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...Freshmen have chosen to support the affirmative of the question for the interclass debate with the Sophomores on December 21. The question is as follows: "Resolved, That the productive industries of the United States will be benefited by legislation securing immediate reciprocity with Canada...
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...arbitrate reasonably; all the best evidence of the authorities show the growth of conciliatory methods. The affirmative has quoted special instances of disregard of the rights of the community; but by these special instances of mistakes the attention of the public has been the more directed to the great question. The negative has shown that trade-unionism has been has shown that trade-unionism has been a great necessity; and that its evils have not been comparable with the evils of other great movements of history making for the progress of civilization and the best interests of a people...
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...
...debate last evening on the question, "Resolved. That the recent acquisition by the Northern Securities Company of a Majority of the Shares in the Northern Pacific and Great Northern Railway Companies was a violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act," was won by J. G. Brackett 3L., and A. J. Wyseman 3L., for the negative from F. H. Stinchfield 2L., and W. L. Robinson 1L., the speakers on the affirmative. The critic of the evening was Hon. F. W. Dallinger '93. The next meeting of the club will be in the Assembly Room of the Union on Thursday, December...