Word: evils
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...still very far from hopeless. The very fact that our form of government has thus far been a failure in the case of cities, has brought forward problems for the educated man to solve. He then showed that the great size of New York makes the combat against evil particularly interesting. Mr. Hinrichs then narrated the history of Brooklyn politics since 1881, as a good example of how upright men with high ideals have succeeded. He told how Mr. Low, a practically unknown man, became mayor of Brooklyn twice, although the city was normally of the opposite political party. After...
...affirmative contention to be proven valid, it must be shown that unionism in accomplishing its results used means evil in their nature and evil in their results. And this Weldy claimed, is the assertion of the affirmative...
...shown a tendency to repudiate this principle. It is essential that the public, as a third party, shall never be made unreasonably to suffer for a grievance between two other parties. Yet unions, for the past twenty years, in the zealous pursuit of their own ends, have forced the evil consequences of their embroglios, upon the entire public, interfering with business and threatening the general security of the public...
Binkerd, in rebuttal, said that although the negative have dwelt on the past of trade unionism the question is not one that calls for balancing past good results with past evil results. The discussion concerns a general tendency. Moreover, much of the good claimed by the negative came prior to the last twenty years. Furthermore all the industrial progress of those twenty years has not been due to trade unionism. The aims of unionism have been essentially selfish in disregarding the rights of the majority; and this is evidenced by strikes, boycotts and their attitude towards the courts. The affirmative...
Beede, in rebuttal, pointed out that the affirmative had confined itself to the history of unionism, dewelling more upon it than the negative and addressing concert evidence of evil where the negative had merely asserted good. The negative, he said, has been two optimistic in regard to general progress. The affirmative has shown by concrete arguments a general tendency of disregard for the rights of the community