Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Mr. E. A. Harriman delivered the opening speech on the affirmative. Mr. Cleveland is entirely right, said he, in persisting in his steady opposition to the extravagant pension grants of our national Congress. We are liberal enough with our pensions already. Had the Dependent Pension bill become a law, it...
Mr. Reisner, on the negative, denied that the Dependent Pension bill would have involved an expenditure of $50,000,000 a year, for this would signify that there are now 300,000 Union soldiers who have sunk to the level of pauperism. It is at least as just as the...
Mr. Griffin opened the argument for the affirmative. The first object of the Republican party, said he, is to carry the national elections in 1888, and this can be done with the greatest certainty by nominating James G. Blaine for President. (Applause.) The speaker then traced the honorable course of...
Mr. Garrison, who opened for the negative, reminded the Union that Mr. Blaine had already undertaken to run for President, and had failed to carry the election. It devolves, therefore, upon the affirmative to prove that Mr. Blaine would be a desirable candidate for renomination. There are many thoroughly suitable...
By the way, what has become of that much agitated national foot-ball team which was to be sent abroad in the interest of American college sports by that fast developing institution? On the whole, perhaps, the quadrangular league sounds well enough as it is. - Yale Courant.