Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1898 — An Ancient Boycott. [ARTICLE]

An Ancient Boycott.

This notice of a boycott more than 100 years before the word was invented appeared in a London paper in 1735: “There being some Indian and French silks now selling by auction in this town, and two or three brewers’ wives in the earl of Meath’s liberty having bought a few pieces thereof, the master weavers and dyers, as well as journeymen of those corporations, give notice by beat of drum that they would not drink any liquor whatever brewed by the husbands of the said women, who would encourage foreign manufacture when there are numbers'of poor weavers in a starving condition in this town and all over the kingdom, for wantrof employment.”