How to Boycott.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 4, 27 July 1910, Page 7

How to Boycott.

Under the title “How. to Boycott,” an Irish cbVrespondent of the “Times” describes in that journal the Holycross conspiracy ease and the penalties that betel Mr. Charles Neville Clarke for his defiance of the United Irish League. Mr. Clarke had promised to give 200 acres of his untenanted land for sale and distribution when he had been paid for his tenanted land already sold. The League ordered him to sell 600 acres at once. Mr.' Clarke refused, ami he and liis wife, says the correspondent, “have kept the flag flying for three years now, not only for themselves, but for every man in Ireland who wants to call his soul his own.” The League’s persecution began by its men drumming Mr. Clarke out of bed at dead of night; they broke, his windows, battered his door, sent a mob to howl before his house, pelted the coachman’s lodge, and “behaved generally like fiends.”

Every shopkeeper in the town of Thurles refused Mr. Clarke’s goods, and returned his cheques at the order of the League. Neither could any one of his thirty or forty servants get the necessaries of life. Mrs. Clarke opened a shop in the house and supplied their needs from consignments of goods sent frm Dublin. Mr. Clarke housed and supported 60 policemen for the protection of his property.