Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-05-03
TALE AGAIN. DEFEATED.

His stead.
The second Yale-Harvard joint debate
of the season was held at the Hyperion
theater last evening and the big theater
was taxed to Its utmost to hold the i'm
mense crowd which focked- to hear the
representatives of the two great univer-
stiles CROSS lances in oratory. The absence
of DIR. ohaunoey M. Depew of New York,
who was announced as the presiding OFF
Ger of the debate, caused some disappoint-
ment, but President Welles of the Yale
union Immediately introduced President
Dwight, who acted as the presiding officer.
President Dwight in making the opening
address spoke az follows:
81 suppose under circumstances highly
embarrassing to myself tonight, know
that you are disappointed in see
ing me here. The" Hon. Chauncey
N. Depew, who was to have presided,
has been detained by illness in his family.
However, 1t is great satisfaction to know
that the disappointment will be over when
l have taken my seat. One cause of my
embarrassment Is that am called upon to
1t has been my fortune to impersonate
other people at times, yet never felt that
should be called upon to stand in place
of our nonored friend. One of the news
papers of the home city of our opponents,
university, who derive enlightenment from
Yale from strange sources recently stated
that President Porter had just given out
the annual report of Yale university, and
had requested contributions to the amount
of g, ooe. 600.
"Yet If you 60 away this evening feeling
that you have heard the best oratory from
the Massachusetts college and the best
oratory Yale can produce and have not
seen our honored friend shall be satisfied.
The judges of this contest are President
Seth Low of Columbia college, President
Gates of Amherst college and Professor
Richmond N. Smith of Columbia college.
heartily welcome them to Yale and am
sure that whatever their judgment may ba
Yale will concur. also Weleome Hsr-
wards representatives with warmth. Har-
ward and Yale have always sustained
peculiarly intimate relations. For two
centuries they have been firm friends
and the most generous foes. and we
have lived to enlighten the world for the
truth. We are the two oldest colleges in
these northern states and have worked in
many respects along the same line and
with the same ends In view. The subject
for discussion tonight is:
Resolved, That the time has now come
when the policy of protection should be
abandoned by the United States" and
the first speaker Is in the affirmative by
Harold Edgar Buttrick of this university.
On the stage were many invited guests,
| among whom were Prof. Thomas D. Sey-
mour, Prof. Marsh, Prof. Hopkins, Prof.
Harris, Prof. George B. Stevens, Prof.
Mark Bailey, Postmaster N. D. Spsrry, J.
| D. Dewell, Rev. DR.. Burdette Hart, Prof.
Ladd, WV: Farnam, Judge Loomis, Prof.
"a. The following officers of the
| Yale union: President L. A. Wells.
| '9S, Vice President R. Fl. Nichols '94
Secretary E. R. Lamson '93, Treasurer E
T. Persons '94, Chairman of Executive.
Committee W. g. Bronson '93, W. e
Thomas "a, Rev. DR.. Newman Smytbe
Alexander Troupe, Professor Adams, J. @
Adams, L. s.; d. K. Smith, P. g.; E. 4
Lamson '93.
Among those In the boxes were: Boxes
and 2, Professor and Mrs. Arthur P. Had
ley, Miss Johnston, Mrs. Niles and Mis-
| CLARK; box 3, Professor A. M. Wheeler ant
party; box 4, Messrs. Bronson and Phelp
with ladies; boxes 5 and 6, Dean Franct
Wayland of the law school and party.
The ushers appointed were W. z. Payn
'95, Roger s. Baldwin '95, Lindsay DENIM
son '95, and F. NJ. Lloyd '93. 49,
YALE-H E BUTTRIcK.
The first speaker of the evening wa
Harold Edgar Buttrick of Brooklyn, N.
| The history of the protective tariff in tn
} United States has been a long and varie
, | one; Whether the numerous differer
tariffs have been the result of SCUM
economic legislation and were not rathe
caused by party sectional and lobbyin
interests is matter open to great doub
. Waving the question, however. as
whether the policy Of protection may hav
been productive of good in the past, "
claim that the time has now come when fe
the best interests of the country at large
should be abandoned. Nothing was want
ing to dispel the whole delusion which ha
been imposed upon the American peopl
as wise and judieious policy but dis
passionate and unprejudiced examination
was impelled by the recent enact
ment Of the Mckinley law a grea
wave of tariff education rolled owe
the country, resulting in the popula
rejection of the theories upon which pre-
lection is built. First we claim that tn
tariff does not raise wages, but on the cor
trary lowers them. The truth of this clair
Is not at first so readily apparent. If in
particular case the European laborer n
ceives one dollar per day and the Amer
, can two it seems at first glance that If til
tariff were lowered or taken off the forme
( would undersell the latter in every cast
American cotton industries, wheat, axei
, | copper products, shoes and saws, thong
exported on scale of wages nearly twic
as high as those of Great Britain and &c,
: many, are in much greater demand. I
each of these cases, then, we outsell til
foreign article in open competition. an
the high wages are due not to Pre-
lection but to q more efficient an
productive labor, better machinery
and to conditions of greater natural adapi
alton. Second, the tariff encourages an
invites the formation of all kinds Of trust
and monopolies. At present any comb
nation of capital can control the produe
ton Of any one article, and by the me
nopoly thus formed can pat up the pric
to within fraction of the total of the cos
of the foreign article, plus the expense Q
, duty imposed. Thus composition is abso
lutely shut out and the price really charges
includes an exorbitsnt profit. We hav
no legal way of protecting ourselves fron
} this extortion, except by taking off tn
tsrix. We must 60 on submitting to tn
impositions of the select few, paying trus
prices for the very necessities of life, JUS
SO long as a high and unjust tari1
removes all fear of competition fror
the monopolists in control, 1t is no NOR
logical or reasonable to impose tariff
wall between foreign countries and tn
United States than between the differen
states themselves. And 80 when you tea
down an anh:European tariff-wall it vii
no more follow as a result that our labo
will be reduced to poverty and our inter
ests paralyzed than the cheap New YorI
farm laborer at $40 per month should forc
the western wages Of $50 or more down t
its own level, or that cheaply made Bostol
boots should prevent an energetic MAJ
from producing them profitably in Denver
But the change could be adopted in a con
| sentative manner. Just as the law doe
not allow a landlord to evIct an undesira
BILE tenant without due notice, 30 in tn
present case let the transition be slow q
first, but none the less sure. Let us al
level all barriers to free exchange an,
throw open every port to every product
To remove commercial restrictions Is to in
crease commerce, and to increase commerc
ia to increase wealth.
HARVARD-H. O. LAKIN.
Herbert Conrad Lakin '94, of Worcester
Mass, said in part: "Can the free trade
justly maintain that his is the only RICH
interest, when men of all nations but Eng