The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-22
LION AND THE LAMB
Verify, This Will Come to Pass in
the City Called MisSOula.
WAR OF PENCIL PUSHERS
And the People Stand Upon the
Banks of the River and Exclaim,
How Can These Things
Be-" and so Forth,

Missoula, March 21.-Behold. this I
the story of how the lion and the lam
lay down together. even as it is writer
In the great record of the city which
was builded by the river:
And II came to pass in the city tina
was builded by the river, even the cit,
that was called by the people thereof
Missoula, in the reign of the kinl
whom the people called Jack even tn,
wise ruler that cut down expenses AND
ran the city on business principles, tina
there was great strife, even among the
singers OF ink and the pushers of pen
ellis. For there were within the city
TWO papers and one appeared i'm the
morning and the other in the evening
even upon the rising of the sun and
the going down thereof.
And, 10. there was great strife he.
tween these sheets and much hatred
between the editors thereof and they
abused each other sorely. But, behold
the funny snap about IL all was that
the pusher of the pencil who did the
most roasting, even he of the curly
Jocks and sentimental nature. wrote
nrst on one paper and then on the other
ana ne roasted more and more.
Ana the people of the city, even the
city that was builded by the river and
was called Missoula marveled much at
tnese things and said one to another
How can these things be? For, be-
hold, the pencil pusher calls bad names.
even to the man whom we all want for
state auditor. and when he has called
MN everything that he can think Of
behold, he works for him and damns
the other fellows"
And they were answered not and then
marveled they the more.
But, even as these things came TO
pass, behold there was an election in
the city and the people were to choose
whom they would have to sit i'm the
council of the wise men and there was
much contention in the city, even
among the reps and the dems and the
pops but the pops were not in IL to any
great extent.
Now, while the people marveled at
these things and watched the papers.
even the morning and the evening
sheets. call each other thieves, liars.
traitors and other names even more af-
fectionate than these. il came to pass
that there was new contention between
the papers and the editors thereof for
both claimed to be of the reps and each
said to the people of the city: I'VE are
the stuff. The other sheet is "A fake and
is not rep or any part of one" And, /
10, the fight waxed hot
But there were wise men I'm the coun- /
ellis of the reps who said one to an
other: why should these things be?
Behold, these sheets either are or are /
not. Let us see for ourselves" And /
10, the denis had no paper within the
city and they were glad. lest 1t should
be of the nature Of the sheets of the
reps.
So IL came to pass that certain lead
ers in the councils of the reps, called
unto them the men who ran the papers,
even the morning and evening sheets.
even they whom the people of the city
called Boos and Mitchell and Bowen
And when they were gathered together
In the council room of the reps, even
In the office of Tom, whom the reps had
from the dems. then said the
leaders unto them, even unto the men
who ran the papers and pushed the
pencils and slung the ink and mud:
See here, you fellows. You have
strapped enough. This thing must
stop"
Then related they unto the men who
an the papers. the story of good old
Alex Mayhem, even Alex whom the
people called Judge and whose home
vas in the land across the mountains
which is called by the people of the
'ity, Idaho. And the story as il was
old by Tom was this. even in the crude
language of him who told II:
Some years ago when Judge Buck
vas about to leave the district of Ida
10. the lawyers and politicians gave a
banquet. Among the many speakers
vas Alex Mayhem. and his toast was ,
The Bar Alex was in good humor.
lie had quaffed more or less freely of ,
he wine which had been served and :
vas feeling mellow. After he had de- !
lvered an eloquent and brilliant ad- !
ress eulogistic Of Judge Buck. he re- !
erred briefly TO the Idaho bar and ,
hen branched off. He said: Il see at .
his table the editors of our two papers ;
his is the first time that l ever saw /,
hem together. For years they have ,,
allied each other thieves. robbers, liars,
ools and rascals until they have made
s believe that they are both right.
low that they have convinced us OF .
his. think they ought TO quit" :
And 10. when Tom had told the story q
Alex Mayhem. even of Alex whom /,
he people called Judge. the men who =
an the papers took a tumble and fell =
II over themselves. And then Tom,
ven he whom the reps had captured
'om the dems, spoke further unto
hem and said: Now IL is with us even
5 II was with Alex and the Idaho
len You have made the people of the i
Ity believe that you are both right
hen you call each other rascals. Let
S have peace now that we are onto a
ou"
And. behold. II came to pass when the q
len who ran the papers heard these u
lings that they We're sore. They re- !
elled among themselves for the medi- !,
ne was hard to take. But they | =
,asoned among themselves and said: 4,
Behold. IL we do not this thing. there :,
Ill be no plums for us. so we will do q
)" And thus the lion and the lamb q
y down together and the evening ii
lper ate octopus soup while the morn r,
g sheet became the friend of the a
orkingman, even Of the one whom %
ey had abused. ~