Show WORDS 0 OF COMMON SENSE A paper that is none too friendly to the Republican can part party th the Indianapolis News discusses Mark MarkHanna alk Hanna in an excellent spirit phit What it says anent 1 hi his address R before an au Ohio Chautauqua assembly on the time subject of strikes is worth perusing It begins hegins 1 by hJ- the statement We Vc suppose e there are few people peo peo- pIp who an any longer doubt douht the honc honesty ty of Senator Hanna's Hannas interest in the labor question He lie has been leen brutally caricatured and denounced as mis the oppressor and lavel of the and this in spite of the fact that he lie was known to ha have hae e lived li on the friendliest fi terms with the time worked for Ol him But gradually men have ha corne come to see him in his true truc character and it is now known that whatever his mis faults fault hostility to labor lalor is not one of them Senator Hanna d declared that the question fuestion was not political and indeed that it was not solely economic but hut that it a was moral as well weH lie He in insisted isted that the best way to to b reach mens men's minds and men men's hearts is to appeal appeal ap ap- ap peal first to the time heart and then reason with the mind Of the time National Civic ic Federation mind and nd its work he said In eer every instance hut but one in a ten- ten months mouths life w we have settled every ery labor difficulty tha that has come to us This one instance where the organization failed was the anthracite coal strike e. I admit that the time Civic Federation has failed in its efforts efforts efforts ef ef- ef- ef forts there It is hard to conciliate it is hard to o arbitrate arbitrate ar ar- ar a question n when only ly one side will wiH consider it Of course there here could be he no conciliation or arbitration ar ar- ar alion in Pennsylvania for fm the employers employers- declared de de- de I clarel that there was nothing to arbitrate that the themen themen I men men must surrender that the strike must he be crushed The Tim Senator showed show how easy it is to get along with time the unions minions He lIe pointed out th the example set b by the time operators operator and operatives opel in the time oal fields ld where p peace ac has now nov reigned for fOl f four ur years Of course there is no r reason ason says the time Indianapolis In News wh why a policy that has succeeded e ed so 80 well weB with the bituminous men would not also suc sue succeed with the anthracite men After all the time main thing timing is the time spirit in which the problem is ap ape ap- ap We re must m ume that men men even coal miners are miners are prepared to do 10 what is right and to be ie reasonable and must of course admit that they have ha quite luite as good a a. right to organize as have ha their employers The he best wa way in iii which to make a man trustworthy is to trust him This is Senator Hanna's Hannas view Of the time anthracite course owners mine maywin may maywin maywin win but bLit the time victory will be he like that won over oyer the time the Boers The world will always as regard it as a great wrong Senator Hanna's Hannas words ou ought ht to appeal to the manhood and the time sense common of the huH head er CL coal barons |