Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-11-09
THE BOYCOTTERS.
THE COMMITTEE PUTS IN THE DAY IN
BULLDOZING BUSINESS MEN.
They Meet With Very Poor Encouragement From the
People They Are Annoying Nice Dc
cupa6On For a Man 10 Engage In.

The committee representing the per-
nicious boycotting practice were making
another feeble attempt to intimidate cru
zens yesterday. Their rounds were con-
fined principally among the merchants on
Market and Main streets, whom they
would insult in the peaceful transaction OF
their business with demands and threats.
The cheek of thesel people knows no
bounds. They enter q store and tell the
proprietor that thus and so must be done
within a certain day or else they Will put
ON the boycott-that is, shut up his shop,
store or factory as the case may De, anu
all because, forsooth, he won't buy where
thew dictate, The next demand we shall
hear of will be that you must
not hire such physician because
he has encountered the enmlty oil
the boycotters; or your place and mode Oh
worship, and the pastor who ministers 10
your spiritual wants, have all fallen INTO
bad odor with the boycotters, and you
must cast about you for another place OF
worship and another pastor that are not
under the ban of these professional LABOR
agitators, who work with their chlns In
stead of their hands, and make the real
worker pay them roundly for it.
For shame that there are people call
ing themselves American citizens IN this
community, who have no more sense OF
Justice and individual right than TO be
guilty of such unlawful acts. Do they
suppose that because this community does
not rise ND in arms against their unlawful
interference with others rights, that II
does not condemn them? Not blt
of it. Our people are a peaceable. law
abiding community, who are opposed to
strife andIturmoil with their neighbors and
wish to be let alone in their several walks
of life. They are not responsible for the
printers strike, nor do they propose TO be
made so, and the lawless gang who try to
make them so and attempt to visit their
cutthroat vengeance upon them, are pre-
pairing o weapon that will smite the az
gressors. Our advice to these men IS to
attend to their own business and let Others
attend to theirs, otherwise they will pre-
pare trap that will cause them great
trouble.
Just here we will quote from the Balti-
more Sun late decision of Judge Bond,
which may open the eyes of these law
breakers:
THE law as it applies to the boycott has
been very strongly and clearly defined by
Judge Bond, of the United States Court,
at Baltimore. In issuing an injunction
restraining number of men from using the
boycott, Judge Bond went so far rs to de-
clare that any effort by advice or request
to influence persons against mans 0usl-
ness, even though such efforts were con-
fined to the membership of trades union,
was conspiracy and crime. This de-
cision leaves nothing whatever for the
boycott to stand on, and those who en-
ploy this instrument of oppression hence
forth, cannot plead Ignorance of the law to
Justify their action"
Some of the experiences OF the boycott
committee of four which took in the bust
ness part of the ciey yesterday were of a
nature not to be forgotten in abhurry by
the quartette of misguided individuals
composing it. In one place the committee
waited upon lady and made their de-
mandS, expecting that she would quail
before them and accedc to their modest
edict. They were mistaken. The lady
listened to the spokesman until he had
finished his little piece, and then
she freed her mind in n manner which
caused the four to stink from the store in
most humiliating manner. In other
places visited, the emisaries were treated
with very scant courtesy, proprictors of
business houses, in more than one in
stance, stating very pointedly that they
felt fully competent 10 attend to their own
affairs, and that they were tired of being
annoyed by people who had no real cause
for complaint.
Business men should remember, as a
preliminary to listening to any demand
from this committee, to require full
statement from it in writing, signed by
the names of the committee, with the or
ganization they claim to represent This
is rs little rs can be done by any indiyid-
nal or combination of individuals who set
out to dictate to man whom he shall
deal with and how he shall conduct his
own affairs, and until the committee com
plies with the request no attention should
be paid TO it.