Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-11-11
missionary of freedom, 'Or wen boycott

missionary of freedom, 'or Wen boycott
you"
The advertiser seemed lost to all sense
of the enormity of his transgressiOn
and instead of turning pale at the
thought of the punishment contained
in this threat he endeavored to excuse his
act. My ''illustrious and patriotic fel-
low citizens" said he, endeavOring to be
sarcastic, ~ have located in this city fol
the purpose of making living by pursu-
| ing an honest business, and in order to LET
the people know am here l must adver-
tise. The morning papers are the stan
dard advertising mediums of the city and
it would be folly for me to not take adj
vantage of them"
But" said the uphOlder of liberty,
''there are five thousand of us working
men in the Ohio Valley" las he empha-
sized the 'us'' the hardened advertiser
looked at him with an incredulous smile
who have pledged ourselves to wipe
out these papers and drive
their rats from our city and if you don't
stop patronizing them you must 60 too. -
To this Just and reasonable demand the
bigoted advertiser attempted to reply as
follows;
''If there are five thousand bOyeotters, y
said he, there are seventy thousand peO-
pie who are in sympathy with the papers
and opposed to boycotting and other IN
lawful conspiracies against the prosperity
of the city and State, and who believe that
an honest man has right to earn living
whether he belongs to the Trades Assem-
bly, or not"
OF course the champion of the people
wouldn't trouble himself to reply to such
"bosh, =" so he merely informed the unre-
generated man that they must have an
answer by Thursday, the eleventh day OF
November A. D., 1886, at II NJ, or they
would make Wheeling entirely too small
to hold him.
At this the prejudiced and misguided
reprObate went so far as to attempt to
show the missionaries that his side Of the
question represented the best interests OF
all classes.
you're doing harm TO the community"
said he, ''the effects OF which will be felt
for years. You have not only crippled
home prosperity, but you are keeping away
capital which would otherwise
locate here. The Marvin Cracker
Company, of Pittsburg, has contem-
plated erecting an extensive factory here
involving an outlay of $40, 900; but they
are disguised with your trouble, and have
almost resolved to give up the enter
prise"
The reformers in that mild and unOb-
trusive spirit which CharacterizeS. their ac-
tiOns would not provoke controversy with
such an unreasonable man, but merely
asked him to let them know his decision.
At this he rose to bold, brazen defiance and
said: ''No gentlemen; I'll not take out my
advertisement; you can 20 ahead and boy
colt and I'll advertise the fact, and ask
the patronage of the other bOycotted per-
sons and if ! can get their patronage I'll
soon be rich man. The bOyGOtters are
but very small part of my patrons and
your action will only increase
my trade" And then the degraded
wretch actually became so insulting as to
advise these high minded champions of the
public veal to emigrate TO a climate where
fall overcoats were unnecessary and To
take their boycott with them, Not wish
ing to remain in the society OF such be-
ing any longer, the committee retired to
continue their labor of love i'll ROre IA
vorable locality, while the Obdurate rufiian
rushed oil to the newspaper office to ill.,
crease his ''ad. " BOYCOTTER.