St. Landry democrat., 1889-11-09
BoYCottlnp.

! A Charleston, s. c., special to the New
| York Sun says: The war waged by the
| Farmers Alliance in this Siats against the
Jute Bagging Trust now involves several
| issues. The alliance has placed under it's
bal not only the dealers in iute basging,
cut also newspapers. towns and cities.
The Greenville Neacs one of the daily
| papers in this State has been boycotted by
local alliance because the editor wrote
something that did not please the alliance
men, and the city of Gretnville has been
made to suffer a stagnatlon of business.
| The city OF Spsrtanburg has been boy
cotted by the Spartanburg County Alliance
which published the following Whereas
we, the members of the Farmers Alliance,
representing 234 bales of cotton, which
was properly Graded by an experienced
member of the Alliance, and now offered
| for sale in the Spartanburg market yes
terday and to-day, firmly believing from
all we can learn, and from all Indications
that there is deliberate attempt among
the cotton buyers and cotton mills to Grip
pie our order and defeat our co operative
plan of grading and selling our cotton;
therefore be it
Resolved, That we take our cotton off
this market and Sell it in some other d arket
and sell it in some other market, and we
recommend that members of the Alliance
hereafter, as far as possible keep their
cotton away from the Spartanburg market
charleston, the largest city in the State,
has been boycotted by the Butler County
Alliance, where members are forbidden to
send any cotton to Charleston. The alli-
ances have adopted new method of dis
posing of all of it's cotton on given day.
1t gets up procession of cotton wagons
and marches into the nearest town. The
cotton is then offered for sale, and, unless
satisfactory prices are obtained, the pro-
cession returns to the farms, either stor-
ing the cotton or taking it back to the
barns. In many parts of the State the
farmers are holding back their cotton, and
as a consequence, there are complaints of
dull business. The boycott promises to
assume large dimensions, and next year
it may get into the political campaign.
Important Railroad Suit Decided.
Judge Allen has filed in the United
States district court at Springfield, ILL.,, an
i'm portant decision in the litigation, pend
ing for two years, in which the Mobile and
Ohio Railway Company, as lessees OF the
St. Louis ard Cairo, attempted to obtain
right of way down to the waters of the
Ohio river at Cairo, for the transfer of
passengers and freight by boats to their
lines ON the Kentucky side. The contest
was on the constitusionslity of the Illinois
water craft act of 1877, which contains
clause substantially depriving railroad
companies of the power to condemn land
for right of way to any ferry privilege
upon any navigable river bordering on that
STATE. The court finds it unconstitutional
First, because it's title does not set out
this deprivation of condemnation on privl-
leges, and second, because the same clause
acts as comforting special privil ges upon
railroad corporations already having terry
privileges upon such river fronts and ex-
Guiding others from them. In short, the
court finds this portion of the act to be IN
conflict both with the constitution OF the
United States and of the State of Illinois,
and in conclusion says that the other por-
tions of the act, permitting all railroad
companies terminating on navigable rivers
ON the borders of Illinois to increase their
business facilities are useful and proper;
but the provision restricting the use or the
additional franchise to companies ALREADY
owning the land as landing is void. Inc
decision will not only permit the mobile
and Ohio to obtain ferry privilege al
Cairo, but will settle point of much more
in other parts OF Illinois.