New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-29
ERASTTS WIM4N ANSWERS QUESTIONS.
SOME OF HIS REMARKS AT PROHIBITION PARK
YESTERDAY.

At Prohibition Park Staten Island, yesterday AFTER
noon there was a great crowd and IT was repaid Tor
coming for some interesting topics were up lot us
CUSTOM Letters from authorities on the sup!ec' u
labor and wages were read, and ErastuS Nlmah
answered some questions which had been put TO MIN
regarding his remarks at previous meeting al winch
he had made a speech against capital ana aghhsl
the calling out OF the militia TO suppress me bu""'o
rioters The first question was:
"Many understood you to say that you were ais
cllsted that your had TO 60 TO Buffalo TO del'hu Inc
property Of great railroad kings. ON the contrary
is 1t not true that the soldiers went to Buffalo 70 pu
down lawless acts, and to keep the peace! Is ho'
This a duty to be performed by the Government
whether 1t be the cottages of the poor or the store
houses and palaces OF the rich that threatened ?!
"The first statement is not true" said Mr.. Winan.
a. am glad and happy that my son Is good soldier
ana that he can be called upon when needed Though
| am a stranger and alien here. am glad That
have four big enough 20 be good ciukenS. ana
that three Of them good soldiers. OF course, !
do not deny that the Government should protect the
property Of all alike but do deny that there was any
need for such an immense military force as was called
out TO go 10 Buffalo. 1t utterly disproporconate
and unnecessary TO call out all these troops to sup
press 400 strikers"
1.-THE second question was: "Dd you say that The
vanderbits, the webbs and the Carneg1es must take
care Of their own property, That they must not
expect State troops to settle their troublesf"
"The Government stoud protect all citizens when
1t IL necessary Mr.. Winans reply: but there Is
a big distance between local force and STATE force
| maintain that Buffalo there was no violence
which could not have been dealt With by the local
force. The trouble Is that capital can command STATE
aid easily. Ii cannot be denied that there Is a
growing tendency TO suppress strikes by military
force.'
"what did you mean by saying that the most dan
gerous Of all unions and combinations those Of
rich men and rich corporations that these were the
Kind Of strikers that need most 10 be fearcdl" was
the third question.
Mr.. Winan said ! mean what said. The most
marked OF the great economic changes which Is taking
place In this wonderful country Is the daily formation
OF combinations OF capital and industry. They, and
net the combinations Of wDrkingmen, form the real
danger 10 the community. What more dangerous
thing has there boon lately than the consolidation Of
the coal interests? l undertake TO say that about
ninc-tenths OF the coal lands east Of the Allegheny
Mountains controlled by about half dozen men.
That hafdozcn could starve Ncw-York next
winter II they chose The military should have been
called out against this coal interest and not against
a few workingmen who struck for an hours pay for
an hours work. They have struck a blow at every
industry that makes wealth. by controlling the fuel
necessary to make steam they control everything re
qurinS steam. VINO Will say that these are not the
strikers most TO be 1cared2 y
John Jarrett president OF the Amalgnnatcd As
sOcation o, Iron ana Steel Workers. wrote re-
greet TO say that a. a rule have always found that
the men receiving the largest wages were those Who
saved tho least The great curse Of the Iron and steel
workers Of country has been drink. The Anal
gamacd Association OF Iron and steel WORKERS, rs an
organization. strongly advocates temperance, =.
Yet the members Of that association are strongly ad
sobricty and thrift blessing, without them they
arc an unmteated evil"