Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-03-22
WV(l|I|lLMIAR DE|BATERS :.
I Are BuNC0ED
thy outdid Breckenridge on Ev
5sry Point Except in PreIimi:
nary Arrangements.
Impartial Listeners Outraged by
Unfair Decision and Pryor's
i !. Trickery.

prpuder of their debating team than on
last Friday evening when they met the
three yourg ladies who composed the
debating team of Breckenridge high
school. Never did our boys show up
to better advantage; never were their
arguments more clear, forcible and
convincing; never did they show a
more thoro mastery of their subject
orsa deeper line Of thought.
The opera house was packed and a
Large proportion of the audience con-
sileeed Of Breckenridge people who
h&a come to root for their team.
After the rendition of pleasing seleo-
ttons by the high school orchestra
aud q quartet OF high school singers
Prot. Hilleboe, the presiding officer,
read the rules governing the debate
and announced the question, which
wak Resolved that restriction OF
immi grafton to a minimum is prac-
ticeble and should be adopted. "
Breckenridge sustained the affirmative
and Willmar the negative.
Miss Libbie Eckhardt opened for
th4 affirmative in ten minutes speech.
Sig dwelt on criminality, pauperism
ana illiteracy and painted the tmmi-
gsxnt as the most debased and de.
ge4erate of living creatures. The
immigrant aud ;his decendauts we're,
without qualification, held up as such
shocking examples of human depravity
thu the people in the audience, who
we've all either immigrants or decend
ann of immigraats, must have felt
thu her word picture was either
ludicrously exaggerated or else the
AmHrican Indian is the only human
baing on the continent entitled to
respect. Her delivery was marked
bg A.clear and eretrating voice. dis.
ftipcI' ma a daeci mltory
rather than q pursuasive style. :.
/ The first speech for the negative was
Z by Wallace Martin. He traced the
results of our immigration policy in
the past and showed how it had result
ed In the growth of our country from
q few sparsely settled colonies into q
mighty nation, more powerful and
prosperous than could have been
dreamed of by the most far sighted
statesman hundred years ago. He
showed how every community is de-
sirous of encouraging immigration OF
the right kind In order that it's re-
sources may be fully developed and
quoted President Roosevelt's last
message to this effect. The attention
of our statesmen, said he, should be
directed to remedying the evils and
abuses OF our immigration laws and
not to the cutting of of our main
source Of development and national
growth. His delivery was that of q
clear, earnest and sincere thinker and
was entirely free from the elocution-
ary trickery which appeals only TO
the superficial. So clear and logical
was his language and the arrange.
ment of his thoughts that more than
one person dubbed him q young
Abraham Lincoln.
The second affirmative speech was
made by Miss Lois Paul. She also
dwelt on the evils attendant on immi-
grafton and argued that the immigrant
and his children besides being crimi
nails, illiterates and paupers we're lazy,
shiftless, unpatriotic and unwilling to
obtain an education. They herded to-
gether in large cities and increased
the slum element. They crowded the
native population out of all fields of
human activity, reduced wages, en-
riched their corporation employers
and either sent their money away or
departed with their accumulated wealth
to their native lands She asserted
that the resources of the United States
had been fully developed and that
there was no further room for the
immigrant. Her style Of delivery was
more natural and unaffected than that
of her colleagues.
Maurice Jenness for the negative,
after dealing with some Of the points
advanced by previous speakers, took
up the question If undeveloped re-
sources in the United States and with
the aid of compar alive and statistical
charts showed the vast possibilities
for development in agricultural, min
eral and manufacturing lines. One
of his charts showed that the total
population of Great Britain, France
| and Germany could be put into three