Word: suppress
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Ballantine opened the debate for Harvard. We of the negative, he said, stand for the protection of life and property as strongly as do the affirmative. But we contend that the means for suppressing violence are already adequate, and that the new power which the affirmative propose to grant to the President would be both unnecessary and undesirable. As the law now stands the President has absolute power to put down all violence which infringes national law, and the States have power to suppress violence infringing State law alone, not only by calling out State troops, but by calling upon...
Daniels was the second speaker for the negative. To justify the radical and far-reaching departure they are proposing, the affirmative, he said, must show an overwhelming necessity. The negative contend that they cannot show such a necessity because the existing means of suppressing domestic violence have proved fully adequate to the situation. There are at present three methods of suppressing domestic violence: first, the State may suppress the violence with its own forces; secondly, the State, if unable alone to restore order, may call upon the federal government for assistance; thirdly, when the violence immediately threatens the sovereignty...
Ballantine closed the Harvard rebuttal with the argument that in all the instances cited by the affirmative the States have asked for aid. The affirmative had failed, he said, to show that States were unable of themselves to suppress riot and violence, which is a fundamental of their case. It makes a great difference whether the President is to have power to enforce State laws or national laws. With the first he should not be allowed to interfere; over the second his control already is adequate...
...second negative speech, contended that the strict enforcement of the excise law and the closing of the saloons brought about violations of the law in a co-ordinate form which are just as illegal and even more pernicious in their nature than those which it is attempted to suppress. But, on the other hand, Mayor Low's policy of judicious enforcement, recognizing that the law is not enforceable strictly, is made necessary by forces actually at work in New York life. The first of them is the increased temptation to blackmail which strict enforcement would hold out to the police...
...with individuals, so it is with nations. The nation must overcome evil with good. Let us apply this principle to anarchy. We try to suppress it, we must do more, we must cure it. This can be done only by education -- by teaching the people that government is a necessity, that our government is the best form of government ever devised, and that they must make it so good that every citizen will die, if necessary, to preserve its blessings to posterity...