The Simon Pure Boycott
Touching the " boycott," people seem to lose sight of the fact that this disciplinary method is no more — no less, than the old ecclesiastical excommunication and interdict, undertaken, however, by unauthorised and profane bands. For the better part of n century it has fallen into a desuetude in England and America. In Scotland it is good law yet, and the " congregation are warned to shun all unnecessary converse with the excommunicate." In England this sort of boycott was abolished by the statute of George 111. (1813), so now people denounce it as un-English and un-American. And so indeed it is to-day ; but the practice has sustained a vigorous existence of thirty centuries, being rooted in the Jewish Talmud, whence the Christian priests gladly borrowed it. Amongst people with whom any form of ecclesiasticism survives with vigor enough to give effect to its own censures, the " boycott" will seera no more than a natural method of disciplining the recalcitrant. — Dunediu Star.
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 84, 9 January 1890, Page 3
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164The Simon Pure Boycott Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 84, 9 January 1890, Page 3
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