The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-26
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Turkey.


N mors Of wars, of blood and broils
" and battles, of affairs of state and
stanpedes Of mules, of mans ceaseless
struggle for existence. wealth and
fame, the time has come when every
good American must turn his thoughts
to turkey. What is home without
mother, or Thanksgiving without its
turk? Other American institutions
may be susceptible of change; some of
them, possibly, may crumble and de-
cay; the Monroe doctrine may be ex-
ploded ana the principles of Washing
ton dumped into the garbage barrel;
the declaration of independence may
be pigeon oled and the federal consti-
tuition taught all manner of contortion
acts; cake walks may be blithely trip
ped over the grave of Thomas Jefferson
and the Jeifersonfan theory of govern
ment stood upon it's head; the nation
may launch forth upon career of i'm
perialism as gigantic in scope as that
of Rome-conquering far countries with
fire and sword, drawing polygamous
sliltans with their retinues Of hourls,
bosom going to the uttermost parts
Of the earth to unfurl the star-spangled
banner over the land of the weak and
the home of the crushed; and still the
custom of making turkey the roast de
resistance OF Thanksgiving dinner will
be preserved in all it's pristine purity
and prime. Unalterab1e as the laws of
fyoY, Ia
the everlasting hills, imperishable as
the blazing orb around which worlds
on worlds in their stupendous orbits roll
this conception of the turkey as the
very essence and altar of Thanksgiv-
Ing will remain.
Breathes there an American citizen
with soul so dead to the institutions of
his country as to substitute on his
Thanksgiving dinner table goose. Or
chicken, or even the royal canvas-back
duck? If any such there be. there is
something radically wrong with his cit
,izenship. lie is fit for treason, strate-
gem and spoil. He should be denatu-
rallied and expatriated. It is perhaps
not against the canons Of Americanism
in sparing quantities on the side; but
turkey must be substantially the whole
works; any other notion of Thanksgiv-
ing dinner Is false in theory and treas
enable in practice. There is one other
Wand only that may properly be called
a copartner of the turkey in the
Thanksgiving business. and that is
MI &c
preston prevailing in some quarters
that rnince pie is the right concomitant;
but mince pie, unless used as a subor-
dinate accessory to pumpkin pie, is a
piece of vulgarity, betraying shocking
ignorance of the customs and manners
peculiar to the occasion. Tina -lSsgiving
day is Of New England origin, and
turkey and pumpkin pie as the menu
of the feast they established them fol
all time. Mince pie is the correct thina
for Christmas, when it fairly divide!
the honors with plum pudding, but a
Thanksgiving mince pie, if it takes an,
part at all in the exercises, must pla!
second fiddle to pumpkin.
The finest turkeys in all the worl'
are grown in Rhode Island. In tn
eastern markets the genuine Rhode Isl
and turkey commands five to ten cent
more q pound than any of his esteemed
contemporaries from other parts of TIL
country There is something abou
Rhode Island peculiarly favorable 70
developing the turkey to the highes
possible state of perfection. At leas
that is the claim made in the Rhod
Island turkeys behalf. and the CLAIM
is audited and allowed by epieurean
who ought to know. The chances art
that just as deIectable turkeys can b.
grown in the Bitter Root as in Rhod'
Island. The turkeys that nine-tenth
Of tho population of Montana will ca