Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-10-27
THE UNLAWFULC CAUSE.
SANCTIONED BY THE OHIO VALLEY TRADES
AND LABOR ASSEMBLY
FUw.sd Down BY Our Business Msn-Vain Attsmps
Of he BoyNtsrs at lndnidatNn-Ths PO-
si6on Of the Chamber Of Commerce.

The boycott must die, and now IS the
time to kill it, is the expression heard on
all sides, especially among the business
portion of the community, where 1t Is ut
tered with vehemence. In circulating
around yesterday a number OF instances
were learned Of where business men had
been waited upon by the boycott commit
tee, but refused positively to give them
any satisfaction whatever, or to aeeede to
their unlawful demands in the slightest
degree. and in many instances meeting
their demands with very curt replies. The
demand that men drop their subscriptions
and advertisements from the
morning dailies is booted at and is met
with the response that the dailies are the
only English newspapers in the city and
they propose to govern their W actions
in regard to p~atrOnizing them, as they have
been doing for years past.
Shortly after the present boycott wa
placed on the Wheeling dailies, at meet
ing of the Chamber of Commerce, the situ-
alton was freely discussed, and the general
sentiment was in favor OF holding ar anti
boycott meeting at the Opera House, and
thus publicly expressing condemnation of
the means and methods nsed by
the boycotters to intimidate
and blackmail the community
into aequiescence to their demands. 1t is
probable the time is fast approaching when
this idea will be carried into effect.
Il will not be amiss TO reiterate that
there is no strike on hand rs Ear as the
morning dailieS are concerned. The prin-
tiers came to the conclusion they would not
work any longer at the prices which they
were receiving, and walked out Of the OIL
ces. The prOprietOrs could not afford to
paw what they demanded, and employed
other men to do the work. There are
thousands of skilled mechanics in this
country to-day, and knights Of Labor, too,
who would jump at the chance of earn
ing $3.50 per day, and the printers
on the Wheeling morning papers made
from $3.50 to $3.50 per day,
as has already been fully shown, by actual
figures. What proportion of the working
men of the Ohio Valley command these
wages, and what other class of men have
steady employment from the first day of
one year until the first day of the next?
None. Now they ask youStO assist them
IN attempting to ruin the business
OF the men who have for years
given them the opportunity of supporting
themselves and families in good comfort
able style, and at the same time lay money
aside if they desired.
To show the sentiment of the Chamber
of Commerce in regard to the boycott, the
following resolution, passed at a meetingOn
June 2l. 1856, is reprinted, a number of
business men beingat that time under the
boycott:
Resolrcd. By the Chamber Of Commerce Of
the City0f Wheeling, That we believe the
boycott to be wrong in principle, per-
nicious in practice, and in direct conflict
with American ideas and institutions.
We believe its practice, rs pursued in
most instances, is not only in violation OF
law, but is utterly destructive of that
confidence and respect which should ex-
list between members of the same CON-
munity.
The boycott has been characterized by o
prominent representative of labor as "a
species of blackmail."
There may have been no intention in
many instances to make it such, but the
fact remains that it has been largely used
to crafty personal malice; and that it in
vites directly TO destruction of business
and property, through the meaneSt motives
which inspire men to injure their neigh
bOrs.
We have reason to believe that it has
been so employed in this city, and that it
has worked great injustice to some of our
business men, who, from the force of cir
cumstances, have been unable to comply
with the demands made upon them
without making sacrifices, not only of val
liable business interests, but of honor and
self-respect rs we'll.
We further believe that the boycott will
greatly injure the prosperity of this or any
community in which il may be introduced,
preventing the investment of money and
energy IN manufacturing and commercial
enterprises.
NAGANAAullo lAlu ONLCAS ~ Alih hSASbV
fore been willing to invest their surplus
earnings in manufacturing or other enter
prises, thereby increasing the industries
and population, will not continue to do
so if system is to prevail which exposes
them TO the penalties of q secret and ire
spOnsible tribunal, whose judgments are
entirely er pdrte, and therefore liable to be
both unreasonable and unjust. For rea-
sons already given and for Others of. equal
force which we might assign we feel COM
PEELED to express our earnest cOndemna-
ton of the boycott. At the
same time we desire to express the
hope and desire that those who have here
tofore supported it will carefully examine
their relation to il and be enabled to recOg-
nize the fact that it cannOt be permanent
OF eflectual remedy for any evils which
may exist; that il tends to revolution, de-
struction and alienation, and not to order,
prosperity and harmony; that while 1T
may for q time seriously injure those ut
whom it is directed, it will in the end in
lure far more those who support and en-
courage it. We respectfully, kindly, but
most earnestly urge an exhaustive use of
the arts of peace before reSorting to the ,
bitterness and waste of war.
The Fortune o 1.-Two Cuban Merchants.
Wednesday last Senior Eduardo Marquee
del Pine and Senior LazOro Villa, two Gu
ban gentlemen. residents Of New York,
where they are engaged in the tobacco
business at No. 322 East Thirteenth street,
met n PicdyHRer reporter. The object which
brought these visitors 10 New Orleans was
the collection of the sun of $40, 900 from
The louisiana State Lottery Company, to
which they were entitled by virtue Of
holding one-half OF Ticket No. 72,4S9, |
which drew, Sept. II, the Third Capital
Prize of S20,O O0. New Orleans LA.
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