Tart Reply To Hanna

TART REPLY TO HANNA.

Parry Takes Exception to His Remarks Made at Labor Banquet.

Indianapolis, Ind., April 23. - "Mr. Hanna's rushing to the rescue of organized labor, when yon come to think of it, is a somewhat astonishing spectacle," said D. M. Parry when asked for his opinion as to the attack made upon his labor position by Senator Hanna at the banquet of the Amalgamated Steelworkers at Columbus Tuesday night.

"If everyone has enjoyed the speech of the senator as much as I have," continued Mr. Parry, "it certainly cannot be claimed that he has not done his share in contributing to the era of general good feeling. Mr. Hanna, and I am glad to note that he has none against me, although I must confess that it is with some surprise that I read his declaration, that I display ignorance in my report.

"Of course I am aware that all this is not argument, but then there was very little argument in Mr. Hanna's speech. He takes up a paper which has met the indorsement of 98 per cent of the manufacturers of the country, as being a fair exposition of the socialistic tendency and what Carroll D. Wright calls 'the damnable practices of trades unionism' and makes what I think the country will hold as a poor attempt to answer it. He reads a section from this paper, then denies it is true and turns around, after sneering at the writer, and says in the manner of the ordinary stump speaker, 'boys, isn't that so?' Of course 'the boys' send up an uproarious shout of approval. Then he patted this man on the back and then that one, called Mr. Shaffer 'brother' and otherwise conducted himself as the presiding genius of a veritable love feast. This method of disposing of one of the most serious questions of the day probably takes with the kind of men that he was addressing, but I cannot help feeling that the rest of the country would have been better satisfied with a more dignified treatment of the labor problem.

"After the manner of a pettifogging lawyer, he picked out a couple of paragraphs of my report, held them up to ridicule, and then passed on to his own ideas as to joint agreement and the legal responsibilities of labor unions, evading all the main points brought out in my address. If there is anything more in Mr. Hanna's speech I fail to find it."