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Show Misrepresented 6. H. Roberts in Editorial Comment September 19, 1919. Editor of The Standard; As i did nm SSS In your last nlRht's paper rhal I lencc of the statement h made in ihe 'editorial of Thursday morning! Kxara-, iner I am enclosing you berewlU) & ropy of a letter that I am v. r it i n i? to tne editor of the Examiner, and re-i re-i quest that you publish same In the columns col-umns of vour paper. Yours vrrv truly (Siffnpd) H. M. MONSON. Editor of th Examiner: It is hard to Imagine a more flagrant distortion of truth than appeared In the editorial page of your Thursday Thurs-day morning paper. If you heard Mr. Roberts in his tabernacle address last Tuesday evening, you should know as every one Hse who heard him knows, that he did not say that Great Britain Brit-ain had but on" vote in the league of nations. If you did not hear him, ou .-bould be careful what you say for fear of fntelllceni people peo-ple thinking that your purpose was to deceive and mislead instead of to inform, as should be the purpose of every good newspaper. I If you have read the league ) covenant you should know, as I know and as every other American citizen who has read it knows, that the covenant provides for an assembly, as-sembly, whose powers are limited to discussion of questions that may come before It and a council which Is the executive body of the league. When Mr. Roberts exclaimed that Great Britain was enttiled to only one vote, he referred to the council and explained that while votos in the assembly where qu'v tions were freely discussed a.i suitable or unsuitable for deCOia mendation to the league and its members, she had but one vote in the council which has the exclu-1 exclu-1 alve right of aetl04 for the league. The last paragraph of Article 4 reads as follows; "At meetings of the council each member of the league represented in the council shall have but one vote, and may have not more than one representative " Did you not know that this was nnr of the provisions ol the covenant? cove-nant? If not, what business have 3 nu pretending to instruct in intelligent in-telligent publi- in regard to it f if you did know that this was one of its provisions, why did you make such an attempt to garble tho question ss to quote a provision regarding the assembly as applying apply-ing to a statement made b Mr. Roberts r warding the council? Mr. Roberts told his audience e en more plainly than you did that the covenant provides for six otcs for Grat Britain and her colonies col-onies in Ibe assembK. and there was no occasion for misunderstanding misun-derstanding him. If you know what he said, your editorial referred re-ferred to can have but one interpretation- that Jt was a willful attempt at-tempt to mislead the people who have enough confidence In you to read your paper. If you do not know what Mr. Roberts said, better find out before attempting to criticize his statements. state-ments. No, the document Itself does NOT refute Mr Roberts' statement state-ment and you know II if you don't know it you bad better read It for the purpose of finding out what it contains, instead of for tho purpose of distorting and garbling gar-bling to meet the partisan ends of it opponents. If such distortion of truth Is your only defense for your objection to thet league of nations, the people will ?n,,n be able to see that sneh tactics alonl furnish the best of arguments agaiusl the soundness of the position of tho It ague i , n n i - I would like, this to reaeh ay 0X7 rr er of your puper who read your editorial edi-torial referrod to above, and In the Interest In-terest of fairness ask that you publish it in an early issue of your paper. I -hall take the liberty of giving It to the Standard for publication also so that every one who board Mr. Roberts Rob-erts will know that such mis-sthte-ments as you made cannot go unchal-longf unchal-longf d Yours very truly, I (Signed) H. M. MONSON. |
