New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-04-05
TIE CHEESE BOYCOTT.


Not long ago We had occasion 10 comment
upon and commend the action Of an association
Of clcrgymcn in Western town. who having
gathered. at a banquet. suddenly discovered
Spanish onions as one Of the side dishes on the
menu Being animated by an earnest desire to
free Cuba, and as they were too far from the
coast TO proceed in n body AT once TO the island
for that purpose. they SEIZED the opportunity 10
give expression to their incrad,cablc hostility TO
the Spanish Government by unanimously order
ing the Spanish onions 10 be speedily and igno-
mlniously withdrawn from the bill. II was
good thing to do. II does not appear as yet 10
have had any serious effect upon Spain but
there can he no doubt that the refusal 10 in
dulge in Spanish onions promoted better feel
Ing. IL it did not kIndle lively sense OF graft
tudc in the bosoms of persons who came in close
relations with the banquctcrs after the banquet
WAS over The boycott as a weapon Of war is
not always effective, but this WAS case in
which il wholesome TO sag the least.
And now it IS understood that the hotel pro-
pretors of this State, fired with emulation Of
so noble an example. have highly resolved. in
defence Of their right 10 sell liquor on sun
days, which Is nfrngcd by the new Excise law
passed by dalrymcn and farmers TO boycott the
WcllknOWil ana MlncTtD lOp'llIT tItf>c ol l'4c
Interior 1t Is estimated that something like
100000 pounds OF cheese are produced annu-
ally in this State n large part OF which comes
from Oneida County. where the party rcspon
sible for the Raincs law had at the las, election
almost $500 majority. determined boycott Of
upthc-State cheese by the hotel propric,ors
would set the cow-and-callm milk crcam-bulter
and -cheesc-r raising district upon train Of pro-
..H. And 10
there any doub, that when these fanatical
dairynen. who have been carried away by
the notion that should not be sold
on Sunday any more than milk, butter or
cheese, see their market gone, and their
very cows standing before them with dis
tended uddcrs, mute petitioners for rel!ef-is
there any doubt that when this crisis comes
the dairymcn will rclcnt and say with one ne
cord: "Oh, sell your rum. Sell 1t tweniyfour
'hours day, every day in the week. all the year
round; only take your boycott OFF our cheese:
| The resolution TO boycott cheese seems almost
| an inspiration "No Sunday rum? Then no
| cheese" Could there be more effective war
| cry? 1t must certainly bring the darymen to
| their senses.
Meantime there must OF necessity be trouble
up the State especially in Oneida County.
| mould and multtudcs Of large and attractive
/ checses now kept in stock and stored away will
| become the prey Of the maraudins and v0racons
skipper. Shippers grown fat and saucy on I'M
| marketed and unmarkctable cheese Will for IA
| time ovcrrun the highways and dcvastatc the
| fields. With less elasticity Of limb than the
| grasshOppcr, he will be more destructive since
| he will get closer 10 the ground and be more
| exhaustive in his consuming processes II will
| take thousands OF tons Of fertilizers and ages
| Of rccuperaton 10 make good his inroads upon
| the now fertile and productive soil Of Oneida
| County. At the height Of the boycott 1t will not
| be strange II the cheese skipper Of Oneida Corn-
| ty craws In large numbers into the Utica rail-
road station and holds up the Empire State
| Express for ransom Then Chaunccy Depcw
| will be hit In the neck and unless he can switch
them off with OratOry the panic will be mniver-
sal Nor will II do to say, by way Of laughing
| of this calamtous outlook, as Mr. Lincoln y
| friend did when told there were shippers In the
| cheese. II can stand II as long as they can"
| For these Will be boycott shippers that mean
| business. and they will be for the time outside
| the cheese. Men may consume shippers with
| cheese. In; as a side dish without cheese. never.
! The cheese boycott Is a desperate remedy de-