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DO NOT BOYCOTT
It will be a serious mistake if the business houses of the Eastern Shore decide to withdraw all trade from Baltimore City because of vitriolic articles appearing' in the Sun papers. It is no more, just to hold the business men responsible for attacks of the Sun writers than for the people of the whole Eastern Shore to be blamed for the acts of a few men in lynching a colored murderer at Salisbury. This boycott can accomplish no useful purpose and will do more harm than good.
Lead'ag up to this talk of boycott, was the nfortunate affair at Salisbury. Their act will give cause for a blush of shame to present and all future generations of Eastern Shoremen. Significant, however, is the fact that what feeling of anger and resentment actually exists, is not between the races, white and colored, but between the whites themselves, and this resentment is directed solely against H. L. Mencken,' nortorious writer, who contributes to the Baltimore Evening Sun, and is editor of The American Mercury, a magazine of iconoclastic teachings. This man whose name would indicate that if not he, at least his ancestors were immigrants to America, in a two column article in The Evening Sun, attempts to hold to ridicule, an entire section of the land which gave shelter to his ancestors, and to him, and in so doing, draws upon himself the condemnation of all fair-minded, right-thinking citizens.
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