The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-03

~HE Standard is in receipt of the
first number of The Yellowstone
Leader, edited and published at
Big Timber by the Rev. William J.
Hannah, A. NJ, (Stanford), state sena-
tor from Sweet Grass county, soldier,
patriot, clergyman, journalist, political
economist, historian, psychologist phil
osophsr and seer. The Yellowstone
Leader is neat and attractive in ap-
pearance, in every way 1t is fair to
look upon; and the signed editorial
salutatory is spirited, bright and dig
nified. Brother Hannah delicately
serves notice upon the congregation
that his health is in no need of re-
cuperation; that the Leader is a bust
ness enterprise; and that at so much
year, preferably cash in advance, it
will lead them in the way they
should go. -.'
Those who follow the Leader will not
always be led into green pastures and
beside still waters. Brother Hannah
yearns for the battlefield rather than
the potato patch. To him the beetling
mountain crag possesses far higher at
fractions than the dimpled bosky dell.
The land flowing with milk and honey
will be passed by for the land spoutng
with red pepper and tabasco sauce.
For Brother Hannah is essentially q
controversalist, a double first wrang
Ter, casuist plenipotentiary and argu
mentarian extraordinary. He will
wrestle you catch as catch-can on any
proposition under the sun, whether 1t
be in religion, in economics, in sociol-
ogy, in politics, in science, in railroad
assessment in county division schemes,
in road laws, in measures for the ex
termination of wolves and coyotes, in
plans for the salvation of the heather,
in devices for the prevention of the
breakage Of shoestrings, in anything
you please-name it, pull off your coat
and sail in. No matter how tight hole
he may get into, Brother Hannah will
wriggle out some way. He is the boss
wriggler and will not be out-wriggled.
1t was Brother Hannah's supreme abil-
tiles in this direction that led John r.
Cling on nail.
Brother Hannah's strongest hold Is
political economy. In this branch of
science he let's his light so shine that
to weak eyes it Is almost binding. He
is an adept at it, a veritable mahatma.
Give him any abstract question In
finance and see him get the strangle-
hold on 1t. Give him a concrete roll
of fifteen thousand dollars and see him
get the strangle-hold on that, too
Others might spend their substance or
hot birds and cold bots, on little necks
and blue points, on Manhattan drys
Swiss esses, red raven splits, Grandor
hotel whist parties, midnight carriages
| to Wassweiler's and other forms OF
riotous living; mid Helena's pleasures
and palaces other Clarkards might
/ roam and never go home till morning
| till daylight did appear; but as fol-
Hannah he was better employed; he
cent, preparing for the morrOw's
speech, in which he strenuously strove
to enlighten the benighted minds OF
his colleagues as to what Karl Marx
thought of this, and what John Stuart
Mill thought of that, and what Will.
lam Jehosaphat Hannah thought Of
both.
We salute the Yellowstone Leader
Let the entire assemblage in the am.
phitheater arise and greet the new
gladiator now entering the arena, th'
doughty, dauntless Big Man from Bis
Timber! Bring on your Terrible Turks
the sports will begin.
The Released Prisoners.