Word: clears
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There are in fact no evils which require a revolution in our standard of value. On the contrary our financial system has worked badly only when there has been talk of changing it. Wrightington spoke in a clear, convincing manner, and was very coherent in his argument...
...production constantly change be kept at a fixed ratio? The very treaty formed to maintain a ratio might be broken by war. Can our opponents stand sponsors for the peace of Europe? Such a danger as this, when at best the advantages of bimetallism are problematical, make it clear that our present evils must be very great to justify such a leap in the dark. But that no such evils exist is proved by the immense economic prosperity of the past thirty years and what business troubles there are have been in no way due to the currency...
...third speaker for Harvard was Fletcher Dobyns '98. He began by a concise and clear analysis of the question at issue, saying that the only question was as to the relative merits of the gold and the bimetallic standards. Any ratio which the negative could offer would fail. If the ratio adopted were 16 to 1, this would be an attempt to double the value of silver by government fiat. Whatever the ratio, business men would prefer gold to silver, because the former is certainly stable. Business domands certainty as to the future. How could it be shown that some...
...last speaker for Yale was Charles Heitler Studinski. He argued in a clear and convincing manner and his speech was frequently interrupted by applause. His chief point rested on the political disquietment which would follow the adoption of a monometallic policy by this country. The Republican party elected their president and maintained the principles of sound money last fall with the votes of those who disbelieve in gold monometallism and favor a bimetallic league. If then the Republicans should repudiate their platform they would at once arouse the flames of sectional and class jealousy. As a result the country...
...closest ever held, as is shown by the fact that the judges were out twenty minutes before they came to a final decision. The speaking on both sides was of a very high order. The best all-round man for Yale was C. S. MacFarland, who delivered his clear-cut arguments in a careful and convincing manner. Clark was good in argument, but was at times almost inaudible. The same was true to some extent of Studinski, whose form, however, was for the most part good. In form Wrightington excelled for Harvard, while Dobyns was most convincing in argument...