The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-04-04
UNTERMYER SAYS IT'S LIBEL.
puiO Counsel Replies to ". 4. Van
Antw-rp's Critirtsm.

Samuel Intermyer, counsel 70 the
pujo committee replied in the ErpHinO
NdN Yesterday to criticisms made by
William G. Van Antwerp in that news
paper. This is Mr. l'ntermyer's letter.
addressed TO the editor:
SIR NV attention is called TO an article
in your to-day's issue headed 'tinancier
flays Puio ANorney. from which I note
with surprise and regret that ycu have
allowed the columns Of your respectable
paper 70 be used for the pei,r, :-ation of
IA number OF grossly libellous s'ateme mt =
affecting me.
4 Mr.. Van Antwerp is reported as hav-
ing asked among other things concerning
me
-. Has he himself ever;-peculated in sinful
Wall street,
The implication 4, plain that have
specula,ed which is untrue. ! have never
al any time specula'ed IN Walt Street or
e-sw here.
VA the neN paragraph reference ia
made 10 a transaction connected with the
Columbia STRAW Payer Company, which
occurred in 1891 twenty-five wears ago
which has been periodically exploited for
the last sixteen years as the basis for every
attack that has been made on me III the
course of the performance bv me Of a public
service
There is nothing in my connection with
the transG CtIon that required an apology
orrNCu-e u wasa sll' to establish "A stock
holders liability on the ground that the
stock. Of which We received n part rs n
bonus with the bonds. for which We pal
AZ par. had been issued for good " i'll
The quotations in your articl" from an
alleged opinion are not, as stated. from the
opinion of Justice Pitney. now of the SUI
preme Court The document was written
by Vice Chancellor Pitney. who was u very
old man at the time and shortly thereafter
retired from the bench anu has since died
Disiointed statements from various parts
Of the document have been put together
so as 10 create an entirely erroneous i'm
preston, going even 50 far in one instance
as to Cut n sentence in half.
My only connection with that transac-
tion was 10 lose large sum of money.
Every stoCkhOlder connected with the
organization OF every great industrial
corporation, the stock of which has been
issued for good viii or given as a bonus
with the purchase of bonds, has committed
he same offence. except that many of
| them pro'ited by the transaction, whereas
| | was large loser through the misrepre,
sentations that were practised upon me.
| In view OF the persistenCy with which
the So misre pre- So nations are being re peated
| ! must ask you to correct your article.
| Opinions may differ upon the economic
questions that are now before the people
| but ! am sure no fair minded man will
| sympathiHe with the intoerant attitude
! that prompts malignant personal attacks
| on every one whose views happen to run
| counter to the selfish interests of those
who are concerned in maintaining their
| own point Of view.
| NO one * stemperamcntally fitted to Ia ake
| part in the discussion OF these importan,
| problems who cannot approach the sub.
ject IN temperate and impersonal frame
of mind or who il so obscs ssed by the possible
effects of remedial legislation on his own
interests that he cannot distinguish no.
tween 'bIllingsgate' and argument
SAMtEL iNTERMYFR.
| New York, April ., Isia