Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-11-12
MEETING THE BOYCOTT.

The boyeotters' ultimatum fell back on
them with "dull sickening thud. moon
came yesterday and the citizens Of Wheel
ing were still persisting in conducting
their business without submitting tothe
dictates of the boycott committee. The
boycotters perhaps felt like the ancient
fly that wondered how the OK could stand
under its weight.
But the bOycotters will still persist in
their attempts to make citizens follow
their dictates, il people are not on their
guard The boycOtters have made every
effort they could tothoroughly organize TOR
their despicable work, And it is well
known that small number well organized
can Overcome "a much larger number Of
men who are entirely without organization.
The insignificant minority we'll organized,
can often rule the unOTglniZed majority.
So from time to time may our citizens, II
without any organization or understanding
among themselves, be set upon singly by
the boycott gang when they
least expect and their business placed in
jeopardy.
As the boycOtters are thoroughly organ
lied for war upon our citizens, and are de-
termined to have war to the knife, IL Is
certainly the citizens duty to themselves
and the community TO act in self defense
To most etfectually do thisthey should be
organized against the enemy that is max
ing war on them, OF should at least have n
mutual understanding that they will stand
by one another. As every thinking man
must admit Wheeling's prosperity will be
greatly retarded Is long rs men can not
feel safe in investing their
money in business and industrial enter
pr,ses through fear of being attacked by
the boycott. Capital seeking investment
will seek other fields and much Of that
already here will in time be withdrawn If
the boycott is allowed to rule and ruin.
No citizen who cares anything for the good
of the city should permit himself to lend
one iOta Of encouragement TO this mis-
shapen forerunner of Anarchy. We venture
the assertion that there is not an intelli-
gent business man in the city who fayOrs
the boycott, But some may yield through
fear or may try to take neutral ground and
leave others to bear the front of the fight.
All this encourages the boycott gang, and
rs this fight is one that concerns the welfare
of all, our citizens should see
to it that no one encourages the boycott
by throwing his own fight upon the Shout
ders of his neighbOrs. So far, the citizens
though unorganized, have presented an
impregnable front to the boycott Let
them continue to do this and tOstrengthen
those who are given to fear, and to insist
that no citizen shirk his own burden, and
the boycott will be rs POwerleSs in the flu
ture as it has been in the past month.
Nov some may say that We give utter
ance to these sentiments because the
fight is waged against US. That is truth,
but not all of the truth. While it is our
fight, it is the fight of every citizen who
has the good of the city at heart. 1t is
our wish, As it is the wish of every good
citizen, that our city shall become prosper
GUS and great, and that everything that
would retard its growth or seek to deprive
citizens of their manhood or their means
of making an honest living, should be for
ever crushed out. While we all recOg-
ME that the small minority who are
making war on the majority have rights,
the majority have the same God given
that they have. 1t is as much to the IN
terests of every citizen of the community
as il is to us, to have it plainly understood
that this region is in the land where AL
men are created free and equal", and that
the rights of every man must be respected
no matter whether he belongs to an organ
ization or not. That is what we are tight
ing for and it is the peoples fight as much
as il is ours.