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Show I '! BOYCOTTING. On Friday, December 11th, at about 4 : j ' o'clock p. m., a paper was handed- into the Democrat office Bigned by a number I 1 of bankers and other heretofore patrons ; : ' of this paper, ordering their advertise- ) - 1 ments to be discontinued. The first forms -. I had gone to press and it was then im- i possible to take the advestisements out. i ; Saturday evening they were taken out as ; v requested. Yesterday evening some of s ; these advertisements were reinserted, but this was a mistake and should not I have occurred. It happened in this wise : f Our regular foreman was at the District : 5 Court makine: a stenographic report of the remarks of Mr. Varian in the Lewis case, ' j and he detailed one of the typos to act as ' ! foreman yesterday. The typo so detailed ! j knew nothing of the order discontinuing these advertisements, and inserted them i by mistake. We regret that the mistake occurred, and we will see that it does not ; happen again. We have deemed it proper to say this much in explanation of the ' reappearance of those advertisements j yesterday. i Boycotting is proper if people choose to i ., 'use such arguments to enforce correct ( views on any subject. Its use is peurile in the extreme and indicates far 1 more of prejudice than of principle. To 1 study boycotting properly it is best to study it comparatively, the same as phil- : ology and anatomy are studied. On the 16th of Marchast an organization of the Mormon church known as the Young i Men's Mutual Improvement Association, which has many branches, held a confer- t ence in the Assembljr Hall of this city. At this conference a series of resolutions f were unanimously adopted. These resolu- ; tions were of a boycotting nature and will j be found below paralleled with another i" ; set of resolutions. These resolutions were ' specific in purpose but general as to the t . individuals boycotted. On the 10th of s j December, 1885, a number of "bankers, i . ; merchants and others" adopted a boy- f cotting resolution, but in this case the ' person, or rather the paper, to be boycotted boy-cotted was specifically named. The paper so named was the Democrat. We parel- : lei these resolutions for convenience's ) sake, those on the left hand being the ; resolutions of the Mormon boys and those : : ' . on the right being the resolutions of the "bankers, merchants and others." I ; Wheeeas, There ex- I .! ists in the Territory i of Utah at the present I i time a conspiracy j against the peace and I liberties of the com- I . munity of Latter-day t Saints generally, and ' our parents and i ' friends particularly; I and I Whereas, The con- t ; ; duot of those engaged j in this attack upon the people of whom I we form a part is, be- I sides being inhuman, cruel and brutal.indi- rect opposition to con- stitutional principles and the true genius of the genuine American f ) system of govern- j ment, which we are I bound . to uphold; f . therefore, be it I j Resolved, That we s consider the course of I j these anti-"Mormon" I f crusades as utterly de testable and repre- ! hensible; also, Resolved, That we j - view such characters I in the light of enemies f of mankind in general aDd of the Latter-day i ... Saints in particular; i ; therefore,be it further 1 Resolved, That we I . . ' mutually agree to j withhold from them I . and all who give them f aid and sympathy, I ? all business patron- I ' age,anduseour influ- . ence to induce all i others to take a simi- I .'. lar course; also I 1 Resolved, That henceforward we will 5 patronize those only I .) - who are friends of the ! J community of Latter- f day Saints, and that i f we will take a course : in all other respects I ' to preserve the liber- : ties of mankind in I ' general, without re- 1 spect to class or nn- i tionality. i '. ri j i . .. We, the undersigned, undersign-ed, bankers, merchants mer-chants and others,-of this city, recognizing the fact that the production pro-duction of silver is the leading industry of Utah, and the one on which the commercial com-mercial prosperity of Utah is mainly resting, rest-ing, and believing that -its demonetization demonetiza-tion was a grave commercial com-mercial error,and that any further unfriendly unfriend-ly legislation against this metal will be disastrous dis-astrous to the country at large cannot consistently con-sistently lend our support sup-port to a paper advocating advo-cating and approving the discontinuance of silver coinage, vide leader in the Democrat Demo-crat of Deoember 9th, 1885, from which we extract as follows: "His discussion of the silver question is both thorough and from the right standpoint, stand-point, and the conclusion conclu-sion he reaches in regard re-gard to a discontinuance discontinu-ance of an enforced coinage of silver correct, cor-rect, as we look at the matter. It is a knotty knot-ty question, and one that requires more exact ex-act knowledge and a fuller appreciation of the laws of trade and commerce than almost al-most any other question. ques-tion. The. question very nearly approaches approach-es trae science, and '. to decide one way or the other requires" the most exact and logical log-ical reasoning. It is the foremost question of peace in all commercial com-mercial countries." We therefore direct that our advertisements advertise-ments be discontinued discontin-ued after this date. McCornick fc Co., lLG.ltaybould, Cashier. Cash-ier. T. It. Jones & Co. Wells, Fargo & Co. J. C. Conklin & Co. W. G. M. Stewart. Geo. M. Scott & Co. Utah and Montana Machinery Co., C. P. Mason, Manager. Cunnington & Co. John McVicker. I ' ' ' k rank t oote. I . ' I Salt Lake City. De- ' camber 10, 1885. "M The "bankeis, merchants and others" I wh' V;ave withdrawn their patronage from he Democrat had a perfect right to J Co so, but we assure them that their en- ; deavor , erce this paper into an accept- ? anve i" iuoi ews on any subject will be I s fctTlc 1 - tlemen have assumed to ! ..deciJe- a .int important question ex ' cath'Hra lu-.d io enforce their decision ; I with a bull or communication. They ; s have most wDaliy failed in this instance ! and will in all others in which they employ em-ploy the Rime t vthods. We trust that ; ) in the future that these "bankers, mer- ' 1 1 chants and other.'" who prate so glibely j . about the intolei wno.o and bigotry of the ' I : Mormons in tl 'ilr.j.i.'iempt to boycott all i t who are not of their particular faith will r v remember to take the beam out of their : ; f own eyes lofore they undertake 1 to remove the mote from the eyes of the . Mormons. On the subject of boycotting ! . j we recommend them to attentively study j ' the following words from an editorial of ( the Tribune in reply to a question by a I correspondent of that paper as to what was its opinion on boycotting: "It"is gen- . , . , erally a most cowardly proceeding; t is vA -generally subversive of the liberties of - the country; it generally seeks to take m the citizen the right to choose for : elf what is best for his own good." i ; . i - '' i . x . Js.. |