Show We Have All Been There The Montpelier Observer has gone into the hands of a new management Byway By-way of salutatory the new management says it is going to give Montpelier one of liveliest papers in Idaho Three years ago we said the same thing to the people of Malad but we were young and blithesome and inexperienced then and lied like a quarter horse We couldnt make it stick You cant get up much excitement and animation ani-mation in a grave yard This thing of running run-ning a lively paper in a little town that has the dust of ages clinging around its frescoed fres-coed citizens and great wads of mould and dry rot sticking to every mortal thing insight in-sight is the unrealized dream of youthful ambition The Observer further says We propose to give I the people the truth in every particular independent of politics religion or cliques Alack we are guilty of that same thing Three years ago we said we would proclaim the truth even if the ocean turned to blood and the heavens fell down aud busted in a thousand thous-and pieces But suffering Moses look at us now I We had a good deal of natural probity before we got mixed up with the country newspaper business but now we can stand up and lie and steal by the sold brevier column without a tinge of remorse or a sigh of regret and it fills us with inex pressible delight to do it I tickles our vanity to know that with the exception of two or three Democratic editors who were born with a genius we are the most expert ex-pert profligate and aimless liar in the state and the seeds of our proficiency were sown when three years ago in a moment of weakness we were tempted to write a salutatory bulging out with hopeless promises prom-ises and declarations of impossible virtue Malad Enterprise |