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

1eecace,."
From It's issue of last week.
II is given to few men 10 understand
things as they are. To understand
them fully we are forced 10 look az
their consequences. Sin may easily be
defined sin, says she apostle, Is law
lesSness. But no man gets adequate
ides of SIN looked at only in It's defni-
ton. Ii he wishes 20 get better and
truer and larger idea, be j. obliged to
consider its effects. IL separates man
from man; it causes hate and dis
cord makes confusion in Gods uni
verse builds jails and peniten-
tisrics aud gibbcts causes family
and social quarrels produces poverty
and sickness and misery makes fune-
rails, and grave-yArds. aud death; caused
the " Word" Of God TO become Man,
and TO be delivered unto shameful
death digs hell TO bring in everlasting
shame and confusion. This is sin in
Some Of its tremendous consequences.
Axe get some idea Of 1t nov, and the
more ats consequences are thought Of
4 ne more evil and fearful sin becomes :;
<<3oEs IN It's hUgeness, in its uglneSS.
~ IT. misery, in ITS tremendous and
<&cf-Rrowing hatefulness.
ewsnt TO know what " boycottipg ="
II We cannot know until we have
: )cp]td ct it in It's consequences. To
sui look we invite the attention Of
~ readers. 1t belongs to us as a
Efj<tian paper to look at it; for it
ls<erns humanity in its largest out
1tbk. Before it questions of scholastic
5heology. of the primitive organization
n the Church, Of the ministry, of the
+ node OF baptism, and like matters sink
5bto comparative insigniiicance. 1t is a
Qpestion OF humanity in its widest and
largest aspects, and for it to exist and
grow means the dissolution of society,
10 be preceded by riots and revolutions
and social evils, al which the heart Of
man shudders as at earthquakes and
storms and pestilences. 1t IS a subject
10 engage the deepest thoughts OF every
one.
Wesre not going to blame any man,
rot even the boycotterS. As the apos-
lie apologized for his countrymen after
they had crucided Christ, " wot
through ignorance We did it," so like
srology for our countrymen. They are
fellow-Citizens with us, brothers of ours,
ard so far as Virginia is concerned, citi-
yonS Of 10 mean Commonwealth. They
STE evils which alhct them, and they
tesi them; evils which we have been
discussing for "three years last past. -
But they ask for no sympathy
from their fellow-citizens because they
must work. All have TO work. Nor
sympathy because they cannot eat
game and drink wine, or because their
beds are not as soft as those Of others,
or because their houses are not so
large. They ask for no whining pity :;
but they do ask for justice aud regard
for their rights. They have a right
TO demand these, and if they can
not get them by individual de-
mards have a right to form unions
by which they may declare "injus-
tice to one of us is injustice to all if
YOU strike one Of us you will have TO
suike Us ALL" We are glad Of it. Men
will not get their rights in this selfish
world unless they demand them with
energy. We say to all hand-workers,
sgitate, agitate, sgitate; make your
selves heard until no man or corpora
ton shall be able to turn deaf ear to
your grievances, nor trample you under
foot as if you were not men made in the
image Of God.
But in doing this it is no wonder
(such is the seltiShness Of us all and our
iguorsnce) that they should think Of
themselves only, and not Of others.
To think only OF our own rights makes
US careless Of our duties; to think only
Of the duties Of others towards us
causes us to ignore our duties to them,
and as some of them have made huge
mistake we desire to point it out, and
by showing its inevitable consequences
we may in this way help them to un-
derstand the evil they are bringing
upon themselves and upon society and
the State as well.
Let Us look, then, at some Of the con-
sequences Of boycotting." A b c is
boycotted, for any reason suppose, by
the Knights of Labor. The conse-
quences are something like these-ior
We may remark boycotting does not
mean. as we were told the other day,
that the Knights of Labor will not traf-
fic with the boycotted, but, so far as
they are able, will not permit any other
person to deal with him /: If ID deals
with boycotted A b c, d is
boycotted A.; if E deals with ID, he,
too, is boycotted, and all through
society. So, we repeat, no man is
allowed to work for the boycotted until
be submit. lie will not submit, sup
pose, and that means starvation. No
man is allowed to buy from or sell to
HIM the milk-man can bring him no
milk, the ice-dealer no ice, the coal.
dealer no coal /; the physician cannot
tend his sick children; the druggist
cannot prepare him medicine, and, il
the boycotter is consistent, no bank
can keep his account nor the post-oiiice
give him his mail. This is what boy
cotting means if it be carried out.
But it may be said boycOtting does
not 60 into a mans family--only con-
siders him in his business relations.
Not to say how difficult it will be to
make such distinctions as to what re-
lates to him as a businessman and
what relates TO him as family man, it
is manifest, if the boycotters are right,
it is only because Of their pity, and not
because District justice, that his family
is spared. But will any man be con-
tent TO live dependent only upon the
pity of an irresponsible society9 The
boycotted mans family gets bread
and milk and fuel only because, for
the present, pity is stronger than
Justice. But this is the very
thing that the labor unions re-
fuse. They do not ask for pity, they
ask for justice and shall they, de-
manding this, demand Of others that
they shall live (so long 81 they will not