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Show Roberts Meeting Held Friday Night The Hoberts meeting nt the Tabernacle Tab-ernacle Friday evening was largely attended! the great orator drawing his Usual crowd. And as was expected expect-ed it was purely Itobertsonlan, except ex-cept that it was' void ot facts that accompany his arguments when the gentleman appears on oilier subjects. And too, it was purely Wiisonlan In that it supplied tho rhetoric while the gentlemanly talk of Major Clark supplied the facts. As usual the great orator took about fifteen minutes to warm up, apologize for lack ot time, and for his Inability to bo prepared to the limit. Then another fifteen minJUs to tell why It became .necessary for President Wilson to go to Paris Kngland having sent Lloyd George, tho glbbest man In Britain, and Wilson, Wil-son, not having a man In tho Democratic Demo-cratic party that ho could trust, and of' HUlllclcnt size to combat tho llttlo Welchman, it becamo necessary for him to go himself. Then another fifteen fif-teen minutes was consumed In qualify lug himself as a constitutional lawyer, law-yer, he having mastered tho subject In six weeks nt a ttalnlng camp, and belittling Major Clark, a native son of Utnh, and a student of whom the state Is proud. Having arrived at this point he then proceeded to answer some of the Clark niguuients and floundering around amidst fiery flight's of oratory ora-tory and prutty phrases to tho ex-tremo ex-tremo delight of thoso who admit e choice rholorlr and flno dellvoiy. Ho claimed that former President Taft, Charles Kvans Hughes and Kll-hu Kll-hu Hoot, nil lawyers of distinction, had passed upon tho league of nations, na-tions, and declared It good, and sar-captlcally sar-captlcally Intimated that sucli decision deci-sion ought to bo equal to tho ndvorso opinion of Major Clark. His last fifteen minutes was devuied to Senator Sena-tor Smoot and Bishop Nllhey, tho speaker taking them to task for citing cit-ing certain passages of scripture up-l on which Mr. Roberts also placed his own'prlvato Interpretation. Ho was very careful to nail President Grant and his councillors for tho lcaguo of nations, nnd felt that Bishop Nbley and Senator Smoot were proclnlmers ot falso doctrine On the whole the big orator did not measure up to his usual standard. Thero was a lack of the bombast which characterized his pompous ef- fort in 1016, when ho declared that President , Wilson had "kept us out ot war"- and Implied that he would continue- to do so. Thero nppearod to be much .chagrin upon his crest fallen countenance, doubtless due to thoughts that creep through his soul from time to time as ho recalls his hypoci Itlcal appeal In 1916: "Don't raise your boy to bo a soldier." Still thero were hundreds that enjoyed him from start to finish. It was evident that his apologies were opportune. The time was short and all teallzed that he had not had sulllclent tlmo to "bono" up on tho subject to meot Major Claik In any satisfactory way. But at tho samo time ho eortalnly supplied tho language lang-uage while Major Clnrk supplied tho facts. His explanation of why Wilson went to Purls was severe on tho Piesl-dent, Piesl-dent, many Democrats declaring that If tho Democratic party did not linvo a great many who could combat com-bat Llojd Georgo with better resufts than Picsldent Wilson did, tho Democratic Dem-ocratic party must be poor Indeed. Ills criticism and attempted belittling belit-tling of Major Clark only served to lessen tho lufluuuru nnd stature of the eloquent, nblo nd dignified gen-tlcmun gen-tlcmun that Brlgham H. Roberts oncu was. In tills particular ho made a sorry spectacle or himself, as does every man when thiough lack of argument nnd ability to combat nn opponent ho icsorts to vindication. in ins mention oc mu maim laiu.'ii by Taft, Hughes and Root ho forgot to mention thut Tuft was tho flist to suggest reservations, that Ilughus followed suit, and Root never would never stand for such a inonstioslty as Wilson's League with loseiva-tlons. loseiva-tlons. As to Bishop Nlbloy and Senator Smoot they aro no doubt In u piotty good positron to tako euro of themselves. them-selves. Up to dato they havo gono along over untroubled seas In a church capacity, havo never sought to ilomlnato or Interpret scrlpturo for tholr fellowmen, nnd so far aH wo know thoy havo not given their brethren, much concern as to their private stand on religious matters. At least they have always kept their heads, maintained perfect polso which Is something that cannot bt Bald to tho credit ot sonic of their brethren President WlUon deslreB. President Wilson's swing aiound tho cliclo Is simply n llttlo feeler with third term piocllvltlos, but even that is vanishing. vanish-ing. Tho humiliation that will follow fol-low a President that Is so complo'o-ly complo'o-ly overwhelmed by a Senator who i following him, will be so complete that prlvato llfo for Wllhon will bo a "consuniatlon dovoutoly to bo wished." Tho pooplo .havo respect for tho President ot tho United States and will show it In a truly American nnd wliolo hearted fashion, but as (o his theories, sophistries and vagaries, Nay, Nay, Paulino. "Ho kept us out of war" Is '.ho first thing that an American thinks when tho nnmo of Wood row Wilson Is spoken, nnd tho nverago American has no faith whatever what-ever In his slippery words "It you paRs this lcaguo tho boys In khaki will nover havo to pass the pond again," |