The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-20
university wins
OVER COLORADO
However, One of the Judges
Votes for the Visiting
DebaterS.
FREE TRADE SYSTEM
is ABLY ADVOCATED
Fair Sized Audience Listens to
0ratOry at the Salt Lake
Theater.

The University of Utah debatcrs, CON
tending that the free trade system is
preferable to the present system Of pro-
tcctiyo tariff, won thoir debate with
Colorado college orators, who argued
for the negative of the question, 'Rc-
solved, that tariff should be imposed for
revenue only before Il fair audience
ut the Salt Lake thcatcr Wednesday
night.
The debate was not clean sweep for
the Utah team. however, as the Colo
rado men managed 10 obtain one OF the
votes. The Judges for the debate were
the Bishop Spalding, Prof, Twcezy and
Principal Eaton Of the Salt Lake high
school
Hugo Anderson opened the argument
for the affirmative in Il clcar-cul man.
ucr that showed the visiting team that
they had some good men TO meet, An
dcrson argued that . tariff for revenue
only would open wider and more un-
restricted trade and that this form of
commerce would be valuable TO tho ma
tion. He maintained that different
countries have different facilities for
producing certain articles and that by
the free bartcring between two nations.
each nation was benefited.
g. NJ. Rose, the first speaker of the
negative side, took up the history of
the several tariff bills that have been
passed, and showed how the ninglcy
bill. which succeeded the Mckinley bill,
had lost money for the government, and
that now the Payne bin was being
passed TO make up for these losses. He
showed why England had adopted free
trade and stated in conclusion that free
trade would never work in the United
States, unless all national lines were
abolished and one nation traded with
another just as the several states in
the unIon do.
Hartlcy's Contention.
Hartley. for the Affirmative. showed
how Il protective tariff had failed in
that one time the rcvonue provided
surplus and again Il deficit. He also
maintained that under n protective
tariff, too much profit goes TO private
corporations in comparison with the
amount received by the general gov
crnment, and as an example cited the
fact that while S2,0O0,000 was being
turned into the government treasury.
81 100000 profits was turned into the
beef and leather trust due TO the ac-
tion of the tariff.
The second speaker for the negative
II. W. Coil, was easily the strongest
man on the Colorado team. and made
some very strong points. Coil main
tanned that in order to have good
wages for the laboring classes in our
own country. VIC must protect our home
manufacturers or otherwise we should
have our markets flooded with the prod
ucts from foreign countries where wages
are much lower than they arc here.
Carlson, the last speaker on the Utah
team, discussed the question of the con
dttlon created in congress because of
the fact that under protective tariff
each section Of the country is working
for It's own interests and is fighting all
other sections. He stated that only the
big corporations and trusts arc repre-
scnted in the petitions to the committee
on ways and means. and that all see.
tIons of the country were not fairly rep
resented.
The final speaker ON the negative was
j. l., Calhoun. who argued that if con
gross should pass laws protecting the
American laborcr from the competition
of Chinese cmigrauts. il should surely
protect the laborcr from having TO com
pete with foreign manufactured Foods.
where the people bad to work for much
smaller wages than in our own country.
The debate as whole brings credit
to the team and speaks we'll for Dcbat
ing Coach Roberts. who has been train
ing the boys