The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-05
YALE WINS ANNUAL DEBATE
HaRTARD LOSES FOR FIRST
 TIME IN FIFE YEARS.

Question of Tendency of Labor Unions
 Draws Great Attendenoe-Y Yale Has
 sensation al Speaker in Law Janior-
 Prominent Men as Judgss-B.nquss
 Hold for visitors.
 For the first time in five years Yale won the annual debate with Harvard last night before an audience that filled Woolsey hall to the doors. The resol- ution on which Yale took the affirmative was:
 Resolved; That the history of Trade unionism in the United States for the past twenty years shows general ten- dency detrimental to the best interests of the country.
 The judges were: President w. H. F. Faunce Of Brown university, Hon. John Francis V. Greene, commissioner of the police department of New York city.
 The Yale speakers were: Marion I.e- Roy Burton, 19O6D.: Robert Studebak- CT '04S., Carrol Linwood Beede '06I.
 There were given the decision both for form and matter. c. L. Beede was the most sensational speaker of the trio and his fervid oratory delivered in true stump speaker tsyle with pronounced Maine accent, drew to him the attention of all and the applause of the house.
 The Harvard speakers were noticeably unimDassioned in the treatment of the resolution from the negative Standpoint and preserved throughout the debata an attitude of fairness and equity that won the applause of the general public and of the delegation of twenty-five la bor leaders from the New Haven Trades Council, who were present. 7 The speakers for Harvard were Ell wood Milton Rahenold '04. Morton Eu- gene Weldy 3L, Ferdinand Quintan Morton '06.
 Of the Harvard speakers E. M. Rabe- mold was the most pleasing. combining as he did a convincing manner with the impression of great reserve force. Atno time did he lose himself in the perfervid. although his depicting in rebuttal of the uplifting Of the workingnan was such a theme as might well have led a speak CT to the pathetic. Another Harvard speaker who was carefully attended by the audience was F. e. Morton, a color ed youth, who distinguished himself and was roundly applauded.
 President Hadley presided at the de- bate and introduced each speaker. At the close. however, he gave no speech, bEt announced his pleasure at the ar engagement which provided for music oy. the Newberry organ by Professor H B. Jepson while the judges were deciding
 Marion LeRoy Burton was the first. speaker for the affirmative and stated the plea of the Yale debaters when he said: :#tts7VVe shall maintain that Dor unions are tending, towards detriInen- tai result but we do not attempt to claim that this will do more harm than good eventually. The most pronounced tendency is for the unions to set their rights above the rights of all others" "
 He then detailed the growth of unions in the past twenty years, during which the small local bodies have consolidated into national and international bodies. From this he attempted to enlarge upon the danger to the community arising from such powerful bodies. To this end, he said that unions endanger and occa- sionally violate the right of contract, the right of property and the right of freedom Of personal conduct He con- cluded by saying: T don't question the possible value of labor unions, but do question the actual value.'
 E. L. Rabenold of Harvard then arose for the negative. He said in part: 'fThe speaker dweE upon certain tendencies Of unions. We are here to discuss the general tendency and we may decide this from the history Of trades unions. This history is made up of the deeds of the unions. The speaker has said that the worxingman has asserted himself during the past twenty years. Would anyone say that the best interests of the country had not been subserved by { the fact that the Workingman's assert ing himself?'
 He told in picturesque language of the necessity of organization in order that
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