Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-13
wHArPEOPLE SAY.

Rovcott of the ssCourier,, UnpOpu. l lar and Universally DenOunced-The Cause of Labor PrOstituted to Serve | An Unjust Cause.-The Public Stand | By the ssCourier'' in the Matter and Characterize the Boycott as Com temptibIe-The People Will Sit Down Upon It-The Knights of Labor Man. Ifesting Little Interest in Injustice The Last Ditch.
 The feeling about town regarding the at tempt of the Typographical union to boycott the COURIER is one of indignation. On every corner, in every store, everywhere the boycott was denounced as an outrageous, mean and disgraceful attack upon mems constitutional rights and the plain and recog- nized rights of employers.
 The boycott of the COURIER, said weN known citizen, is decidedly an unpopular boycott in this town, and the Knights of Labor themselves don't take any interest in it. They are satisfied with a mans paying the highest wages; they don't, like the Typo graphical union, have the cheek to want the earth From actual interviews with differ ent persons the following is eulled:
 Said prominent clergyman: This boy cotting is blow against personal liberty and
 
 by the constitution of this republic. Boy cotting is a weapon which strikes at the cor ner stone of liberty. Why, if a set of men succeed in forcing newspaper office to dis charge it's compositors and humbly allow the rascals who drive the men from their places to step in and take their places, why it is little short of highway robbery, and if Typographical union can force non-union men out of work and appropriate their places to themselves, the next step they will have cheek enough to attempt will be to dictate the editorial pol icy of the paper. The public will see that this is just conclusion. We read only the other day of demand from the union upon newspaper that it's editorial policy should be so and so or boycott would follow. And this is free country. What becomes of our boasted freedom of the press in such case.
 Said another citizen: The Typographical union may sheer through it's Workingmen's Advocate, which one of the head Knights of Labor of New Haven said in our presence was a paper which the New Haven Knights took no stock in, and which they considered "a gutter snipe," but the principle is just here This dictation of the sort proposed by the Typographical union is intolerable in a free country and will not be submitted to.
 Said prominent manufacturer: It is for the interest of every business man, every merchant, every manufacturer and for every thinking workingman to support the CoUR- FER in the stand it has taken. If labor is wronged the spirit of justice in this country and the spirit of Christianity will right it and a just arbitration will right it. But leeds of blood and violence will not do it. Here in New Haven, for instance! Have we any glaring case of injustice to workingmanE Have we any class that is wronged? If so, let the case be arbitrated upon. But how do strikes operate? You slap man in the face and tbaD him to lend vo.I S5 Wou16 you get its Suppose the laboring man puts himself in the employers place? How would he like it to have his employees strike and quit work in the busiest times. Would he not feel that he was treated much bet ter to receive fair request from not hear such request with difference and attention? He would if a fair and square man, and would grant it too if in his power. It would be to an employers interest to keep faithful men whom he has long had in his employ and he would squeeze point even if he could hardly afford it, to make his men satisfied. I tell you what it is, here in New Haven our manufacturers' lives are spent in the same town with their men. They meet them on the street; they go, per haps, to the same church. In many cases they trade at the same stores. Now there is no despotic power exercised by manufac- turers in New Haven such as is complained of out West. The only despotic power I know of is the despotic power aimed at by the Typographical union, and if it is not despotism for one set of men to attempt to drive out another set of men from their work and unsurp their places then there is no such thing as despotic power. The principle involved IS all wrong and every man with the spirit of the star spangled banner in him will stamp his foot on it as he would upon d snake.
 Said man employing 35 men: have only three union men in my employ. l never made any distinction in hiring man. hired union men or non-1nion men just as it happened. Now that's just where the COURIER stood until this unjust and despotic demand was made upon it. Now do you suppose would obey an edict from any such despotic union to discharge any non-union men, turn them into the street and put the ths man or committee that came to me with such demand would find him. self getting out of my office at 2:40 gait. The COURIER emphatically is right. This is free country and the principle involved in your resistance to the unjust demand com mends itself to all the people.
 Said prominent merchant: If any walk ing delegate of the Typographical union comes in to see me I shall make short work of it. He will get my opinion in mighty short order. am down on the boycotting of the COURIER like thousand of brick. It is as Spoopendyke used to say, dod-gasted measly piece of business.
 Said an old gentleman: If this thing keeps on we shall all want to know whether we have got any rights that anybody is bound to respect. If 8 man can't say whom he shall have to work for him and if set of men shall be allowed to trample on the right of an employer to select his own men we might as well sell out.
 Said prominent clergyman: The boycott is tyranny like the tyranny of Russia. The COURIER will be supported against the boy colt made upon it.
 Said prominent man: heartily advocate the forming of 8 syndicate of business men to help the COURIER fight the boycott upon it, should it want it.
 Said another gentleman: The right of the COURIER in the case is unquestionable and the whole town is with the COURIER in it's fight. Hurrah for the COURIER. The mer- chants are sick and tired of being dictated to by walking delegate. They don't recognize the right of any man or set of men to tell them what they shall or shall not do in their business.
 Said scores of people: We consider that the trade of seventy thousand people is worth as much to merchants as the trade of the Typographical union or the Cigarmakers' union. The boycott of the COURIER is a mean and despicable operation and is using the Knights of Labor for cats paw to pull the Typographical union chestnuts out of the fire. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, ye Cigarmakers' union.
 Said 8 prominent business man: It is all a hair of the same dog. If they boycott the COURIER to-day they will boycott us to nor row and boycott women and children next. These men are cranks. They want the earth. They will by and by want to dictate what style of bonnet woman shall wear That's where they will meet their last ditch.
 Personal.
 MT. c. s. Roberts and wife, formerly of New Haven, have gone to New York to re- side.
 A Pleasant Surprise.
 For over four years Mrs. Wealthy S. Foote has kept restaurant at No. 7. City Market, and has been held in high esteem by the oth- CT stall keepers in the market, and on Satur- day evening they waited on her and present ed her with handsome Eastern Star pin, )