Show r THE BOYCOTT IN AMERICAN HIS HISTORY HISTORY HISTORY TORY New York Call Senator Spooner Presidents and Eliot to say nay all nothing of oC Post Par Parry Part I ry t 1 and Van ran Cleave and other othor gentle gentlemen men who wax eloquent or hysterical I in denouncing the boycott as hostile to tn the spirit of American Institutions presume to lo forgot the American his history tory tors tor they the must havo ha learned In gram grammar grammar grammar mar mar school If IC not at their mothers knees In fact ono one of or tho the most striking ing lag episodes epli of the tho early earls earh struggle for American Independence took the tho form Corm of a boycott a boycott which directly affected Innocent persons in order that through them It might strike and In Injure injure jure tho the real enemy enema a boycott it may be he added which involved coercion of the Uw disinterested public and was wa even een accompanied by physical vie vio violence hence lence When tho the British government re resolved resolved solved to mako the American colonists contribute to tho th public revenues by imposing a slight tax ta upon tea and certain tain tam other articles Imported into luto Amer America AmerIca ica lea and yet et t refused to allow the col colonists colonists colonists tho the right of representation and I which they the desired deal rod tho the advocates of independence who wore were then but a n minority of the population population population lation but bitt a very ven active and efficient minority as well well as a n growing one did dl not confine themselves to passive resistance or moral mora suasion They Ther The did not nol at once appeal to arms arnie because they the knew lenew they ther had not yet r t the strength to make such Buch an appeal sue site I COSsell and nud because they believed j I their purpose might bo be accomplished a j without actual Insurrection I I TIm The word boycott was then un nfl unknown j known But the tiling thing by b whatever name It might bo be called callad suggested It Itself itself itself I self to the tho patriots as the best means menns to defeat the tie government either cither by b the home homo government to surrender its pretensions to tax the colonists with without without out granting gran ling them representation or else by provoking it to more drastic measures m which would incite tho the masses of oC the tho colonial population to demand and work and fight for nation national al a Independence Without any sanction of law nay In plain defiance of tho the law they or organized societies whose members wore ore pledged not to buy uy a n pound of oC ten tea or oran any an other article upon which duty dut had been paid They The carried ou on a vigor vigorous vigorous vigorous ous agitation to extend the member ember n shIp of thoe societies and anti enforce their pledge They did dl not stop with this They ille branded every ever man or woman who refused to accept tho the pledge and boycott bocott ar articles articles tides as an nemy of oC freedom anti anil a traitor to colonial Interests They The made Ute the name loyalist as odious as scab or has ever since become Thoy The ostracised those who bought goods ro io fused to trade with them to give she them em om employment to maintain social lampoons against them th m mocked and an Insulted thorn thom in public meetings In the streets even een In tho the churches and andall by byall byall all means sought to compel those these Whom they could not persuade do to lo join I In the tho boycott j I In a double sense Bense this policy worked injury to others than the British gov goi government go against which It was directly aimed In BO no far as It succeeded In cutting off the sales of oC tea toa and other dutiable articles It caused heavy loss I i ito to British and American merchants I who had In the Ute ordinary course ot or i their legitimate business bought such i goods and Imported them and paid the I Iut j duty ut on thorn thom as required by b law On I a still larger scale scalo did boycott Injure vast numbers of or colonists who cared nothing about independence or who did not mind paying parIng a afew fow few pence a year ear In taxes and only wanted to be he let alone to live their lives lIos In their own way wa without mod med meddling dung In politics or being meddled with by politicians These were against their own will forced to take sides and either to share share the hardships and help bear the burdens of the struggle for independence or else to endure persecution at al the hands of or the active patriots Nor did tho the boycotters stop oven even here hero On more than one occasion they the resorted to Intimidation or violence against revenue officers against mOI I chants who submitted su to the Impost tion of lutos or against citizens who sympathized with the government One ne particular riot committed by h j i I those these boycotters has line been heen immortal immortalIzed Imn immortalized ortal I Izod In our school histories and In pa patriotic I song and story stor and amid has been I I I held up before us In iu our childhood i I days as a D splendid example of civic virtue on tho the part of our Puritan fore forefathers forefathers forefathers I fathers under the name of the Boston I Tea Party We Wre would only remind tho eminent j I gentlemen who now discuss tho the labor I II question and declaim against the boy boycott bo colt cott as being inhuman cruel and cow cowardly cowardly cowardly ardly and we know not what else that they tho arc are treading on dangerous ground that if the Is to he be condemned many man of the I brightest namOi in our natural luster History will have havo to be blackened along with ith those of the labor unionists of today Experience keeps a dear school but fools will learn in no other They Tile Tho that wont be bo counseled cannot bo be helped Benjamin Franklin We Wo mt ma may add also that they deprive many maul man others of ot the help they thoy so great greatly ly Iy need I speak a good word worth for our friends in instead instead stead of advertising our enemies or orcen even cen those who are un unfair unfair unfair fair to us So while we have nave been beon imposed upon and Injured to a de degree degree degree gree by b these theae adverse decisions and anti had taken from us UH as CUI we thought one of o our au I strongest weapons of or dc tic fonse fonso onse yet el that very 01 evil which was wa Intended fOt for us tie will reflect back upon the tho other othor fellow Being thus deprive I of one powerful weapon wo have havo found a greater one in telling tho the gen general I eral cral public who are our friends and from whom they tIle can get union labor and whore here they can secure union mado made goods goads The carpenters are arc the first to submit n Li 1 list of o friends and by b calling upon any of at the following you OU can milling work bearing the union stamp clamp or building doc done by br union labor C J Gpo Geo Fleeman Feeman Construction Co Jo I Building Co Newton 8 Burnham C J Dinsmore Ogdon Ogden Plan Ing Mill Co Koch King Smith and Poter Peter Venada By B patronizing these firms you pat patronize patronize the most skilled and best pall pail labor In lii our city Now who will wI bo be the next to sub mit a n list Dont forgot the Carpenters grand ball bali all on January 27 at the Royal Roa Dane ing lag academy Thoy TIle need the tho money So dont lont forgot A splendid time lime Is always assured when the wood butch butchers butchers ers ore are ure at the thc wheel The Tho legislative committee of the tho Utah State Federation of oC Labor Jabor heIr heIrn a n meeting last Tuesday In Salt Lake Lak City at which ways and moans means discussed looking to the tho Introduction of o several sovera bills in the present legisla ture turo It will Ill bo be no trouble to do so for fOI there are several senators antI and an rop rep who are aro willing to help us but It will be bo useless to do so unless some somo one Is there thero to go before committees and md explain why wo we walt wait these measures passed etc otc This re rc requires quires some more money mono than we havi ha haon havion on hand at this his time and unless tho the I Y unIons remit their per por pe capita I tax Immediately the committee may mn fall fail to what they hmo have I set out to do It takes some money mono to do things and If I you OU brothers do donot I not take talce enough Interest In this mot mat tor tOl to furnish the funds you Oll no cl not expect the committee to do much macIt You will bo be 1 0 the great losers Come Como now get gel busy This has been too long delayed already |