Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Mayer '00 was the first speaker for Harvard. He said in part...
Wilbur Morse '00, for the affirmative, reiterated the grievances cited by Mayer and then emphasized the fact his colleague had brought out, that interference was necessary in the Transvaal and that it was England's right to interfere. The affirmative believed that the best method to settle the so-called grievances was the grant of an adequate franchise to the Uitlanders. Such a franchise meant security, strength and prosperity for the South African Republic itself. The grievances of the Uitlanders might well be summed up in the phrase "in equality of rights." Examples of this subversion of all interests...
Bruce, instead of Mayer, as was expected, opened the rebuttal for Harvard. He said that England did not bring on the war, since the Transvaal issued an ultimatum which no nation could stand, and since the condition of two-thirds of the people in the Transvaal was such as to bring on war in any case. There is no probability of a more peaceful attitude toward the Uitlanders in future, because the younger Boers are more hostile to them than the older men. The change was bound to come, and would have come by a revolution, if England...
...Mayer, the next on rebuttal for Harvard, called attention to the fact that during the whole debate the negative had not even defined suzerainty. As for this suzerainty, England has claimed no more than any other nation, that of protection to her subjects in a foreign land. The negative has not attempted to deny the presence of a civilizing power in the Transvaal, resulting from the presence of the English; and what is more, they admit that the grievances against the English are many. The people of the Transvaal, though they recognized the value of the English and invited them...