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...Costigan '92 continued the debate on the negative. He said that simply paying a man's poll tax was not sufficient to induce him to vote for any particular candidate. He ridiculed the idea that the poll tax was necessarily bad because it came down from feudal time. This qualification adds to the dignity of American citizenship. Its abolition would not diminish bribery but would tend greatly to increase it by increasing the corruption fund of the professional politicians. He thought that the abolition of the poll taxes as a requisite for voting would take away one of the greatest...
Principal Disputants, affirmative-S. C. Brackett, '91, A. E. Healy, '92; negative-A. S. Hayes, '91, G. P. Costigan...
Principal Disputants, affirmative-S. C. Brackett, '91, A. E. Healy, '92; negative-A. S. Hayes, '91, G. P. Costigan...
...Club for this year are as follows: President, W. M. Cole; Vice-President, George E. Wright L. S.; Secretary and Treasurer, R. L. O'Brien '91. The following new members have been elected: Graduates, Will, DuBois, Scott; from '91, Clow, M. Williams, Caffey, Dendall, Hill, Woodworth, Tallant; from '92, Costigan, S. Adams, Pierce, O. F. Hersley, E. B. Adams, Myers, Robbins, specials, Gregor, Hodder, L. K. Morse, Landon...
...Costigan '92 opened the debate for the affirmative. He claimed that the one result of this bill would be to secure justice to all. The debate for the negative was opened by F. B. Williams, L. S., who opposed the bill on the grounds that it is an attempt to transfer to the central government matters which he within the jurisdiction of the local authorities...