Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1908-09-17
EXACT FACTS
ABOUT FRACAS
Showing That the Calf Is Certainly Entitled tt
the Palm as Wholesale Prevaricator.

The Divine Maker has implanted
:. +bo human heart an impulse to
.now and speak the truth. That
;nrnIse may not with some become
living. potent factor in shaping
,horacter and doing good for hu-
noritv but may become stif1ed or
dos4,oved, and he who acts or
,nooks in contradiction to that i'm
nnIso in order to further his own
solfsb ends, becomes at once a dan
car to society. Especially is this
t,up Of an editor. His very position
clothes him with a power to iniu-
once the public mind. His training
in the world of journalism should
have developed in him the ability to
zee things and conditions as they
are, and his impulse should be, and
his duty is, to report them honestly,
IT'D IVY -~5
and with a sacred regard for truth.
This is applicable to all matters,
whether the same be personal af-
fairs Of the editor, or subjects of
ublic concern. The public should
receive through the columns of a
newspaper the absolute truth on all
matters touched upon. When it
becomes known that an editor has
deliberately misinformed his read
aS and betrayed his sacred trust,
he becomes an object of scorn.
The editor of the Review in the
last issue, in an article headed VIC
ious Assault" says in relation to the
fight hetWeen the editor of that pa
per and R. L. Wyman, that in view
of the fact that garbled report of
the same had been given, the people
are entitled to plain statement Of
facts, and then goes on to give the
FACTS? and a lot Of excuses. Per-
haps no man ever received a trounc-
ing at the hands of another, but
who, had conditions been just lit
tie different, would have put it all
over the other fellow. In that arti-
Gle the Review says that once upon
atlme another local newspaper pub
Rhed some awful things about Wy
man, much worse than the Review
did, and Wyman never evidenced
any physical resentment then. In
other words, the Review thought
because someone else escaped, that
AWould take a chance at it. Met
cali PLAYED with the fire and got
burned. He is sore because he re-
eelVed a sound and we'll deserved
whipping sore because Wyman did
aO' resent by physical demonstra
uOh the articles published by anoth-
s' local newspaper at the time of
puOllcation, in which event Metcalf
would not have attacked Wyman
through his newspaper and thus
would have escaped a blow that put
4n down and out.
Ihe following is a list of some of
uE LIES appearing in the Review
y last week, calculated to arouse
gmpathy for its editor and re-
him: ' "''0 "nippe0
" Lih No. l. The Review says that
aS s'calf went to the county clerks
suNe TO file bill for printing and
s.ppies, This is untrue! He did
'e IN his possession at that time {
J Of articles which he had furnish.
:" the county, but the amounts
sle not extended. The bill was in
s'.,,9 npiete, and if filed as it was, i
tba a'p ~ not have been acted upon b,
y OOard of county commissioners
not auSe y 1t was not itemized and dix
y, " snow how much Dawson count,
| I'm p1eOted to the Review.
WEN rlL No. 2. The Review says tha
Sstas,a. Ssnasa hurled a heavy ink we'll a
| tbs Salf at as soon as the latter entere,
,t,o1 1nee 4 door, and that he wa
hi Sh sa,I by it on the collar bone, tn,
sr,t t'u,ashlng ~, upon his collar. In tn,
pos,;bla blace e 1t would be physically i'm
as ao,1 o,e Tor Metcalf to be struck 6,
'''Af bone, or anywhere in tha