics even surpasses the i bounds of imagination This piece pi e of confidential information is followed up lip by another nother when Mr Hanna informs the public or that vast vt majority of it that works for fI its living that it wields ua a great eat Influence for good or r evil as a it is see things It is refreshing ng ng to know that we have to be made to t see things But there is it in this mention n of oJ evil a taint of a foreboding that there is a e limit to the power of even men as a le and nd Air Mr lT Rockefeller to make the public pubic pu lic see He as Z the good trusts and the good president have 4 us see ee them em |