Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-13
WON By LOCAL TEAM
GEORGE WASHINGTON VICTOR
IoUs OVER CINCINNATI.

Belasco Theater yesterday afternoon was
| the scene of an interesting debate between
| the University of Cincinnati and George
| Washington University, resulting in a vic
| tory for the Washington debaters. A large
audience was present, representative par
ticularly of law and judicial circles.
] The local debaters, who upheld the ques-
| ton affirming that the effect of capitalistic
| combinations called ti-sts is detrimental to
| the interests of the wage-earnfng classes
| were slated for victory from the beginning
| of the debate, It evident that the
| debaters from Cincinnati were unfortunate
| in having the negative of such problem
| notable thing was the entire lack OF
| partisanship. While the George Washington
| boys came in for their share of commenda-
| ton from their friends at the same time
| applause was generously bestowed on the
! visiting debaters. A contingent of Cincin-
nauans headed by Representative and Mrs.
| Nicholas Longworth, vociferously supported
| their home team.
The chairman was Representative Champ
| Clark of Missouri He opened the meeting
| by referring to the fact that he was a COM
petent authority on matters of debate. He
| further announced that the choice of Ques-
Ions fell upon the local university. while the
University of Cincinnati which had the
choice of sides, had elected to take the
negative.
The stage was admirably set for the pur-
pose, desks and pedestals giving 1t court
like appearance. c.. W. Whitmore. Louis
Cohen, F. D. Couden and A. c. Hindman
alternate, the George Washington debaters,
sat on the right of the stage, before desk
piled high with books of reference. The
Cincinnati men-Edward w. Pflueger, John
d. Ellis, Isaac Landman and Otto Krtp
pendorf alternate, were on the opposite
side. The center of the stage was occupied
by Representative Clark and the two time
keepers-Allen G. Flowers of this city and
Otto Krippendorf of Cincinnati.
The judges occupied seats in the audience,
They were Representative Charles E. Little
field of Maine, Prof. S. NJ. Lindsay, Uni
versty of Pennsylvania, and Prof. ]. H.
Hollander of Johns Hopkins University.
They were instructed not to confer In de-
Gliding on the winning team, but to write
their individual decisions on a slip of pa
per, seal them In envelopes and give them
to Representative Clark, who would read
the contents to the audience
Opened for Affirmative.
c. w. Whtmore of George Washington
University opened the debate for the af-
firmative He spoke for the allotted fifteen
minutes, and in contending that the trusts
are detrimental to the interests of the
wage-earn!ng classes, he supported his as
sertions by authority He maintained that
as the trust is a buyer Of labor, its object
Is to buy as cheaply as possible.
Edward w. Pfueger, first speaker for the
negative, declared that the trusts are not
monopo1ies, but legal creations of laws; a
combination of interests not to be de-
stroyed, according to the President, but to
be regulated
Louis Cohen. second speaker for the af-
firnlative, took up the subject on the same
principles as those of Mr.. Whitmore say
ing that the trust Is dangerous to the
wage-earners, not only as a producer, but
as consumer. He explained that each
raise In the wage-earner's salary by the
in thA
| price of its products He then praised the
| labor organizations, who had been the
means of forcing the ir ease In salaries.
John D. Ellis in CONT. uing for the mega
| tive, contended that the trusts have proved
| beneficial to the wage-earners. He COM
| pared the laboring classes of the years
prior to 1890 with the laboring classes of
| today. He gave statistical data
F. D. Couden, the last speaker for the
affirmative, attacked Mr.. Ellis statistics,
| saying that they are one of three kinds of
| lies. He assailed the trusts for their way of
| trying to buy the lawmakers for their
| benefit.
Isaac I.andman closed for the negative.
| He said that the trusts are not monopoies
but that if they were monopolles they were
| at liberty to sell their products for as
many dollars they are charging cents
John D. Ellis and c. w Whitmore spoke
| In rebuttal for about ten minutes. The lat
| ter maintained that the affirmative had
proved that the trusts were injurious to
| the wage-earners, rather than beneficial
| AS the last speaker took his seat Chair
man Clark asked the judges for their de-
! cisions. These were soon in his hands He
| opened the envelopes slowly, and then an
| nounced that the judges had unanimously
| decided in favor of the George Washington
University.
At this announcement the students of the
| victorious university applauded the win
ners, and ended with the university yell.
| AT the conclusion the speakers of the Gin
| cinnati team congratulated their adver-
| saries on their success.