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Show Tha SiIvtion Army end r.Ir. H&nna. This week's issue of the War Cry, the Salvation Army publication, contains a beautiful tribute to "v" the late Senator Hannah-last word of the many that have filled all classes of periodicalssince the demise of the great American citizen. It is quite evident now that Mr. Hanna was not understood by the majority of the people pf America. They thought of him as the . flinty-hearted multimilllon aire, an enemy of labor, unscrupulous, unpatriotic. Now it turns out that he was not sucha very wealthy man, that the labor organizations considered consid-ered him one of their most valued friends, that he was not only scrupulously honest, but that he was generous, a companion of the poor, conscientious in matters of honor, an upright Christian, gentleman in the truest sense of the term. The Salvation Army never indulges in euphemisms. " It calls' a spade a spade every time. Therefore when the War Cry devotes two pages to the good deeds done for the Army by the late Senator it means that Mr. Hanna was trusted for his worth and genuineness. j "The wreath of grateful memories," says the War Cry, "which we reverently lay upon the grave of America's brilliant son and statesman will blossom blos-som and not wither, and will yield abundant fcfruit in the hope and help that we shall seek to carry to the hearts and homes of the working classes whose cause Senator Hanna was not ashamed to champion cham-pion and espouse." " . To have possessed the friendship and the confidence confi-dence of the lamented statesman is sufficient to stamp the worthiness of any man or institution. |