The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-14
WHIT PFEIFFER

Special to Tho journal.
Ma Aiosrt t fam M4n 8 Ean w. Hayes
and Henry Swanson of the Albert Lea
high school are the champion debaters
of the first district in the contest for
The Minneapolis Journal trophy in the
State Debating league, having won with
the affirmative side of the question with
Winona last night and having before de-
feated Blooming Prairie with the mega
tive side.
The Broadway theater was crowded
and the audience was an enthusiastic
on. There were banners of the various
classes of the Albert Lea schools as far
ahead as '0S and they made a pic
turesque appearance in the main body
of the house. After an opening by
school joined in singing an adoption Of
the famous Yale Borla song, Mrs. j.
4. Fuller, the teacher Of music, lead,
ing. The words were as follows and
they created wild applause:
Well, here we are; well, here we are!
Just watch us laying down the facts.
Wen leave those fellows behind so far
They won't want to debate us any
more.
We've hope and faith in Albert Lea high.
To win we cannot fail.
Well borla boo, etc.
Now, isn't It a shame; now, isn't 1t a
shame!
To do those fellows up so bad?
We've done it before, we can do it once
more,
Tho they'll feel very. very sad.
Well bling up the points very high,
That you will hear them sig.
Well, a borla boo, etc.
The stage revealed Albert Lea at the
left side and Winona at the right, each
with q table decorated with the class
colors, the former red and white and
the latter orange and black. AS the
curtain rose Paul Miller played a violin
solo with an accompaniment on the
r. Jones, superintendent of schools of
Blooming Prairie, presided and an
nounced the question to be Resolved
That the policy of reducing immigra
ton to the United States to minimum
is practicable and should be adopted
Points Made by Young Debaters.
The first speaker was f. W. Hays o.
Albert Lea. He argued that immigra
the quality of the people coming her
from the old countries of Europe; tina
if the same kind were arriving now as
quarter of century ago, radical re
striction would not be necessary, bu
the change has been for the worse, am
he quoted eminent immigration
students to prove his contention. II
asserted that present laws cannot b
enforced, and would be inadequate i
reasonably observed. The only way t
remedy the evil would be to have
stricter law, and he quoted Commission
er Williams as authority.
Whit Pfeiffer Of Winona opened tn
debate for the. negative. He argue
first that restriction would be too nal
be excluded; third, it drew sharp lin
between people who are really the same
fourth, the idea is conceived by selfis
interests: fifth, the test is unjust; sixth
the: test would arouse evasion if il
spected.
When Miss Margaret Lampert, fc
the affirmative, was introduced, the A
bert Lea hi gh school gave the follow
ing yell:
"When Margaret Lampert takes tn
floor, Winona high school will be n
more She devoted her first arg
1nent to describing the difficulties
assimilating these vast armies of in
migrants and gave statistics to prov
her points. She. then spoke Of the u,
United States, and declared "Litt
Italy, or a ''Little Russia would /
menace to good government al
American citizenship She then shove
the antecedents Of criminals largely
the disadvantage of aliens and flo
jeigners. = ~. .--
Clarence Blume then took up the Gu
gels for the negative, and at the sta
denied that the dregs of foreign socie
came here as immigrants. He thoug
no worthy person should be refused a
mission into the United States becau
he happens not to have relatives
friends here to vouch for and care
him. He asserted that the polite