Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1882 — Nothing New Under tne Sun. [ARTICLE]

Nothing New Under tne Sun.

In tie Course of a recent lecture upon i ‘Ca tes and trades in India,” Monier | Williams, Baden professor of Hanscrit *at Oxford, said that the Irish land le*rue ial not invented “Boycotting.” India had furnished examples of “BoyCotters” and “B lyouttees” for many centime-'. When the lecturer was in India a cloth merchant of Ahmedabad titid committed a henious caste crime by mam ing a widow, aud was- thereupon “Boycotted.” No one would nuy from him, or sell to him. or speak to him. or live with him, aud none of his debtors would pay their debts. He could not sue them,, for no one woitli give evidence As in the Irish land league, rise members of an Indian caste had no individual liberty of actlofiV they were forced to subordinate the laws of the state to the x mandates of those who presided over their own organization. Progress was arrested, energy paralyzed, manly independence crushed, public opinion stifled, liberty destroyed.