The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-09
BOYCOTTING.
The Houston Situation as it
Appears to a Distinguished
Hebrew Preacher.
BOyCottiDg in tho Abstract and
BOycotting In the
Concrete.
The Houston \ tuation as Affect
tng the Iadustrial Interests
of Texas.
Rabbi voorsanger ON Personal
Liberty and Natural Rights of
Man-Read the Document.

called early yesterday morning at
Rabbi Voorsanger's rooms at the Nc
Clelland hotel, and found the learned
gentleman in the act of indicting edi-
torials for his own Journal, the Sab
bath Visitor, which is published in
Cincinnati, o. DR.. Voorsanger has
gained reputation in this state for
sound, intelligent conservatism, and
his articles, which are eagerly read IN
this country, are permeated with
degree of plain, homely sense, that
lends TO them rare attraction.
doctor" said the reporter, "the
editor-in-chief desires me to ask you,
once more, to give the people of Waco
your opinion on the boycott"
"You are very kind" said Rabbi
Voorsanger, but see no reason why
I should formulate an opinion upon
a question, with which am not con-
cerned In the slightest degree. That
is, as far as l am personally con-
cerned. am theologian and stu
dent, and the laity Is amply capable
of disposing of civil questions with
out interference from the clergy"
"But you have formed an opinion,
Doctor%
"That | have. AS a citizen ii is my
duty TO study the interests and the
welfare of the commonwealth, and
take keen interest in the proper de-
velopment of education and BUSH
ness"
"Then, why not, as a citizen and q
writer, express yourself upon this
question:
swell, my friend, you press me
hard. If you are so very anxious for
the opinion of Il man, who is neither
lawyer or business man, you can
haveit. But, my young man, be care
full with your pencil, for should not
wish to contradict your published
stateme and Barlow is hard
fighter, with whom 1t is safest to be
at peace"
The compact thus being made, DIR.
Voorsanger gave the following
opinion:
Bovcotting, to my notion, is a pro-
ceeding which deserves the severest
condemnation of all good citizens.
Ii is not self.protection, IL is revenge
II is not the act of men who fight for
the defense of their rights, but an ex-
preston of peeverish ill-temper, that
stirs the bile Of the commonwealth.
My sympathies with the working
class, which have been known siDce
my boyhood, are interfered with by
these so called boycotters. am
deeply indignant, for know that the
public pulse is stirred as If by a
touch of malignant fever, and an i'm
preston prevails that human rights
are interfered with. That is the ex-
act status. Organized labor Is huge
elephant, melted by malicious keep
ers to lift up its enormous paw and
shatter civilization to the winds "
ado not think continued the
Rabbi "that am fond ofdenunciation.
But deprecate the smallest inter-
ference with human rights. If labor,
for its self-protection, organizes
against the presumed rapacity OF
capital, can but wish it god
speed. The working man has rights
that respect, encourage and will de-
fend With all the energy of my man
hood. He is entitled TO proper and
just return of his labor, he is en-
titled to healthy comfortable home;
he is entitled to leisure and rest, and |
to as perfect an education of his |
children as is enjoyed by the rich.
Can shy any more to express my |
fullest and deepest sympathy with |
the toilers for bread? | am one my
self; own not dollar in the world,
and know what il means TO be poor
aud to labor in the sweat Of my
brow. will go even further, and
say that the tendency of capital Is al
ways aggressive. Accumulation Is a
term that indicates disposition to
use all means at hand for the aggre-
cation of capital A poor man enjoys
his days earnings; but let him have
hundred dollars In bank, he will sigh
and study the means for accumulating
the second hundred. II IL the same
with the millionaire. Hence, it is
right that men, who believe that
their earnings, or the necessary
means to support their families
are endangered. should seek the
means of protection. Is II to be sup
posed that reasonable beings will
utilize means of violence, when there
arc Others at band2 Violence, re-
yengc, ill-temper, these are the CON
stitutional planks Of the mob, not of
the national workingmen. They tell
me that liberty was born of the
French revolution. It is black, bit.
Ter lie. Liberty shrinks from ascot
ition with blood-stained hands.
ell you, my friend, that such forms
II revolution are phases of the very
worst slavery TO which mankind was
'yer submitted.
Just look 1T the matter from a
cry practical standpoint. | employ
on, a. q reporter, at the sum or
flank dollars per week. That ls a
ontract. At the expiration Of that
Month You demand an increnso OF