The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-26
ANACONDA NEWS.
JOSHES RAM|LL'S CLUB
New York Times Devotes an Ed
itorial to It's Organization.
Is "A MONTANA MENACE"
Fear Expressed That the Club May As
sumo Such Proportions as to Be
q Power in the Politics of
the Nation.
is "A MONTANA MENACE"

Under the heading, "A Montana
Menace" the New York Times prints
the following editorial concerning AID
erman Jack Hamills alleged mo Mus
tache Club" which is gaining a ma
tional reputation:
The people who vote in Montana are
so apt to be intense in their moods and
lenses before election and to insist so
dogmatically upon extraordinary be-
1iefs as the test of political fidelity that
it is difficult to avoid feeling of con-
Germ about newly organized associa-
ton that has cropped up in Anaconda,
the qualification for membership in this
club being total abstinence from the
wearing of mustaches. A man with a
mustache may join the No Mustache
club of Anaconda by patronizing a
barber, who may tolerate and even Gull
tivate any other facial adornment of
hair, however extraordinary, favored
by the candida te for this strange club
AS the originator of the No Mus
tache club is an alderman and Ana
conda is democratic city, exercising
an influence in Montana second only
to that exerted by the senator from
Butte, there is some justifiable concern
excited lest this new organization, re-
rapidity, shall extend to Butte, Bill
fngs, Helena, Missoula, and even into
the Milk River valley, and that it's
growth. marked everywhere by mounds
of mustaches reaped from the faces of
hardy citizens, shall be followed next
summer by the appearance in the dem
ocratic national convention of a dele
cation of Montana men without mus
taches demanding that the affectation
of hair on the upper lip of man shall
denounce him as no true democrat.
AS an issue, the non-wearing of
mustaches may easily commenced itself
TO Colonel Bryan, who has always Gull
tivated the good opinion of BARRIERS and
his own approval by discouraging the
growth of mustaches on his statesman
like upper lip. But while he might
employ his eloquence in denuding dem
ocratic upper lips of mustaches, becom-
ing or otherwise. he would be debarred
from reproach of Mr.. Mckinley as his
opponent, for the president has Stunned
mustaches with a constancy that be-
tokens conviction since long before
Colonel Bryan discovered that il was
one of the tests of democracy to ac
cept the theory of Is to /.
The Montana report does not reveal
any latent purpose on the part of the
No Mustache club of Anaconda TO
/ favor the admission to membership of
any but male persons without mus
a taches. That seems to be a mistake,
very grave error. if there is any po
ltical purpose behind the demand that
the absence of mustaches from the face
is to he regarded as an indication of
superiority and orthodox democracy.
The Montana mind, however, will grasp
the Importance of the suggestion that
if there is a political purpose TO be un-
covered by the universal sacrifice of
mustaches, it would be advanced with
greater rapjdity and zeal by comforting
its potential benefits upon those who
would rather have the ballot than the
mustaches they do not often have. as
we'll as upon those who would rather
give up their mustaches than the ballot
they already have"