The Daily Missoulian., 1913-04-19
MONTANA DEBATERS DEFEAT
TEAM FROM WASHINGTON
STATE COLLEGE.
MINIMUM WAGE DEBATED
Local Team UphoIds Proposition to
Adopt Minimum Wage for Factories,
Workshops and Department Stores
Victory Is Third in Three Years
Decision Of Judges Unanimous.

IT. S. Davis and G. e. Watkins las
night won for the university the
championship Of the northwest in de
bate with team composed of T.. ID
Vincent and G. p. Crockett, represent
ing Washington State college, located
at Pullman. Before a fairly large
crowd-but u crowd not half as large
as the occasion fneritea--the univer-
sity men put up a fight that simply
carried their opponents off their feet
The delivery Of the Montana men was
clear concise and logical, while tie
men from washington seemed Ill iii
ease and We're dazed by the terrific
onslaught of the university team
The decision of the judges award
ing the debate to the university was
unanimous. The judges We're f. e.
Day of Helena, r. A. OIfara Of Ham.
ilton and M. Fitzgerald Of Stevens
Vile. In giving the decision to Mon
tana the judges followed in the steps
of the judges of two preceding years
This Is the third consecutive time that
Montana has beaten Washington State
on the forensic platform. The decision
was based on delivery and the nofit
of the argument introduced. Also the
judges awarded Montana the cham
pionship of the northwest. This comes
from comparative scores, This team
which represented the Institution At
Puliam has beaten the team repre-
senting the University Of Washington.
| The University of washington boat
the University Of Oregon. Then tho
team from Washington State beat a
team from Whitman college. 1h5
University of Montana has also beaten
| the state agricultural college in Do
| bate AS these are the strongest col
leges in the northwest, the University
of Montana team, by beating tho
! Washington State college team, is now
| holder OF the northwest championship
! in debate.
The subject agreed upon for doba+e
was; "Resolved, That II minimua
wage, to be operative III factori5 -
workshops and department store
I should be established by law, constia
| tutonaiity granted" Montana do
| Tended the ALTERNATIVES. Too nuteh
cannot be given to Davis and Wal
| liins, the battlers for Montana. TheT
arguments and delivery showed thI
world of work that had to be put Qn
the subject, They left not IA book rn-
opened that would shed light on the
| subject. They quoted from soH.e
25 references and authorities. Then
argument was air. tight. They proved
the minimum wage a cure for stri1es
poverty and a means of having 4
right minded and healthy posterit&a
They told in a most convincing man
ner OF the success met with by coun
tries and states that had tried IL.
| minimum wage as a remedy for var
Gus kinds of social evils. \ln rebuttal
| the Montana men were eSpeclali@
| good. In this, the hardest part of the
art of debating, Davis and Watkins
| showed themselves masters. The ar
| guments of the negative were torn II
shreds and tossed about the hall in
| a helpless manner. Their opponents
could slip over nothing on them.
| Every argument Of the negative was
successfully refuted
But due credit must be given to this
Washington men. Both Vincent ana
Crockett proved to be 'foemen worthy
of their steel" Both are finished
speakers and showed that they ha3
had a lot of training and experience IN
! debate Their arguments We're good
! and more than once during the battl9
they struck fear to the hearts of the
most loyal of the university sup~
porters. However, their delivery lacked
fire and pep" In their argumentt
they contended that the minimum
wage looked toward an increase of In
desirable immigration; that it would
cause the already large army of uu-
employed to be increased and that tha
| minimum wage would become thh
maximum wage. However, these
logical arguments We're disproved ~
| iEnntinl1al DlS Gix