The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-23
At the Boarding
House Dinner Table.

Kightly considered" said the law
student. reaching for the celery,
rightly considered, the Clark barrel Is
a wise and beneficent institution. As
Stunning that Butte has a population of
10000. and that the output Of the bar
rel is $500. 900. we find an Increase In
per capita circulation of $40. a net re-
suit that is peculiarly gratifying to the
masses. I feel like challenging A. ].
Campbell himself to a Joint debate on
the proposition that as il affects the
circulating medium barrelism Is a bet
ter system of finance than bimetalllsm.
What the country needs. pass the but
ter. is not so much the opening OF the
minis to silver as the opening OF the
barrels to the people. We can get
along TO our entire satisfaction without
free silver IL we only have free gold.
1 am a gold populist. I agree entirely
with Shifelbin and Meaney and their
cult. Clark's Financial School COM
mends Itself to my judgment as su-
perior In all essentials to Coins. /
am a barrelist on principle and I re-
gard w. A. Clark as the greatest of
modern benefactors. The salt please"
Il don't believe a word OF IT," said
the landlady: I've got very little use
for that man Clark. His barrel never
helped my per canita two-bits' worth.
His thread is all right usually buy
Clark's O. N. T. spool cotton. but that's
all the business dealings I ever had
with the man. Every time he ever
opened the barrel all my boarders got
drunk and disorderly. Clark has made
me more trouble than he's worth. I
don't know much bou Campbell. but
i will say whenever I meet Clark on
the street i feel just like taking him
by his billy-goat whiskers and saying,
w. A. the Bible says IL is easier for
a needle to pass through the eye of a
rich man than for Campbell to enter
the kingdom of heaven Perhaps
Clark's barrel has helped some peoples
per capitas but II never did mine any
good. All the per capita Nv got I've
had to work like a slave for"
II am a gold populist myself" said
the hardware clerk. There isn't a
man in Butte who is a, greater admirer
OF the barrel than I am. I may say
without fear of successful contradlc-
ton that the barrel hasn't a more sin
cere, loyal. devout. steadfast friend
than / am. There is nothing l wouldn't
give up for 1t. II everybody else de-
serted IL. I would still stand by the
barrel n no consideration should
swerve me from my position or my
purpose. 1 would stay right with IL
and be glad Of the opportunity. The
trouble is i have never been able to be
as near n dear to the barrel as /
would like. I have never succeeded in
establishing such close. cordial and in
innate relations with the barrel as |
desire"
why don't you speak to Clark about
it," suggested the dry goods clerk. IF
] were you 1 would take Clark into my
confidence. Some more boiled onions.
i should tell him to feel perfectly free
TO appoint me his managing bung
starter. Mr.. Clark is sometimes reti-
cent and dlffident in these matters. He
needs to be properly approached. /
would go to him IL I were you and
frankly say to him, See here. w. A.,
these strained relations won't do. There
must be nothing between you and me
but the barrel"
That's as much as you know about
IT," replied the hardware clerk. You
are ignorant of the fundamental prin-
clples OF gold populism. Meaney. Shift
,Ah @hhAI III ohh Nht III WdlhiliB
delegates won't let Clark hire a bung
starter who is not a membe in good
standing of the Bung Starters union
and Il isn't so easy to get into the
Bung Starters union. The theory is
that the position Of bung starter de-
mands the highest type of skilled work.
a "A common workman always
bungles the job says Pat Meaney. Tt
nAAls q .AaN1. rltNt.l -.--r...- n -
or Shift to work ". A. to a finish. see?'
II the regular bung starters see Clark
appointing a bung starter who is not
a member OF the union, they go to him
and say. See here. w. A.. you have
violated our principles and as con-
sistent gold populists we are compelled
to strike How much this liner says
Clark. Another thousand apiece say
they. Gentlemen, I protest against
these continued exactions of the union
as cruel and inhuman.' says he. Stop
that say they. All you've got to do
In this business. w. A.. Is to pungle.
That's what you're here for. II o
weren't here for that purpose, you'd be
In New York or Paris. Being here. we
won't lose you. Willie. Don't ever be
afraid of that You are here to do
business with US and we are here 10
do business with you. You aren't here
for your health. neither are we. o
require a good deal OF us. Do you
think we are swallowing Bill Thomp-
son because we like him? Do you think
We are running this idiotic fusion of
yours for the fun OF the thing? Do
you him we enjoy whooping II up
for publication OF politics when h
very idea is abhorrent to US and when
the whole city is onto the racket and
keeps guying US night and day? We
come high. w. A.. but you must have
US. We spoke OF 1000 apiece Just now.
but we find 1t necessary to fine you for
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