THE BOYCOTT.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13479, 26 July 1912, Page 6

THE BOYCOTT.

The Wostpprt newspapers have had tho extremely bad taste to disagree with the leaders of the Red Federation, tho gentlemen who proclaim that an injury to one is an injury to all, and who insist that an agreement is a thing to be held to only so long as it is advantageous, and that just so soon as it ceases to lean all one way, it is to be torn and scattered in tiny fragments into the lowest depths of Erebus. So, the strike industry having gone a little out of popularity lately, and Mr. Semple being in dire necessity of hustling to keep things hotted up to the end that ho can keep his subjects up to the necessary heat of revolution —and, incidentally, hold his job—has proclaimed a boycott. In future any man who buys isixponn'orth of biscuits or a bar of soap —or allows his wife to do so—from a Westport grocer who advertises his wares in a. "capitalistic"1 Westport newspaper is, in the elegant phraseology of tho "Maoriland Worker," & "scab" who must lose all federation patronage and be starved into subjection. Czar Nicholas of. Russia, most loved of monarchs, retains the affection of his liejron by shutting \\\> the shops and t!u: newspapers .of those who neglect to revere the divinity which doth hedge a king. Czar Semple of New Zealand lacks only the opportunity of as ignorant a serfdom and as wido a sphere. In the raw instinct of despotism both have much in common.