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Answering for Harvard, Wagner said that the affirmative rested its case on the absolute right of a European nation to have a decision of the Hague tribunal enforced, since the tribunal has considered all the circumstances of the case. The wedge, which the negative fears, will be split, because the South American republics will become aroused to national responsibilities. Replying to the proposal of temporary holding, he cited England's occupation in Egypt which has resulted practically in permanent control. They say it would be a chance for Germany to get a basis for military operations, but presented to Americans...
...there is a danger to be contemplated by the United States under the presuppositions of our question. It is the danger of an immediate and unjust war with the European nation with whose just and legal rights the negative is arguing that the United States interfere. In 1896 we were in imminent danger of war with England when we merely insisted upon arbitration. Under our facts tonight the arbitration has taken place. The European government has chosen a legal and precedented method of satisfying its arbitrated claims. It would resent an unjustifiable interference on our part with its full naval...
...question itself. By the terms of this question simply the conditions at the time of the default are given. But, if we are to make this a practical debate, evidently the fact that there is no tariff at the time of default does not prevent the creditor nation from levying a tariff. This tariff might be imposed by the creditor nation, or by a trustee. In China, an Englishman, Sir Robert Hart, acting as trustee, has for many years successfully administered a tariff. This method would be effective even if the debtor state had no money at the time...
...that it would subvert rather than further the cause of arbitration; that it would involve injustice and oppression toward the South American republics; that in every case it means actual war. It has been further shown that the very money award may be collected without actual war; that no nation should take this expensive method of satisfying a debt unless the land were desired for an entering wedge and lastly that the practical difficulties and serious consequences would be so great as to threaten the very existence of the South American republics and inevitably to draw the United States into...
...opening the rebuttal for the negative, said that we have interfered in the past. Would any nation risk a war to collect a few paltry dollars which it could collect in many other ways? In replay to the isolation of the territory seized, we say that not only England but all the European powers would obtain footholds and we would soon see the extinction of the republics. If one nation retains land others will; and so the land in South America will all be acquired by European nations with danger to the United States...