Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-03-21

tyranny All tyranny seeks to maintaii
itself by coercion and this trade aud in
dustrIal tyranny throughout Texas ha'
been utilizing the boycott as It's chosei
weapon until there has been created al
/ absolute terrorism shameful TO manhood
The situation in many communities II
! this state has been, and probably Is Z
some extent now, trade and industrial
repetition of the French revolution. tn,
slightest expressions Of free speech have
been threatened with the boycott; sinai
traders have bowed to the terrorism a!
suppllant slaves to an enthroned mon
arch, and even large dealers have mad,
no protest through fear.
The boycott had become.as terrible al
the guillotine and men followed leader
ship In its use because, like the victims
OF il, they feared to protest or resist
Men without identity Of interest with the
people fed on the diet of popular COW.
ardlce and set up as dIctators of agri-
cultural, labor aud trade opinion On
the surface OF daily life has been
free speech, personal liberty, right
and justice; below It has been
tyranny, trade cowardlce and an abjeci
terrorism. The shoeless directors Of the
guillotne in Paris have had their coun
terparts in cities of state governed by
constitutional guarantees OF freedom anC
protection. The conservative leaders OF
a great labor organization have endeav
ored TO check the spirit Of tyranny by con
stitutional safeguards against the unwar.
ranted use OF the power Of the boycott,
but the great mass Of the people have
seen this constitutional inhibition vio-
lated, and it mattered not to them what
the conservative would do or tried to do
so long as they lived in trembling at the
flippant threatenings Of the irresponsible.
The consequence has been that the nat
ural resistance Of the people to this
weapon OF tyranny has found free express
sion at the slightest encouragement, and
Ii may safely be said that the end has
come. Power abused has led to the de-
thronement of power, and, practically,
the boycott has been hurled from its
throne, for should il again assume to IN
wade personal rights the people Will meet
1t by organization and, either through
law or anti boycott associations, banlsh.lt
to lands OF governmental despotism where
alone it should find Judgment and use.
The result was inevitable. The American
people are patient; all liberty peo-
pie are and should be patient. Long
years were needed to prepare for the ex-
tirpation of human slavery in this coun-
try Radicalism, by force of sentimental
gratitude, fought right and justice for
sixteen years, but it fell before the con-
servatism of the popular will. The boy
colt, which stopped not at trade aud in
dustrial tyranny, but invaded even the
political rights Of men, as shown in THE
Houston special of yesterday
should not have even hoped to
long find resting place among people
by constitution founded on
the personal liberty of the citizen.
The boycott will go, and those who
think differently and attempt to resist its
departure will find that they have sadly
mistaken the temper of people who hold
and political liberty as the very
of their own rights. Local
conditions may, here and there, encour-
age convulsive existence of the boycott,
but practically it is dead, because fear of
it Is dead; and the more 1t resists It's
own funeral the sooner will it be buried
out of sight forever, for, now that the
popular voice has begun to condemn IL,
the public will lind speedy means for its
eXtinguishment. Those who hope to
profit by It's further use should carefully
read public opinion, and even boycotlers
themselves will yet bless the day that it
was banished from American methods.