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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...league is that we are the great silver-producing nation of the world. Europe would have gold, the stable metal, but we should have one the maintenance of whose value depended on the faith kept by the other nations. By its interesting illustrations and several humerous hits of Dobyns' speech did much to enliven the debate which had become rather slow and ponderous...
...last speaker for Yale was Charles Heitler Studinski. He argued in a clear and convincing manner and his speech was frequently interrupted by applause. His chief point rested on the political disquietment which would follow the adoption of a monometallic policy by this country. The Republican party elected their president and maintained the principles of sound money last fall with the votes of those who disbelieve in gold monometallism and favor a bimetallic league. If then the Republicans should repudiate their platform they would at once arouse the flames of sectional and class jealousy. As a result the country...
...matters very little to us for our exports to silverusing countries amount to but a handful. In regard to the second claim, that falling prices are a result of the gold standard, he denied that they are an evil at all. He then devoted the rest of his speech to a careful analysis showing that this, the fundamental claim of the bimetallists is without foundation. Fall in prices has resulted merely from an immense but healthy growth in production. The debtor has not suffered, because there has been a constant rise in wages and money incomes. What would...
...Dorr's speech was extremely logical and took well with the audience...
Fletcher Dobyns '98, of Oberlin, O., will make the last speech for Harvard. He prepared for college at Oberlin Academy and later at Oberlin College. While there he was president of the leading debating society. Last fall Dobyns was president of the Intercollegiate Sound Money Democratic League and stumped the Middle States in its interest. In his freshman year he was alternate on the Yale debate and has twice been on winning teams against Princeton...