The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-20
TO BE SAMPLED AT THE BUNG.

A barrel received some three months
ago mt the New York custom house,
and duly inspected, examined, sampled,
analysed and certified to contain a
chemical compound of the nature of
plaster, worth $40 and dutiable in the
sum of S2.25, has just been found to
contain, in reality, the body of a man
murdered last January i'm Copenhagen.
The corps of republican inspectors, ex-
aminers, samplers, chemical experts
and appraisers through whose careful
hands the barrel passed have FASTENED
to explain their inability To distinguish
between plaster and a corpse by saying
that they sampled the barrel at the
bung, and that there really was some
plaster there.
II is peculiarly appropriate that
sampling at the bung should be the
habit in the custom houses under re-
publican rule. The statesmen of the
republican party have been sampling
the whole tariff barrel at the bung for
many years, for the delectation and de-
ceiving of the people and, through their
corps of political samplers, examiners,
experts and appraisers, have reported
that IL contained the purest brand of
protection for American industries, of
untold value to workingman and
farmer and not a cent to pay on it: and
the people have, SO far, accepted the re-
publican appraisement.
The surplus reduction barrel is
another thing that the republican
statesmen are sampling at the bung.
Major Mckinley certilies that it is the
real tariff reform stuff and good for
Si0,0OO,0O0 a year of tax off the shoul.
ders of the people.
\ notice from the Danish police was
necessary to awaken the custom house
officials in New York to q
knowledge of the actual contents
of the barrel they had officially declared
to be filed with plaster. IL ought not
To he necessary to go so far away as
Copenhagen to find the means of
awakening the people to a knowledge
of the rottenness and corruption done
up within this barrel of so-called pro.
tective tariff, or TO make the people
know that Major McKinley's tariff re.
| form and surplus reduction barrel is
filled i'm reality with nothing but fraud
and deceit. This sort of protective
tariff does not protect. this style of tar.
in reform will not reform. They have
been sampled Mt the bung and, with the
small percentage of good ~cleverly
packed In there expressly for the sam,
piers to find. the attempt is being made
to delude the people into the belief
that the whole barrel is full of the
same stuff. This performance is of q
piece with the whole republican pro.
gramme in the past. The party has beer
continually trading upon pretended
reforms, alleged public b%enefactions
so-called progress and fictitious care
for public interests, all sampled from
the bungs of barrels that were reall,
filled with the grossest political and
economic evils.
The only barrel that the republican,
have inspected. examined. sampled
and analysed fully and thoroughly /,
the barrel Of the surplus. They hav,
Knocked the head out of that inviting
cask, and what they don't know about
its contents they will find out between
now and the next presidential election
IL they nave to work nights and sun
days TO empty il. No sampling at thu
bung there.