Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...form of the Harvard debaters was most clearly shown. The Princeton speakers seemed more earnest in their delivery than in their opening speeches, but the summary of their case lacked coherence and there was an unfortunate tendency to irrelevant discussion. It was undoubtedly contrary to the wording of the question for debate to demand that the affirmative give one definite plan for greater restriction of immigration...
...Parke, following for the affirmative, restated the question, and said that it did not demand a specific remedy, but only a discussion of evils and an attempt to remedy them. The people from Southeastern Europe have not benefitted the country. They have overstocked the unskilled labor market and lowered the standard of living, especially in the mining regions where English-speaking miners have been forced into destitution and misery. The affirmative does not present a capitation or an educational test alone, but an alternative one which will allow skilled laborers to enter. This will satisfy the economic need...
Rosenthal closed the debate for Harvard. The question is not, he said, one of the practicability of any one method of restriction. The question is whether we have undesirable immigrants coming into our country whom it is impossible to exclude under the present laws...
...last Princeton speaker was Matthew Lowrie. He was anxious to emphasize his previous assertion that the negative were debating facts, not theories. The whole argument of the affirmative on the Canadian question, he said, was based on the assertion that there is no systematic investigation. We say that there is such an investigation and that the law gives the power to strengthen it whenever it is deemed necessary...
...fourth time in as many years, Harvard defeated Princeton in debate. The contest last evening was on the question: "Resolved, That the present restrictions on immigration into the United States are insufficient." The Harvard speakers supported the affirmative and Princeton the negative. The judges were out only three minutes and were unanimous in their verdict...