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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 9, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 46.

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"BOYCOTTING."

By Editor

At almost every meeting of the Land League in Ireland, it is said, three resolutions are presented, and every one who joins the League must solemnly pledge himself to stand by them. The first is that no man shall pay to the landlord more than a certain fair, fixed rent. The second is that no man shall occupy land from which another has been evicted. The third is that any one who does so shall be "Boycotted." This has been explained to mean that he shall be "personally and socially ostracized." He may from the day he takes the land as well be another Robinson Crusoe upon the island of San Juan, with or without his man Friday. He can neither buy, sell, nor trade with any one in the neighborhood. Neither is he permitted to gather his crops in peace. If he wants clothes for his family he must send to some far-away town. In short, he is left alone in his glory." Captain Boycott, the first landlord agent to receive such treatment, has finally been obliged to leave the country.
The state of things is anything but desirable in Ireland. A leading San Francisco daily has the following to the point:—

IRISH DISCONTENT.

Clouds seem to thicken in Ireland. The tendency toward violence appears to increase. The course of the Government in proceeding against the leaders in the Land League, is reported to apparently have increased the violent manifestations against landlords and the laws. It is reported that uniting the Fenian sentiment and members in the Land League movement, has made the latter much more formidable and more dangerous because of the secrecy covering the plans and actions of the League. Troops in small numbers have been sent to the most disturbed districts of late as precautionary efforts to prevent outrages and put down uprisings. But the ground-swell of discontent still rolls along and seems to gather speed and momentum. The threatening fire may expend its heat and die out without any general outbreak, but it would not be strange should the present discontent result in a general insurrection. Should that occur, the arm of the British Government will be found strong and not over-merciful.