Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...third speaker for Harvard was Fletcher Dobyns '98. He began by a concise and clear analysis of the question at issue, saying that the only question was as to the relative merits of the gold and the bimetallic standards. Any ratio which the negative could offer would fail. If the ratio adopted were 16 to 1, this would be an attempt to double the value of silver by government fiat. Whatever the ratio, business men would prefer gold to silver, because the former is certainly stable. Business domands certainty as to the future. How could it be shown that some...
...MacFarland, Div., the first Yale speaker, claimed at the outset that Harvard had misinterpreted the question; that the real issue was for them to prove that the United States should adopt definitively the gold standard, and should once for all put themselves beyond the possibility of a change. He then went on to claim that this simply meant a continuance of all the unrest and disaster of the last twenty-five years...
...made his bes: point by quoting Professor Taussig to prove that bimetallism could be put into successful operation. "Of the two objections to bimetallism proposed by Professor Taussing," he said, 'the one is removed by the wording of the question, the other by actual facts." MacFarland spoke convincingly. His form was good, but a little too quiet...
...second Yale speaker, Charles Upson Clark, began by denying that the negative were urging higher prices; they merely wished steadier prices. The question was not of the relative merits of bimetallism and gold monometallism, but was solely as to whether the United States should at once and definitively adopt the single gold standard. This action, he maintained, would not restore but would destroy confidence, because it would be a surprise and would maintain the ills at present existing. The policy of the country for twenty years has been steadily tending toward international bimetallism. To change this policy would cause...
...speeches in rebuttal ended the debate. The Harvard speakers maintained as their chief point that their opponents were begging the question in ponents were begging the question in that they did not confine themselves to the question at issue nor did they show any possible way by which bimetallism could be put in force. It was Yale's position that the Harvard speakers if they maintained that gold monometallism was a product of evolution were in the wrong. That if they declared that what is virtually a gold standard here in the United States has been beneficial, they were mistaken...