The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-26

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d. NJ. Simmons next spoke for Rich
mOnd, and for twenty minutes pre-
scented an able argument. He read
his remarks, and his voice was not
strong Some of his expressions were
peculiar and he brought many
laugh. He cited the case of the con-
trol of the Indians of America as
benefit to them, and said that the
United States was now doing good
work in Porto Rico and the Philip
pines War over backward nations he
held to be a benefit to the world. A
negative view he held as impractical
as imaginary a stick with only one
end Liberty was all right. he said,
but liberty meant self restraint. There
must be control, or it would be as III
the days when in San Francisco a
miner with money would lie down to
sleep and wake w dead with his
money gone. you can no more give
a backward nation independence with
out control than You could give
June bug a watermelon, as neither
would know what to do with the gift,
he said, and later that Roosevelt
may look on the negro as free, but
does not 50 regard the Filipino, who
is held in subsection and over whom
he places his political friends" In
closing he urged that there was a
call to the advanced nations to help
the backward ones, and that if they
failed to do so God himself would
take a hand i'm 1T. A summary of his
remarks are to be found in these
points:
ID The question restricts the con-
troll TO the field of good; CD The adj
vanced nations control gives the num-
Der. character purpose and results of
wars a stem toward beneftting the
world. So The resultent of the
forces of good and evil has benefited
the world. (4.) The negative is i'm
practicable, but the affirmative practi-
cable. (5) Liberty cannot be given
to a race before self restraint is de-
veloped. CO. There is q moral and
political right in harmony with the
revelation of God and the best that
is in man. 90 The people of Hayti,
of Africa and the Islands of the Pacific
are calling for help.
The quaint expressions, the pronun-
citation and the gestures of Mr.. Sim
mons caused many a laugh in the au-
dience, but the argument he presented
was an able one, we'll conceived.
Olive for Wake Forest.
Mr.. A. H Olive, of Thomasville
closed the debate, speaking for Wake
| Forest He declared that there was a
| fiuctuation in the national passion for
control of other nations, and for eigh-
| teen minutes vigorously spoke against
! taking hold of other peoples affairs
| TO manage them, declaring that there
was no necessity for it, that neither
| commerce nor an overDluS of popula-
! ton demanded any such control. Ger
manys primacy in trade in Brazil he
| held was because colonies had gone
| from Germany TO Brazil and there was
no control. He said our trade ir
| Cuba was five times as large as ou1
| trade in the Philippines, six times as
| large as Cuba, this because we lost
! by our control.
A control of a backward nation, III
| held to be a return to the feudal sys-
tenn Of the middle ages, and in con
| traSt showed the advance of Japan
! not controlled by an outside force, as
| against India, controlled by England
after it's conquest. In closing ht
urged that no nation. however ad-
vanced had a right to step in and take
| charge of the affairs of another ma
| ton that the strong had no right &c
! trample on the rights of the weak
| who bear the stamp of the Divine
| image.
The RejoindcrS.
| The rejoinders by each of the -four
| debaters were vigorous and well put
| Weak points were taken up anC
| counter arguments were produced
while each debater challenged point:
| made by his opponent. Mr. Pollard
| declared that in examining books il
the Congressional Library at Wash
ington he had found that Presiden