The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-16
NOTHING BUT WAR TALK
Attorney Paschal Returns From
an Eastern Trip.
M'KiNLEy IS IN FAVOR
Farmers Attribute the High Price Of
Wheat 20 HIS Elecsion-Boston
Was Badly Scared when
b War Broke Out.

Attorney Howard Paschal. who ar
rived home Tuesday after two months
spent in the East. found all { talk
to be war bach there.
AT first" said Mr.. Paschal. every
body i'm Boston seemed to be scared to
death for fear Of the result, but now
business Is running along all right and
there Is a better feeling. Boston Is dec
orated'w with flags from one end to the
other. Bands are %parading the streets
almost every day. and there are Ameri-
can and Cuban flags at almost every
street corner. The Chinese had "a Dig
flag raising in Chinatown while ! was
there. and had some very distinguished
speeches.
II heard a great deal of favorable
about Montana at the time
its regiment responded so quickly TO
the first call. People seemed To think.
after that. hat we might still belong
to the United States and be patriotic
even though We might be an 'undesir-
able tate. l heard Bryan speak In
Boston,. There was "A magnificent
crowd and he was given a splendid
reception. At that time the people OF
His name would be Kissed i'm public
meetings and at theaters, but now he
Is back in favor again n Boston
thinks Mckinley is just right.
The people of Boston got much
frightened from fear that a Spanish
feet would enter their harbor. All the
women and children were ordered out
Of Fort Warren. and from this the
people got the idea that the govern
ment authorities had some bad news
which they were concealing. There
was almost a panic for a time. The
state house up on the hill would be a
fine mark.
will be plenty of Boston money in
vested in Montana mining enterprises.
and | think there will be n good deal
invested before the war Is over. Many
are taking their money out of railroad
stocks and putting it into mining
stocks. Copper is all the rage there.
and the capitalists will listen favorably
to any proposition for investment in
copper mines. But they seem to con-
slider IL 81 sin, a sacrilege. to invest I'm "A
silver min one prominent business
man said to me Ia he would rather
America had a war with every coun-
try i'm Europe than To see a silver on
gross this fall. There was half-craZed
rejoicing over the result Of the Oregon
election. They consider IL n forerunner
of the congressional elections this
fall.
without the prospects are
good for prosperous times for severa
years. one of Carnegie's men told me
that they have riders stacked up for
everything they can turn out from now
until 1901. ruRning fun force night and
day. The prospects for good crops all
over the Fast were never better. Some
of the Dakota farmers sold their wheat
at $40 in the bin. and Of course they
are happy. Some of the Kansas people
said they would be ~loaning money Ia
wall street before the end of the year.
They are putting up new barns and
buying pianos, and thew consider Nc
Kinley the cause of the high price they
got for their wheat. ] would be curious
to know what they attribute the great
fall I'm price which came with the col
lapse Of the Letter corner"