When the smoke of battle has cleared
away the people will be able to see
what an outrage was perpetrated under
the guise of law and order at Buffalo.
I In the language of one of the news
i papers of that city, “Imbecility, not an
archy, was the order of the day.” To
; guard against strikers numbering all
| told 475 men. hundreds of extra police
men and deputy sheriffs and 8,000 militia
| were massed in the railroad yards at
East Buffalo, at an expense to the tax
payers of not less than $40,000 a day,
and all this to save the robber railroad
barons less than SIOO a day and to back
them up in the violation of a law of the
state. The sheriff of Erie county and
the mayor of Buffalo took their orders
from the railroad officials. Every move
made was at the dictation of Webb ami
McLeod. The man who commanded
the military forces is the salaried freight,
agent of one of the railways concerned.
The militia of New York city and
Brooklyn were ordered to Buffalo three
days after the rioting and depredations
' <>f the hoodlums had been put a stop to
by the local authorities and local militia.
Not one member of the switchmen's
union had been arrested or charged
with disorder up to that time. Not one
man had been taken with arms in his
possession.
The newspapers of New York lied in '
their news columns as well as editorial
ly during the strike. Public sentimen.
