Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1898 — A Good Thing to Keep Up. [ARTICLE]

A Good Thing to Keep Up.

The movement among patriotic American women to boycott millinery, wearing apparel and other articles obtained in France as a means of resenting the unfriendly expressions of the French people in connection with the present war seems to have attracted considerable attention in different parts of the country. Should the war continue for any great length of time and should French sympathy for Spain continue to be swayed by French holders of Spanish bonds and securities the American boycott may easily grow into large proportions. It is the one weapon which the women of the United States can effectively wield in their country’s behalf. It may not come to a total rejection of French finery, but if it should go so far as to direct general attention to the indisputable fact that nine-tenths of the merchandise annually sent to this country by France is as well or better made in our own country, the partriotic movement would not have been barren of excellent results. Keep it up.