Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-02-28

cease IL at once.
There arc other consequences. II IL
be right TO boycott, it is right to be
boycotted. If union men boycott nom
union men, and they have the same
right 10 boycott them, how will 1t
( Woik! A mans mill and -four, sup
pose, are put under the boycott ban,
ana every merchant who buys this
flour is put under like ban; so non
union men meet TOR they have the
same right TO form union as others,
and they publish to retail dealers,
Unless you do sell that Hour we will
not deal with YOU" Here, then, are
the sellers Of this flour under
I the upper and neither millstones.
J IL they sell the flour the union men
boycott them, iC they do not sell II non
union men boycott them. Under such
circumstances how long can business
/ be done! An innocent man, no party
TO labor troubles, will not be able 10
support himself, because boycotted for
one thing by one party and boycOtted
for another thing by another party.
What a state of society. Not satisfied
with this, suppose the non-union men
who refuse to live by the pity of others
having cometo regard boycotting as evil,
and only evil, and its prime movers
as destructive Of society, go to the diff
ierent newspapers mot to speak Of
others besides), and say to them, You
have boycotters in your Office if you
give employment TO such men we will
refuse TO give you our advertisements
will no longer subscribe for your pa
peI-for it is evident that if it is right
TO boycott it is right to be boycotted-
what will become Of the newspapers:
They cannot live without patronage SO
they die as matter OF course.
and their compositors and press
men die with them, are turn
ed adrift, no work for them now
and as they have no intention OF starving
and letting wives and children starve,
then come riot and bloodshed, and, it
may be, revolution. But this is the
very thing no man wants save Most
and the atheistic anarchists. As we
desire to live, so we desire to let others
/ live; as We desire justice TO others, we
want like Justice for ourselves. We
/ beg our fellow-men, therefore, to cease,
/ Of their own conscience, an evil which,
/ if universally practiced, means the dis
solution of society and the destruction
| Of the State.
+ There is another consequence to be
looked at. We will suppose the man
who is boycotted refuses to boycott,
but that he makes appeal to the Law Of
/ the land, under which all can get JUS
tice. His plea to the courts is, II
have been injured in my business by
I \ Il. a boycotter, and | ask for dam
ages and justice" The courts are
/ obliged to listen; so jury is sum-
moued. But the plaintiff has right
to have his cause tried by an Impair
! tia Jury so as men are summoned
they are asked, 4" DO you thiok Won
have a right TO boycott: " II they
say yeS, manifeStly they cannot Judge
impartially Of the case before them,
and they are set aside and iury got
ten who are auti-boycotters. Bat here,
and in the very temples Of justice, So
ciety is between the upper and neither
milestone. If boycOtters sit on the
jury the plaintiff says he can get no
Justice; If bOycOtters are not allowed
to sit on the jury the Union men say
they can get no justice. So here are
two parties in the State, both affirming
they can get no Justice from the courts,
which exist only for this purpose.
How long before there will be riot and
revolution and the disintegration Of So
ciety:
1t is useless to pursue this fearful
evil further. We make appeal to our
fellow.men for justice and kindness and
humanity one to another. None Of us
have duly considered boycotting in its
fearful consequences but as we do
they are fraught with untold evils. Let
us all who want our rights maintain
the rights of others; if we want
justice, let US do justice il we
do not wish to be boycotted, let
us not boycott; if we want to be re-
spected, let US respect others; in a
word, as Christ bids us, " we must do
unto others as we would others should
do unto u.s." If employers will not
act thus, they can expect nothing good
from those they employ if the en-
ployed will not act thus, they can ex-
pect nothing good from their employers;
and this means the disintegration Of So
ciety sooner or later.
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