Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-24

Rev. Dr. McLane, pastor of the College street church, said: I would regard boycott | ing the COURIER for refusing to discharge faithful workmen who have served the office 1 long and faithfully, some of them for thirty years as an act of great injustice and vio-
 lation of the fundamental principle of our national constitution, viz.: "That all men have right to life, liberty and the pursuit l of happiness" Such course cannot but 1 ultimately prove to the Knights of Labor | boomerang and a two-edged sword, which | they would do we'll not to use. | Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Daley | said think the statement in the COURIER
 is 8 very fair one, and I don't believe in men
 coming to you and saying that you shall
 turn out your old and faithful employees and
 take in others to fill their places. That is | going too far, and as the principle is all wrong the people will not uphold it. You can say that said this, as I have been workingman myself and know what am
 talking about and what is just. The wages your men earn are good and no fault can be | found with them.
 l A Chapel street merchant said-I think it
 very unjust to do such thing as boycott the l COURIER, as the entire principle is wrong. Lawyer George D. Watrous said-I think | the public will uphold the COURIER in its 1 just action and it would be showing very | mean and unj just policy to turn out faithful
 men at the dictation of any union. The pub ! lie will uphold the COURIER in this matter | and should the union hold out against it it would only be giving themselves rope to hang themselves by. I believe in the main | objects of the Knights of Labor, but not in doing unjust thing, as boycotting the COURIER would be.
 Rev. Father Mulholland of St. Francis | church, Fair Haven, when interviewed last evening, said "If the facts are such as ex-
 pressed in the COURIER of Monday should most thoroughly endorse it's course in op-
 TO0C CiT1Crt thl 6nTo de nf Ina III
 be very unj just to turn off the men who have faithfully worked for the COURIER for so long
 a time, and especially in the case of old em-
 ployes
 Lawyer Harry Asher said-I think it
 would be very unjust and unfair thing to
 boycott the Courier, as the whole principal
 on which they would do it would be wrong,
 and the people would not uphold them in
 such a thing.
 A prominent member of State street grocery firm said To boycott the COURIER for not discharging their old and faithful workmen at the dictation of @ set of men who want them to be put out in the streets to starve, as they would most of them do, as | they could not get work in a union ofice is wrong and unjust and the people will uphold | the COURIER in their action in this matter. Robert T. Aerwin, the real estate dealer, | said: The demand upon the COURIER is gross | ly unjust. It is perfectly right in defending ! itself.
 MT Watson " Coe said: The COURIER | has perfectly clear course, simply to main | tain the stand it has taken. The demands
 made against it are manifestly unjust. MT. Edwin Ferry said Every man of sound | mind and clear conscience cannot fail to up- hold the CoURIER's position.
 MT. Louis Feldman: The attack upon the COURIER is an just one.
 MT. Delamater, the we'll known black smith, said: The demand upon the COURIER iS hx generally. The CoURIERs course is just Said a prominent professional gentleman: The CoURIER's attitude meets my unquali- fled appreciation. It is sound. It is simply
 withstandi ng uni just and tyrannical demands.
 am teetotally opposed to this sort of dicta- tion and say it as friend to the working
 men. have not advertised in twenty years, my business not requiring it, but if neces- sary hold myself ready to advertise with you at once. Stand firm.
 A State street merchant of note said yes
 terdav: am out of politics and public life.
 But you can say this: I had supposed this
 was free country but it don't look like it when man has to ask the public how he shall spend his money, or what men or set of men he may be permitted to employ.
 This dictation is subversive to the spirit of the free institutions of our government.
 Said prominent Chapel street merchant: Do you want my opinion? I say hurrah for the COURIER. Do you suppose, said he, turn ing to his employees, that would submit to demand from society or set of men to turn out any faithful and devoted employes2 I would never yield to such dictation; I say stick!
 A prominent clergyman said: The CoURIERs position is impregnable because
 just and right. The COURIER proposes to
 stand by it's men, who have served faithfully
 their employers. The position is unquestion-
 ably one that commends itself to all as just
 ~ oEo tho atata
 have taken the JOURNAL AND COURIER away
 back to the time when Atwell published it.
 have two years editions of the COURIER
 bound at my house. I say the COURIER is
 right in it's stand. Stick! If I were a mer-
 chant and a came into my store to
 threaten me if I didn't do so, I would have
 him arrested and locked up That's what I'd do. This attempt to terrorize won't wash with me for cent.
 Said J. M. Grove, a carpenter and an old and esteemed resident: am a workingman and dependent on my business for my bread and butter. I think this attack upon the COURIER 8 rascally piece of business. I want a. much for my labor it deserves and I want it in an honorable way. I say this fearlessly, and whoever don't like it can lump it. l believe in treating every man right, and this spirit should prevail. But the idea of one set of men dictating that an- other set of men shan't have work or bread for their families, if they can prevent it, | is a rascally piece of business, and if I was | able would back it up with money. And l one thing more: If there's any paper that | ought to be squelched it's the so-called Workingmens Advocate.
 Said a well known insurance agent: The CoURIER's position is sound and correct and 1 have heard great many people say so. I hope it will maintain it's position for it is just.
 Said railroad man and we'll known Odd Fellow: The CoURIERs position is right and appeals to every fair-minded man. I believe in worklngmen's rights and that organization properly effected and conducted is right, but such an attack and demand as that upon the COURIER is wholly unsound. There is in the Locomotive Brotherhood one of the best in stitutions of the kind that ever existed. That organization allows it's members to work upon any l road, although side by side with non union | locomotive engineer. At the COURIER office "open" office, where men were employed whether union or non-union. The Knights I of Labor will hurt themselves by sustaining such demands as that made by the Typo graphical union.
 What is the New Haven Typographical uniona said another gentleman. Why, it numbers from fifty to seventy-fve men; and there are about fifty or seventy-five non- union men in the city. The non-union men are equally as good men and in many cases better men than some in the union. Now, what kind of United States, what kind of free country is this when one crowd of men in your town set themselves up to prescribe other men equally as good in many respects and say they shan't have living unless they belong to their society? Here's pretty pass, or, as they say in the "Mikado," "a pretty state of things" in free and star spangled banner country.
 Ex Councilman Lawrence, the coal mer-
 chant, said: The CoUR1ER's position is sound. Stick to it. Its position is right | and just. The CoUR1ER's position is incon- trovsrtible.
 Dr. Cheney said: The demand upon the COURIER is wrong in principle and unjust aid klo.,