The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-16
MICH. WINS IN
DEBATE, ANYWA Y
MINNESOTA ORATORS DEFEATED
By THE ANN ARBOR TEAM.
The Visiting Debaters Were Reader
and More Animated, Tho Minnesota
Speakers Received No Discredit in
Losing the Contest-Winner will
Meet Northwestern.

BY unanimous decision of expert
judges last night, Minnesota lost,
and Michigan won the debating CON
test, between the university teams of
the two states, held at the university
chapel for the selection of a repre-
sentative team in the final interstate
contest of the Central Debating league.
This last struggle will take place April
8, at Chicago, between the Michigan
team and the Northwestern university
debaters. The question then will be
Should Labor Unions Incorporate 2"
The question was: "Resolved-
That the adjudication of disputes be-
tween employers and employee should
be made a part of the administration
of Justice: it being granted that if
tablished, and that labor unions may
be required to incorporate
Fact and theory spoke so strongly
for the affirmative that the negative
could scarcely have prevailed against
a competent affirmative except by
sophlstry and, more especially, by APP
peal to prejudice, to private interest
or to the technical view of law.
Yet the three Michigan debaters, as
a whole, were undoubtedly somewhat
better orators. Considered together
they were reader, more animated,
franker: But Minnesota, able advo-
Gates Of a bad cause, displayed the
most subtlety, the most ironical hu-
mor-powerful weapons with "the
many Had the case been heard be-
fore jury the foreman would in
fallibly have reported, I'VE ar cum
able to agree
All the speakers were self-possessed
logical, effective. In any state legis-
lature, in many congress, such ora
tors would be prominent. John c.
Bills deservedly led the wolverines:
Jesse G. Steeenson, best of the Mime
sotans, may we'll expect a political
future. The remaining Michigan men
were Clement M. Holderman and John
A. Rippel; the other Minnesotans. IT.
win A. Churchill and Phillip E. Carl
son. The judges were Emlin McClain.
Des Moines, of the Iowa state SUI
preme bench; United States District
Attorney H. G. Mcmillan, Cedar Ran.
ids, Iowa, and United States District
Attorney Lewis Miles, Corydon, Iowa.
The state university glee club sang.
and the Y. M. G. A. orchestra PLAYED.
The affirmative argued that strikes
and lockouts should be abolished. be-
cause of their pecuniary, political So
clal and moral evils; that, when
peaceable agreement between man
and master is impossible the public
welfare. always the SUPREME consider
alton, justified and demanded that the
courts should specify under what con-
ulClOHS lne relatlOnS between the con-
testants should continue, if they did
continue; that either party should
have the right to withdraw from re-
lations with the other; that the de-
cisions of the court would be upheld
by public sentiment and would thus
prevent continuance of futile strug-
gle; that many legal precedents have
been made for the exercise of such
judicial power; that, more specifical-
ly, the arbitration laws of New Zea-
land had proved tie practicability and
success of this lss3islatien: that the
substitute of voluntary arbitration,
thru public boards, had signally
failed. 49, ..s..zs.
For the negative, it was insisted that
the, proposed court could accomplish
little or nothing, unless it compelled
the men to work, the master to en-
ploy, at specified wages; that this en-
forcement would bring involuntary
servitude and be unconstitutional;
that the New Zealand legislation was
experimental; and that voluntary ar
bitration, the best available solution,
had settled many great industrial dis
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