The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-13
HARVARD WON FROM YALE
BLUE DEFEATE FOR THE NINTH 0 TIME IN DEBATE.

Hall CrOwded-Professor Henry Wad'
 Rogers sPresided-HOlme es, of Harvard
 the Debater of the Evening.
 X The fourteenth annual debate be- tween Yale and Harvard took place III
 this city last evening and the verbal
 contest resulted ill favor of the Grim
 son. The debate was one of the best
 and most interesting ever held between X the two universities. The speakers de- livered their arguments in an able and
 eloquent manner, which held the clos-
 est attention of the large and apprecia-
 tive audience assembled in College Street hall. Professor Henry Wade
 Rogers of the Yale Law school was the
 presiding officer. The judges were Pro-
 lessor Frank J Goodnow of Columbia
 university, Walter H. Page, editor of !, the "Worlds Work" and Rev. D.
 Leighton Parks of Boston. The ques- tion under discussion was. Resolved
 that the Immigration of Chinese labor CTS into our insular possessions should
 be prohibited by law"
 Arthur H. BalIantine. Harvard '04,
 was the first speaker for the aff1rna-
 tive. He opened the subject in very broad and comprehensive manner and furnished an excellent basis for the con-
 structive arguments of his colleagues. The hatred of the Filipinos for the Chi
 1lese; the three hundred years ot sup
 pression of the Filipinos by the Span-
 iards; the desire of the Filipinos for
 their liberty and the invaluable re- i sources of the islands were forclbly
 impressed upon the audience and also < upon the judges.
 Robert H. Ewell, Yale '03 D. C., op-
 ened for the negative. He claimed 2 that the Chinese should be admitted to
 the Philippine Islands for the purpose x of competing with the natives who
 needed keen competitors to stimulate
 them to their best efforts. He refuted
 the idea that the Chinese could be cas-
 ily kept out of the islands, which are
 only 700 miles from China when the
 Chinese cannot be kept out of the Unit
 ed States which are 5000 miles away.
 He also dwelt upon the necessity of
 admitting the Chinese to our insular
 possessions for the purpose of doing
 work that the Filipinos simply would
 not do and for the purpose of assisting 5 in the development of the natural re-
 sources of the islands.
 ! John H. Holmes, Harvard '02, follow ed for the affirmative. He was the speaker of the evening. His oratory was fiery yet not too much so. Ills enunciation was perfect and his points were presented in strong and iin- pressive manner He averred that the United States had a great duty to per form for the Filipinos and that the duty was the total exclusion of the Chi nese from the Philippine Islands. Their contact with the natives would be lowering and degrading. He claim ed that we are in the islands at the present time not for the purpose of ex- ploitation but for the uplifting of the Filipinos. MT. Holmes believed that Che natives could not be elevated by subiecting them to competition with a class of people who are beneath them
 George D. Graves, Yale Law '03, took up the argument for the negative. He claimed that the Filipinos desired the Chinese in the islands for the purpose | Of doing the various grades of work 1 which the Filipinos would not care to | ldo any more than the Americans cared l 10 supplant the Italians in the work of | railroads. MrGraves made | a strong point when he advocated the | granting of privileges to the Filipinos | which the local conditions, the condi- l lions in the islands demanded He stat | ed that the educa tion, advancement and l Civilization of the Filipinos, as with all | nations depended largely upon the com- | petition with which they had to con- l tend. hence the competition of the Chi | nese would be a stimulus to the natives. l He also believed that the United States | stood ready to furnish the capital for | the uphuilding of the FiliDinos and l their islands and that the industry l must be furnished by the Filipnos and | that this industry would be the result 1 of competition.
 George M Nichols, Harvard Law, was the last speaker for the Crimson. He wanted to leave the development of the Philippine Islands to the people of | the islands. He was not in favor of any sudden or mushroom growth, but thought that a slow development, brought about by the Philippine people would be far more valuable to the peo- ple and their islands. He argued that the Filipino is skilled laborer capa- ble of opening up the mines, building railroads and developing all the nat ural resources of the country.
 Isaac G. Phillips. Yale '02, closed for his side. He took up the Hawaiian question and went on to prove that the Hawaiian Islands were left in a wretched state when the law went into effect compelling the Chinese to leave the islands, and then MT. Phillips show ed that the governor of the islands and many leading planters had requested the repeal of the exclusion law, that the law had been changed and the com mercial and agricultural conditions had been greatly improved by the return of the Chinese laborers. He stated that the United States congress has passed all its exclusion laws without thor ough understanding of the case and in direct contradiction to the wishes and advice of those who had acquainted themselves with the exact situation. In the refutation the entire six men showed up remarkably we'll. Ewell did he best work for Yale, and Holmes not only exceled for Harvard, but sur passed all others His refutation was if an exceptionally high order.
 During the time the judges were out