In a brief reply to Dr. Smith’s Open Letter to me, I said this in the
_Tribune_. I am italicizing several words--for a purpose:
Whenever he (Dr. Smith) can produce from the Rev. Mr. Ament an
assertion that the _Sun’s_ character-blasting dispatch was not
authorized _by him_, and whenever Dr. Smith can buttress Mr. Ament’s
disclaimer with a confession from _Mr. Chamberlain_, the head of the
Laffan News Service in China, that that dispatch was a false invention
_and unauthorized_, the case against Mr. Ament will fall at once to
the ground.