Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-09

they were consumers and had no
money 10 buy with, the farmers from
oyer-production would have no market
for their produce. Another bright idea.
lie should be taken back to the pine hills
amongst the roots and stumps and given
Il bull-tongue pillow aud frisky horse
and be made 20 use II about a
year and perhaps he would learn the
value of labor-sayiug machinery. Now,
Mr.. Editor, 10 is not my desire to poke
fun NJ any one and especially at the great
organization OF knights of Labor, but
do say they must be scarce OF material
when they give such men the use of their
hall and advertise the people TO call and
hear their principles expounded. | went
there for lniOrusion, and failing to get 10
| turn to fYTE GAZETTE, the acknowledged
champion OF the peoples rights, and ever
ready to cast the mantle OF charity
over our short cOmiDgs, yet boldly de-
nOuncing everything it thinks to be
wrong. The question ! wished TO put to
their speaker was boycottlng. What does
IL meang / do not remember hearing the
word in my school-boy days. IL must
have remained obsolete for sometime or
else originated in Ireland a few years ago
during the Parnell troubles. AZ least that
~ NY III ~ IfEOAitNllNlt Ol H. 10 lily Illluu
! 1t Is a species of blacklsting. If this be
| true, our supreme court, believe, has de-
cided that q man so blacblisted can recoS =
er damages. "What is sauce for the goose
| is sauce Tor the gander" II railroad
company can be made TO pay for boy
cotting a man why not the knights of
Labor? In reading your morning paper
| iind an article from the Fort Worth
! Artisan in relation to the boycotting of
one Canto, a Fort Worth butcher. Now,
! do not know this butcher, neither the
Chinaman, but there is a principle in
yolvcd in the use Of this arbitrary power
that is iraught with danger and should
arouse Just Indignation In the breast OF
every ircc-born American citizen. What
was this mans offensc2 1t seems he had
the temcrity TO rent his farm to whom
nc pleased, and for this offcnse he was
blacklisted. Feeling that this act would
iniure him financially, | suppose Mr..
Capto, as was natural, expressed him
self i'm language not pleasant to the ears
of some of the knights of Labor, where
upon they sent him their ultimatam TO
retract his words and annul his contract
or be ruined financially. Finding no law
in free America to protect him he was
forced to make the following humilating
acknowledgment "Pctitiouer shows
that at the time of the alleged wrongs
and injuries complained of he had no
conception of the magnitude of the order
of Knights of Labor or Of their unity OF
action and consequent power, all of
which he is now painfully cognizant.
Petitioner thus publicly acknowledges to
your assemblies this error, and through
your order would apologize TO Messrs
Jackson, Reynolds and Nugent for often
siye language used to them.n What a
scatliing rebuke is this to our
boosted freedom of speech, our land
OF the free, our home OF the brave I!
Men may speak i'll of the president of the
United States, they may even use often
siye language to him and live, but the
man that insults MesSrs. Jackson, Rey-
nods aud Nugent does it ut his peril. He
must take it back or starve. Now / ask
Where Is this to end? How do you know
how soon you may be selected as victim
to this diabollcal and arbitrary power2 Fol-
illustration, suppose | join the knights OF
Labor; | am constant reader of your
paper as well as thousands of others; the
knights of Labor commit some act that
you think detrimental to the interests OF
the public welfare; you come out and de.
HNuuCc IL ~ severe lcrulSi "HcTeupOn Jnt
Knights OF Labor issue their mandate
blacklisting Cor, as they term IT. boycott)
your paper ordering all knights of Labor
to withdraw their patronage. What
would he the resut2 1t seems to me
that 1t does not require very minute
observer to see that it means financial
ruin Dangerous doctrine: the press tc
united press of % on, ii high time for the he
10 the interest of all good citizens thai
nave the peace and welfare of our coun,
Try at heart before, as the preachers say,
IL Is eternally and everlastingly too late
ANTI-BoYCoTr.