Show MARK HANNA AND LABOR Worldwide Is the influence of the vork of Senator ITnnna and his Civic cclcratlon In bringing together capital and labor No man within the time of our present generation has begun > r attempted to perform In any stage 0 L more Important function Since the arllest existence of labor and man from the day Adam and Eve wont forth to earn their living by the sweat of their brow there has existed a dif eicneo between the employee and employer em-ployer Their Inter 3t have apparent yut leant been antagonistic There have been differences of one kind and mother not alone upon the lines of wages and hours but upon lines fn olvlng every degree of society and commercial relations At times these differences have become so great as to reatc friction and there have been trikes cessation of labor stagnation if business loss destruction of prop rty elimination of Important Inter qts and finally bloodshed For generations there has been throughout the world a demand for some ono who c6uld adjust harmoniously harmoni-ously nnd fairly the differences which have existed between capital and labor la-bor some one who could arbitrate or frustrate the trouble and sepure good feeling and an equal distribution of the fruits 6f labor Arbitration com nittees have tried and failed Lawmakers Law-makers have made It a study and the courts have uniformly pronounced the I difference to be Inbred and Incurable Many political campaigns have been ought along lines of labor nnd many candidates good bad and indifferent have fallen between the stools when this subject In whatever form became nvolved In the issues And now comes forward a man with out sinister or selfish motive and with In a few months accomplishes what generations oC wise men have failed to master Senator M A Hanna who in the Presidential campaign of 1S9G was renounced by the yellow Journals asa as-a labor crusher but who guided the ship that brought In a tremendous success suc-cess for McKinley and Hobart and who In the campaign of 1000 added luster to that victory by achieving a still greater party success has Invented n plan which Is bringing capital and labor la-bor together and averting strikes at very effort No better man in the en Ire country could have been seeded se-eded to carry out the splendid Idea For thirty years Mr Hanna has been one of the most extensive employers ployers of labor In our country His men have always been paid the top rages given the most generous treat mnntuand they have never gone on strike or offered complaint and Mr Hanna and his enterprises have been prosperous Senator Hannas plan is ono of direct dealing and the taking or employees Into the confidence of the employer kind and frank treatment consideration and justice between man and man Senator Hannas Civic Federation Fede-ration composed a few distinguished capitalists employers and a few rep esentatlVes of labor i has been In exIstence Istence but a few months yet it has settled seven strikes and averted sev ral others and prevented the Idleness Idle-ness of hundreds of thousands of men and the loss of many millions of dollars dol-lars Senator Hanna says that the employer ployer must go more than half way in meeting the employee that the former for-mer Is responsible for 3 fair division br profs and that no employer can expect faithful and continual service except he is fair and kind to his employees em-ployees The Senator Is also In favor or labor unions as being conducive to better and more work and the highest type of social conditions among laborers labor-ers But he denounces socialism as inimical to society and industrial development elopment He believes as do most American citizens that Socllastlo Ideas are impractical and unnatural and tend to lower rather than elevate those who labor Tho work of Senator Hanna Is being watched by the people of the entire civilized world Its effect may revolu lionize the social and labor conditions of the universe Instead of strikes Idleness and violence not to mention destruction of property and estoppel to growth we are having peace and plenty and labor l a well as capital vas never so prosperous And yet here follows this beneficent and humane hu-mane work of Senator Hanna the clatter of little selfish and Jealous or envious inouthings that there must be mouthlng some political motive behind the dIn i Ingulshcd Ohioans labors There are hose whg are so small as to pretend to believe that no pne would do what Senator Hanna Is doing unless he was a political aspirant Such marvelous uccess too could not they profoas to believe follow the Work of any one Ir he did nothave the cooperation oC those who desired his political elevation eleva-tion It Is a pity that there are such pinheaded souls in this great and free America Senator Hanna was the first trst employer em-ployer In the State ot Ohio to meet and treat with his employees as an organized or-ganized body I was over twentyfive years ago The cordiality of his re ccpllon his generous action and his assistance to organized labor from that time to this mode for him mo a personal sonal friend of every man who has worked for him or who ever knew of his attitude toward labor With him it Is a principle not a a necessity He has helped his men and asslsted alstec organized or-ganized labor when there was no call for It and when at times it operated cal agalriBt hie Interests financially Interests fnanclal That Is the secret reason why he never had strike anti never lost a friend from amongst his employees Senator Hanna Han-na would rather bo the mediator between be-tween capital and labor l and establish I lines of adjustment which would Inure cure harmony and peace and prosperity pros-perity to worklngmcn and cooperation coopera-tion between employer and employee than be King or Emperor or Prcoldent of the United States for life And grateful for and appreciative of the generous compliments of his friends ho evidently does not Intond as he has announced frequently oC hate to permit any disturbance of his patrol Ic work by any misinterpretations which may be made of his motives by political opponents or tho expres nlono of appreciation VhIch come from grateful and admiring friends |