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Show BOYCOTTING. THE HOME SENTINEL. ri - - - MAXTI, There Are Two Kinds The rect, and the Indirect. BUsIIED AT UTAH. reported to have Addressed the president as my dear young man. senator IIeakst is President Carter, of Williams col- with lege, has returned from the south restored health. Ur. Dexter, of The Congregation-alis- has given $1,000 to the fund of Yale college. t, Ioolscy not only a rigid is the best storyhe but Presbyterian, teller on the supreme bench. Justice IIhrlax is credited with the ambition to represent the Mississippi shoestring district in congress. Bri ce B. K. is it is said, has been ofa fered $ 5,000 year to act as counsel for John W. Mackay. the millionaire Frank Herd, miner. The duke of Newcastle will leave England early in July on a lengthened tour through the United States and Canada. Mrs. Tvlkh, the widow of Tyler, has left the capital, and is now living with her only daughter, Mrs. Ellis, in Montgomery county, Vir- - ginia. The Rev. Dr. Goodwin, bishop of Carlisle, England, will spend this week at Cambridge, Mass, and will sail for home on May -- . The French government has just conferred upon Gen. Salomon, the president of the republic of Ilayti, the grand cross of the Legion of Honor. Kkn'na, of West Virginia is an excellent shot, .and keeps a tine pack of deerhounds and beagles. In one day bo recently brought down nine deer. Senator Gf.okoe W. Carleton, whose name for more than a quarter of a century with American has been identified books an authors, has retired from 1 business. Mrs. Garfield has promised one of her friends in Washington to make a brief visit there, although she has said she would never set foot in tho (to her) hated city again. Mr. G. A. Sala lias returned to England. He looks in good health, but, owing to a fever which he contracted in India, lie is so thin that iiis oldest friends hardly recognized him at first. Since the death of Gen. Hunter his wife has been in such feeble health that she lias rarely left her room or seen any of her old friends. She does not expect to leave Washington during tho Di- Le The Former, Tolerated by Societj-TLaw. Latter, Unknown to the Most persons who mix much with other a people have sometimes found disposition to regard the process commonly as a powerful known as 'boycotting of organized labut legitimate engine social analogies which aro bor. The cited in support of its legitimacy are familiar to every one. It is an open secret that many of our sects habitually their boycott tradesmen who are not of of class of one The creed. boycotting is others all or another by society by soof about as old as the organization ciety into classes. However or immoral these cases of boycottmav be, or may become, it is pracing tically impossible to frame a legal against them, to specify any workable method by which organized society can get a hold upon them and put a stop to them. It is therefore argued, and often very plausibly argued, that boycotting, since it is a thing hicli society cannot reach, is a tiling to which insociety must yield; that he who is moral the arguments tractably dull to no further against boycotting is under or legal obligations to refrain from using it to any extent. That the analogies indicated may not faircarry a force to which they are notdistinly entitled, it may be well to differguish ciearlv between two very ent kinds of boycotting, for which the names direct and indirect boycotting dimight be employed. The former, rect boycotting, consists in the exercise of the boycotter of his right of choice of the persons, (inns or corporations with which lie shall deal. The reasons which induce him to choose one and reject otliers may be unfounded, or even distinctly immoral; but the exercise of the right of choice is an act with which society would iind it hard to interfere without tho implication of almost intolerable evils. Society lias therefore let this variety of boycotting alone. The latter, for which the name of indirect boycotting is suggested, consists in the effort by the boycetter to prevent other people from exercising their right of choice of persons, iirms, or corporations with which they shall deal. When a labor or other organization decides not to purchase a particular kind of stoves, it is exercising its right of choice between makers; and. whether the antecedent reasons be good or bad, society can liardlv reach the overt act of direct boycotting. When a labor or other organization goes further, and threatens or attempts to boycott ail who sell or buy the stoves in question, it denies to third parties the very right of choice on which it insists for itself. If society cannot reach and suppress this form, indirect boycotting, then the neutral third parties are denied the equal protection of the laws; and class government, in its most odious form, takes the place of the equal rights on which our system of society has been vv based. soon as the distinction is clearly apprehended, it must be evident that every precedent which lias been offered in defense of the new sytem of boy.As cotting, evolved during the past eighteen months, is altogether irrelevant. According to The Washington Capi- The precedents offered aro all cases of tal Baron Zodurek, the new secretary direct boycotting, which society- lias of the German legation, plays so tolerated, not because it approved them, because it would have cost more to the violin on the birds that very sweetly them than the suppression would come and hop around him in have been worth. The system which it is dresses. sought to establish on these precedifferent one, one dents is a Postmaster General Vilas lias ap- which societyquite cannot tolerate without pointed lion. D. T. Patterson, a surrendering its own reason for existof Johnson, who was ence. To establish the proposition that so. formerly n member of the United States and government must suppress senate, postmaster at Home, Green piety tho new form of boycotting, or abancounty, Tenn. The oillee pays $140 don the functions of society as we have per year. known them, it is only necessary to consider the essential nature of indirect According to a French newspaper boycotting. In the tirst place, its naan old e for the stereoscope lias been ture is to spread. Let the case be that revived. A 100 franc note, suspected a newspaper is boycotted. Under the to be forged, was submitted to the ex- old system, the results are limited; certain persons no longer buy the newspapperts of the Bank of France for their er or advertise in it, and that is all." opinion. A close examination was Under the new system, it becomes necesmade, but no difference between the sary to boycott all the nexvs.stands suspected note and a genuine one could which deal in the newspapers; then all bo discovered. Some one then sug- those who patronize such hotels, or gested that, the two notes should be who deal with their lodgers; and so on ad infinitum. Once grant the principle placed side by side in a stereoscope, of the indirect boycott, and no limitawhen it was found that the loop of one tion is possible except the number of of tho letters in the supposed false note the boycotters. Any social struggle, o did not exactly cover that of the once begun, must bi'moro or less 'genone, showing that they had not eral. In the second place, there is no longbeen print'd from the same plate. er any neutrality possible for uninterested or disposed third classThe name of Norwegium has been es. Theypeaceably must take part with the boygiven to the interesting new metal dis- cotted. by dealing with him. or with the covered by Dahll some time ago, while boycotters, bv refusing to deal with the he was examining a specimen of nickel-or- e boycotted. The boycotter thus becomes from lvragero, in Norway. This the intestine enemy of society and its peace. The closet analogy is the case addition to the now rapidly growing of the first in the internalist of elements is a malleable metal ol tional societyNapoleon of Europe durinf the white color, with a tint of brown, and early years of this century-lli conpresents, when pure, a metallic luster, sistent policy was that of the indirect but on exposure to the atmosphere boycott. As he could not reach Englie held every people an enemy becomes coated with a thin film of oxide; land, unless it took part with him against its hardness is about that of copper, England. In the end, the organized its specific gravity is nearly M, and it international society of Europe 'was remelts at 3 degrees centigrade. From ally compelled to' boycott him. The its physical properties and chemical re- analogy will be complete in our case action it appears soto differ from every when capital organizes and makes use of the other known metal as to give it a dis- bor is indirect boycott as organized ladoing. The lot of ihe'iminteres- tinct individuality. sup-pre.- -s low-neek- sou-inla- w u-- gen-uin- , ted individual citizen will then be at unenviable one. In the third place, the organization which succeeds in maintaining this necright of indirect boycotting must acenormous simple by essarily grow cretion. A small class can make even an indirect boycott cover but a small to territory. It is naturally impelled join a larger organization, through which it can reach a wider jurisdiction. This impulse is universal; and the sudden and startlidg increase of the Knights of Labor organization is the result. The larger it grows, the join stronger is the impelling force to over it. The greater also is its power the social organism; and it tends to become a power within the state greater than the state itself. If this were all, it might be worth while to consider the betquestion whether it would not be ter that the Ixnights of Labor should assume the responsibilities as well as the powers of government, and make other classes contented subjects, il they can no longer be equal American citizens. But the case cannot stop here. The the organization which now wields unis indirect of boycott power great known to tho law. There is nothing oi it a monopoly to give to or prevent the power, new and ambitious men from forming with other organizations in competition it. Nota month of the year 1886 has form such passed without an attempt to tune must a rival organization; and the come when the attempt must be successful. The new organization, however subsidiary or friendly at first to the original organization, must come into collision with it at last. Even a total surrender to the indirect boycott would not save society from the effects of it at the hands of rival labor organizations, The war is one ill which neutrality is impossible, and even surrender is useless. The indirect boycott, then, is a private wrong, in that it strikes at the right of private security, which the state is bound tomaintain for the individual citizen. Its plainest aspect is when it is threatened or employed for the purpose of extorting money, under the guise of lines or otherwise. The acttol-is a conspiracy which law would not erate in any person not a representative of a labor organization. Other individuals are not allowed to collect their debts or to enforce their contracts in that fashion. It is also a public wrong, for it strikes at the functions and existence of the state itself. The plainest aspects of this pointis are in two the prorecent propositions. One of tho of policemen organization posed our cities into branches of the Knights of Labor. The guardians of the public peace would then owe allegiance not to the state, but to the imperinm in imjierio. The other is the proposed boycotting of the militia of a State, of individuals who do not leave the militia organizations, and of individuals who refuse to boycott members of tho militia. This rises beyond conspiracy into the field of treason. But it is the logical result of an admission of the principle of indirect boycotting. The inevitable tendency to social disintegration is already shown by the increasing disposition to make use of tho boycott as a remedy for the real or imaginary grievances of all sorts of combinations and classes of indivuals. The tendency Is increased by the practical license which the organzation of the Knights of Labor allows to its branches. If a branch of the order makes use of the boycott, in the shape of a causeless strike against an uninterested third party or otherwise, the boycott continues until it is removed by the branch which applied it. or until the boycotted party accepts the mediation of the managing committee of the whole order. The order is a federation whose principle is one of large local sovereignlocal boycotts, the ty. In these branches are thus the wicked partners, who take the the responsibility of the act; the commanaging mittee is the factor whose moderation recommends the system to those who do not perceive its real nature. Let us understand the tiling clearly, its nature, and its results. The new system, in any of its forms of combination to injure the business or assail the rights of uninterested third parties, is one which the state must deal with or die; its refusal to exercise its essential function of the protection of the individual would be merely a relegation of that function to new combinations of the assailed individuals. By making the alternative one of social peace or social warfare, labor succeeds only in forcing into consideration a question before which even its claims to recognition and substantial justice must retire for the time. The single question which is pressed upon the American people is whether they will permit a power to be exercised by one class of American citizens which must deprive other classes of their rights, or compel them to organize and overthrow similarly in social order in the inevitable conflict. The only admissible answer to the question would seem to be the decision of the state to adhere to its fundamental principle, to deal with individuals only, and to resist combinations whose object is to nsurpor to nullify the states functions of punishing or protecting the individual citizen. The Century Maga- - DETACHED THOUGHTS. Mediocrity is the dry root that Perhaps the most faillj; walker in Southern Cui f paral- butcher bird, or the L1'-shrikeyzes progress. the Lanins bureau A Pleasure in work is the mere delirium On almost any tree one if rluipsodists. The cant of politics is scarcely less ered warriors mav be sec, , ' form with its s reprehensible than its corruptions. claws erful of of iu is telling the pursuit pleasure, birds Pleasure are their equal in delu-lioind all selfish achievement is a courage, and tbe name buM '' ly applied as no The man whose rule of life is policy the same delight in torturu,. of the or glory lever knows the glow this pugnacious lonest enthusiasm. wood near by. only a few d A daub fair sized lizard AVliat is a painted picture? wa5 found mud a libel on nature impaled upon a af sharp twV , thunder of the stage. the sheet-iro- n unacquainted with the butchir ' to run incident would have It is not quite possible for methere is that conviction the from hins of a mystery, as the lway afflicGod for in cant of lot thanking hardly commit suicide, and n i tions. disposed, could not have I never knew a man to be lifted out twig so firmly through its b,? f a groveling condition by marriage act was a characterie one of 4' J vith a woman whom be knew to be his ered friend; its prey, impaled m this barbarous fcu uperior. Vice which parades in the panoply of vet alive. Almost every where these birds Virtue is honored and applauded when Virtue herself is contemptuously gives evidence of their curJ'' the thorns affording good looted by Pharisees. the act. On one tree, iZa4 the observed supetimes I have many locusts, beetles, sparr'' hoppers, woman adapts a rior tact with which variety of animals have been lerself toiler environment. Indeed her often left untouched; aud so st.' mpulsc in that direction is instinctive. the habit that the bird frequent The Creator endowed birds with a to hang np other objects. Af4 1 rnowledge of the time to migrate. served one for an hour 4 issume that the creation theory is ing to impale anearly piece of stark, explan-itor- y as woman to iqually applicable imagining that the bW of her natural desire to llv from perhapshad object something animate ia.se surroundings. The methods of the butcher b The worshiped idols of the stage are be well observed by providing it" Their ut- artificial barbs. In one insuills ncarnate commonplaces. most achievements are inevitably and latter were composed of hard grotesquely dwarfed when brought points, branching out lace to face xvith the ideals that the fasteued to a tree. It was not V meanest of us recognize. fore one of the little black The debased man holds all refine- captured and forcibly impaled ments in contempt. He takes as kitidlv A grasshopper A batli pushed on; then a mole cricket ,o rags as to royal raiment. He upon another picket a small gives him moral hydrophobia. was thrust. None of these objet ioes not even care to bide his sores un-la garment of politeness. cept the bird, were torn, all Ua Debasement is unnatural to woman. as ghastly trophies. In impalia;' The outcast is, perhaps, reckless of her this butcher would use both he good fame lost; but it is only in the "last claw, often accomplishing tit i one vigorous blow. The hu:ck itage of woman's descent into the hell that she becomes indifferent to have a wide geographical rangt, common in Europe as well as mi. liose imfinements that make her sex ica; and in the various countries they are found they show the a: Reputations for profound thought are rious habit, which lias been exp. e sometimes gained by intellectual men. The checks they give on in various ways. One theory is that the butur lie bank of brains show big figures on of r Jieir face, but they- do not yield the hangs up the assemblage colored.. insects anil highly gaudy ?oin. The profoundest thought has no as baits or decoys to attract a iubious meaning. are the objects of birds Mothers seldom stop to think that tite. that claim that the e Others lespotic rule of their daughters nag- does it out of wanton pleasure, e y ging and irritating sentinelship of encing great delight in the sir. step is by reduction a of the victims. The truth is, tl; They needed Argus watching, there-'or- e its prey in this warmer their daughters are as little trust- impales hold them during the repast worthy. Is that the way they would lacerate them, and the gre..: help us lave interpret their suspicious her of victims found can be for from the fact that the ki grown so that the bird catch? Mr. Gladstone. than it can eat, and impales aiid'f Teachableness is the trait of Mr. them just as other animals, as cat jlladstones mind which most strongly birds instinctively. The California are ittracts his friends who have followed yet attractive in the.r lint in his noble career. Men whether coats of grey, black and white, goting or old prove their intelligence, note is a loud, discordant lot by what they know, for the wisest Call. man knows little, but by what they are How She Made it Pay. lapable of learning and unlearning. Amazed at certain Most of us having received opinions out a poor girl who had from our parents, or from our peculiar r and whom I had ot: to adhere iducation, them, not with asked her whether! and friended jcnacily merely, but with obstinacy I had learned about the ind pride. within her experience a: Mr. Gladstone's lias been a growing may imagine my astonish-1ind a rising mind from youth to hoary replv: said. ige. Iiis father, Sir John, a Liverpool Well, Miss Clara. she merchant, was a most fixed and devoted one of the oldest hands in the bs lory; a slave owner; a conspicuous and aud I used to wonder, as I saffitit mthusiastic supporter of Tory Govern- things were taking, how long ments. He was a Scotchman, too, both he before I would suffer fro ay birth and lineage, and the Scotch moralization of my calling. ire slow and hard to change. There is came, but I found' it to profit10 Tory quite so set as a Scotch Tory. saw the same danger From such a father, the future plover ness that I did and began to lo; itatesman went away to the University for me and for himself, so tr if Oxford, which invests Tory princi- keeping me at work here ples with the charm of venerable and late at night for several mgU! omantic antiquity. What a beautiful denly kissed me. I sprang I have cvpw ;ity it is! How easy to forget in its and faced him. leaceful gardens and secluded walks, said I, and have been prepay ,n the shadow of its ancient and d can now take your choice of colleges, along the verdant shores your conduct to my brothe if the silvery Isis how easy to forget me $20 a week down for a IP the ugly struggles of the poor for life, vance, with a written apooc. f the oppressed for liberty! How easy promise to respect yourcU iO forget tbe common lot y me with the utmost respect altogether! Then he went to parliament, not by remain here. He was a the choice of a free constituency, but frightened and ashamed, ? iy the simple mandate of a powerful command. I had been ge me Duke. On this new scene, treated lie through fore that s ilial duty, lie had to half apologize for and turned over ais fathers possession of slaves. He respect, ness with me to his clue iccepted the Tory and high church chief clerk in turn caught lystem in all its extent supported every infection, and one cvenin,, measure of his party, and wrote a tome. The next day I no aih church book. that I had been afliont But his mind was, happily, capable of yer manded the chief ler , jhange the change that comes of Iiis reply was: Miss Je growth, of increase of knowledge, of discharge him, but j lympathy with man and with the Your salary is now o f movement of the time. lie was teach- a moment please. aJ i , chief able. He was open to couviction. bell, called in the The Irish Famine taught him; RichYou have fo ard Cobdens cogent and the character I l'0j lt i reasoning taught aim; the cruelty of Italian kings taught apologize to Miss Je sq , aim; and he slowly learned to put more employ. After that Jjoe rust in the people, and less in their in my presence " c .,,n;inC aereditary rulers. Liberty regulated shall call you to an awo tt ,r ,, f ay just laws; government by the whole brother or whethei the , universal and people; the least education; buried forgotten. zine. a to m , restraint of inclination consistent with The chief clerk man ardor ; a and right; and last but not least, you never saw Iolitical Pointers. die fear of God. and the desire to meet and I promised no i A political rage suffrage. His approval; these became his maxi-mus 'Hie ballot-bobrother, so that stutter isi poll evil. ing of policy. The nation for candidates nominamingly, and I am The of all he strangest is, that tion. thing otl left retains this is that the onkb remarkable of it It is the of capacity caucus that catches the early t3r to the great died when I was a drinks. growth and , of seventy-sixwhen even the A nomination in the hand is worth ige alone in New T oiradical is apt to grow timid nearer than Kentucky two in the bush. Goodall's Sun, ind conservative. 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