Article December 15, 1917 Issue

Whether The Christian Science Monitor has lost much of...

Judge Clifford P. Smith

The Miami (Fla.) Metropolis

Whether The Christian Science Monitor has lost much of its former excellence since the entrance of this country into the war, as The Miami Metropolis has asserted, must be a matter of individual opinion, yet the further comment that The Christian Science Monitor has become a British newspaper can hardly be true, unless there is a substantial disagreement between the United States and the United Kingdom with regard to the war.

From the beginning of the war until the United States entered it, the Monitor spoke from the common viewpoint of nations who desired to maintain neutrality in spite of the German government's continual violation of neutral rights. Since the United States entered the war, The Christian Science Monitor has spoken from the common viewpoint of the several nations which have felt obliged to defend universal rights by force of arms. In this situation the Monitor has not become British any more than it has become French, but it has, with at least a fair degree of consistency, spoken as "an international daily newspaper," whose location is in this country and whose voice is lifted in behalf of right against wrong throughout the realm of human affairs.

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