Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1892-11-03
AMATEUR STUMpERS
National Issues discuss
ed by Harvard Clubs.
M'KlNlEY AND FORCE BILLS
Criticised and Defended by Aspirants
for Forensic Honors.

CANRRpGT, Mass. Nov. 3-The Tar-
,urd Republican ana Democratic cam
pMga club. met in joint debate in san
ders Theatre last evening before a good
SIZED aulie.re. the subjects under discus
sion being a. Mckinley bill and the fed
erpl detection, bill. ). NJ Brice, '92, intro
duced as the presiding officer Professor
J.. B. Il Briggs, dean Of the college, who
introduced "a. the first speaker j. ;.
Brown, l.. : Of the Democratic club, who
spoke upon the Mckinley bill, briefly as
follow
In considering the operations OF the NcKin-
lev bill. we must first consider how we, tho
plain consumer, can he benefited hy a meas
ure of the lo by. framed for the capitalists.
The old taTin system l. best summed in n let
Ter OF the largest steel manufacturer in Penn
sylVauia, who said: The tariff Is ours: We
bought il and paid for IL. That is the w olo
story" | need not point out to you that
fallacy tina; high duties make high wages. IL
is a known fact that Democratic orators
have gone around the country asking any
man who has had his wages raised since tho
operation OF the Mckinley bill 10 stand up,
and hardly man arose.
Here MIR. Brown aroused applause by
unrolling an enormous list of strikes and
lockouts which had occurred since the
Mckinley bill began to work. In closing,
MIR. Brown spoke of the spirit of the
Middle Ages which characterized such IA
Measure Of legislation.
A. L. Stone, 1913, answered
For The Republican Club.
He said, in brief:
] have here "A list Of the necessares of the
poor man ana the luxuries OF the rich, which
my friend has claimed have been affected by
.gaa n.
uries aa steel plates iron and what not have
been lowered and such necessities rs pianos
and jewelry have been raised.
Mr.. Stone devoted the remainder or the
speech TO an swering his opponents claim
in regard To lower wages and the great
prosperity of the country claimed To be
due To the Mckinley bill.
Thd federal elections bill was then taken
under discussion, aud w. G. Brown, pre-
sident of the Democratic club, was the
first speaker. He spoke in part as follows
Federal Elections.
A centralized machinery, vast, complicated
and costly, is thus created. low estimate
Of the offices established In 2j0,0l0 and tho
cost, though not of the first importance, would
be correspondingly great, while there would
be constant friction with state officers, and in
reference with the state and local elections
would result from the fact that the latter are,
In most states, held at the same time and
places with the congre Sional elections. But
the second count vi our indictment is far more
damning.
Ii is that this bill is the worst example In our
history of legislation distinctly partisan
and unfair: tor ii creates a machinery won
derfully contrived TO give the party in power
the means of maintaining its ascendancy. And
now is the time TO ask the question, is there
any necessity grave enough to Justify meas
ure that involves such "a menace 10 our liber-
ertics2
The Republic IN side of the election bill
was discussed by II. NJ. Gillepsie, L. 3,
who spoke of the bill as the corner stone
of American independence, the guarantee
of an honest ballot He said:
The great cry of the Democracy Is that this
bill il sectional, and il IL sectional, intended
for the sections whore an honest ballot is not
assured. We ought to think of this bill If
such atrocities as are happening in the south
wore 10 happen ia our own commonwealth. Ii
is not a force bill, but an anti-fOrce bill
against fraud and deceit in voting everywhere.
The Mckinley Bin
was then retaken up, and the Democratic
side was again discussed by A. >. Hayes,
l.. ). lie produced a printed list as an
offset to that produced by Mr.. Stone,
showing that the articles upon which the
duty acted 90 raise the price Were really
necessities, aud quoted figures TO prove
his claims II lower wages as the result Of
the bill
The last speaker Of the evening was A.
X ; earns, L. >, of the Republic club.