Gen. Butler Talks Out In Meeting

General Benjamin F. Buutler being ,. Vow V ,.1. lnnVina pff-or fic r.'.-j lloyt's interests in the Hoyt will contest, a Tribune reporter asked him ii he had read VVarner'a compromiso silvcr bill. The inquiry jead to a long talk, in the course of which the General said: "I have grandchildren who will live to see the Vanderbilta and the Goulds taken out to the nearest lamppost find hung in the most scientitic and skillful manuer. After there has been bloodshed we shall settle down again for a while. These money kings seo the dangers already. But they do not see the remedies. When I was a candidate for President, Gould said Butler must bedriveninto theground. Hu couldn't see that it was better for a man oí considerable wealth and a family and property interests to beat the head of the massea, and able to control them. He only saw in the background the torch of Communism, as he thonght. Some day a real red Communi&t will lead these men, umi then ho will sec the difieienco. Every man is a Communist now, in the eyos of the community, who preachos the equality of men. Christ wasthe Comnunist of Jerusalem. As the head of the labor element I could have settled tbis wliole railroad qncstion a9 no other man could settle it. The mistake I made in i-unning ior Prisident was like running against a stone wall. I knew that the people in all ages had failed themselves iu every important crisis of nuportanco to themselves. It is the history of the ages. But I wps foolish enough to think that the people had grown wiser and better; that the world had pitgressed in tho dircction of human knowledge and understanding and power of concentration. I thought the laborers of the new republic were ruore intelligent. They are not mtellteent. They wex-e afraid' of me becausel had a little property. They were just as foolish as Gould. But that is not all. Ninu out of ten of them would sell their votes for $2 apieco. I wa3 a fooi to think that this age was different from anv othcr. r-xpenence nas now tnugnt uio tna eamc lesson as history.