Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1908-08-20
A LUDICROUS CONTEMPORARY

lowstone Monitor, might be funny,
considered in a certain light, if it
were not so absolutely silly and de-
void of all sense of argument or re-
futation.
Once while sauntering through a
famous geological garden, we came
upon a remarkable exhibition. In a
specially built compartment were hun
dreds of the beautiful little lizards
known as chameleons The bright
sunlight, streaming through the sky
lights of the reptile house, would fall
upon the little animals as they moved
and the accompanying reflections
would involve all the colors of gor-
geous rainbow. So it is with the Calf
in this instance. By whatever angle
the light of outraged public opinion
falls upon him, he presents diffe-
rent color to his viewers, until the
whole gorgeous blending of colors is
formed into a rainbow of reptile hy-
pocrisy, which gradually loses its ros-
cate hue as the bovine passions of the
Calf arise and form a black exterior,
which is his distinguishing character
istic when ''riled" by his contempt
raries or otherwise.
Mixed with this Importation hy-
pocrisy is a total lack of consistency
that makes his prodigious efforts at
explanation exceedingly laughable.
Witness now his strings of vitupera-
ton hurled at the liquor interests of
the Gate City. Just a few short
months ago this bovine prodigy car
ried several saloon ads in his so-called
journal. Then in a thoughtless mood
he passed some inopportune remarks
in print and the ads were withdrawn
from under his very nose Several
times since then he has solicited vari-
Gus saloon men for ads and subscrip-
tons, but the latter were too wise for
him and refused to hand over their coin
to reptile who would doubtless sink
his fangs in their backs at the first
opening. This rattlesnake habit of his
has always been in evidence since his
hackers imported him into the county
But people are getting wise to his
Jekyl and Hyde performance and will
soon give his vicinity as wide a berth
as possible. The Monitor has a good
list of saloon men and others whom
this hypocrite has solicited for bust
ness and been turned down by. Such
list would doubtless be very interest
ing reading to those persons who have
heretofore been disposed to view him
as a saviour, come to save Dawson
county from irretrievable ruin. Apart
from the above, the Calf carried liq-
uor ads in the Dawson county fair
premium list last year AMI in other
productions from his added workshop.
Seeing is believing.
When the Monitor has anything to
say, it does not require column to
beat about the bush before getting at
the gist of the matter at hand. That
fact has always been apparent to the
most casual observer or reader of our
paper.
If one has perused the Review at all
carefully during the past few weeks,
it will be noticed that its promoter
has been making a howl to Heaven
concerning his lack of advertising
patronage. In fact, the situation is
exactly as was predicted would happen
by the Monitor several months ago.
BY his senseless chickering's the Calf
has lost the respect of all decent peo-
pie and his advertising patronage has
rapidly gone by the board. Meanwhile,
during the past year, the Monitor has
carried far more varied advertising
than ever before in it's history, which
shows that the advertisers are fast
learning to appreciate good medium
for getting before the people. We ex-
pect as great an increase in the COM
ing year as we have had in the past.
The Review garbler makes the
statement that he will issue daily as
soon as advertising patronage war
rants. From opinions passed by Glen
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