"Efforts to Promote Temperance since 1883," in L. B. Paton, _Recent
Christian Progress_, 446-71.
"Fight against Alcohol," _Cosmopolitan_, XLIV, 492-96, 549-54 (April,
May, 1908); _Harper's Weekly_, LII, 6-7 (April 25, 1908).
"Foreign Anti-Liquor Movements," _Nation_, LXXXVI, 230 (March 12,
1908).
"March of Temperance," _Arena_, XL, 325-30 (October, 1908).
"Social Conditions and the Liquor Problem," _Arena_, XXVI, 275-77
(September, 1006).
"Temperance Question," _Canadian M._, XXXII, 282-84 (January, 1909).
"Local Option Movement," _Annals of the American Academy_, XXXII,
471-5 (November, 1908).
"Results of a Dry Year in Worcester, Mass.," _Map Survey_, XXII, 301-2
(May 29, 1909).
"Local Option and After," _North American_, CXC, 628-41 (November,
1909).
"CAPITAL PUNISHMENT SHOULD BE ABOLISHED"
_Affirmative_
I. Capital punishment does not accomplish the purpose for which it is
intended.
II. Capital punishment is inconsistent with the teachings of modern
criminology.
III. There are other methods of punishment far more beneficial than
the death penalty.
_Negative_
I. Capital punishment decreases crime.
II. The cruelty of capital punishment has been greatly exaggerated.
III. Society has found no crime deterrent so powerful as the death
penalty.
BRIEF BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Does Capital Punishment Prevent Convictions?" _Review of Reviews_,
XL, 219-20 (August, 1909).
"Does Capital Punishment Tend to Diminish Capital Crime?" _Harper's
Weekly_, L, 1028-29; _Review of Reviews_, XXXIV, 368-69 (1909).
"Meaning of Capital Punishment," _Harper's Weekly_, L, 1289 (September
8, 1906).
"Plato on Capital Punishment," _Harper's Weekly_, L, 1903 (December
29, 1906).
"Should Capital Punishment Be Abolished?" _Harper's Weekly_, LIII, 8
(July 3, 1909).
"Whitely Case and Death Penalty," _Nation_, LXXXIV, 376-77 (April 25,
1907).
"Death Penalty and Homicide," _American Journal of Sociology_, XVI,
88-116 (July, 1910); _Nation_, VIII, 166; _North American_, CXVI, 138;
_ibid._, LXII, 40; _ibid._, CXXXIII, 534; _Forum_, III, 503; _Arena_,
II, 513.
"Capital Punishment and Imprisonment for Life," _Nation_, XVI, 193.
"Capital Punishment Anecdotes from Blue Book," _Ecl. M._, LXVI, 677.
"Capital Punishment Arguments Against," _Nation_, XVI, 213.
"Capital Punishment by Electricity," _North American_, CXLVI, 219.
"Capital Punishment: Case Against," _Fortnightly Review_, LII, 322;
same article in _Eclectic Magazine_, CXIII, 518.
"The Crime of Capital Punishment," _Arena_, I, 175.
"Failure of Capital Punishment," _Arena_, XXI, 469.
"Why Have a Hangman?" _Fortnightly Review_, XL, 581.
"Punishment of Crimes," _North American_, X, 235.
APPENDIX VI
A LIST OF DEBATABLE PROPOSITIONS
SCHOOL QUESTIONS
Many of these, because of their local application, will be found
useful for class practice where time for preparation is necessarily
limited.
1. Coeducation in colleges is more desirable than segregation.
2. Textbooks should be furnished at public expense to students in
public schools.
3. The adoption of the honor system in examinations would be desirable
in American colleges.
4. Final examinations as a test of knowledge should be discontinued in
X---- High School (or college).
5. All American universities and colleges should admit men and women
on equal terms.
6. The national government should establish a university near the
center of population.
7. The X---- College (or High School) should adopt courses which more
definitely fit students for practical careers.
8. Intercollegiate football does not promote the best interests of
competing schools.
9. Intracollegiate athletic contests would be a desirable substitute
for intercollegiate athletics.
10. Secret societies should be prohibited in public high schools.
11. National fraternities do not promote the best interests of
American-colleges and universities.
12. A college commons would be a desirable addition to X---- College.
13. A lunchroom should be established in the X---- High School.
14. Athletic regulations should not debar a student from playing
summer baseball.
15. No student in an American college should be eligible to compete in
intercollegiate athletics until he has begun his second year's work.
16. All studies in the X--- College (or High School) above those of
the Freshman should be entirely elective.
17. In all public high schools training in military tactics should be
required.
18. Public high schools should be under state supervision.
19. Admission to American colleges should be allowed only upon
examination.
20. Academic degrees should be given only upon state examinations.
21. The library of X--- College (or High School, or city) should be
open on Sunday.
22. A plan of self-government should be adopted for the X--- College (or
High School).
23. The terms "successful" and "failed" as the only indication of
grade work should be adopted by the X--- School in place of the
present plan or working.
24. Gymnasium work should be required in X--- School.
25. Training in domestic science should be required of all girls at
X--- School.
26. Manual training should be a requirement of all boys at X---
School.
SOCIAL QUESTIONS
27. The influence of the five-cent theater is beneficial.
28. A state board with power to forbid public exhibition should
exercise stage censorship.
29. Children under sixteen years of age should be prohibited from
working in confining industries.
30. Children under fourteen years of age should be prohibited from
appearing on the stage.
31. A minimum wage for women employees of department stores should be
enacted by the state of X---.
32. Public ownership of saloons would be a desirable method of dealing
with the liquor problem.
33. The English system of old-age pensions should be adopted by the
United States government.
34. Vivisection should be prohibited by law.
35. The publication of court proceedings in criminal and divorce cases
should be subject to a board of censorship.
36. Education under the direction of a state board, should be required
in the state prisons of X---.
37. The laws of marriage and divorce should be uniform throughout the
United States (constitutionality conceded).
38. Local option is the best method of dealing with the liquor
question.
39. The army canteen is desirable.
40. A system of compulsory industrial insurance should be adopted by
the state of X---.
41. An eight-hour law for all women workers should be enacted by the
state of X---.
42. Immigration should be restricted according to the provisions of
the Dillingham-Burnett bill.
43. Free employment bureaus should be established by the city of X---.
44. Free employment bureaus should be established by the state of
X---.
POLITICAL QUESTIONS
45. A permanent national tariff commission should be established.
46. The constitution should be so amended as to make more easy the
passing of amendments.
47. The restrictions on Mongolian immigration should be removed.
48. The President of the United States should serve one term of six
years.
49. Complete public reports of all contributions to political
campaign funds should be required by law.
50. The Monroe Doctrine as a part of American foreign policy should be
discontinued.
51. The interests of labor can best be represented by a separate
political party.
52. The naturalization laws of the United States should be made more
stringent.
53. Aliens should be forbidden the ballot in every state.
54. The state of California is justified in her stand against land
ownership by aliens.
55. Permanent retention of the Philippine Islands by the United States
is not advisable.
56. The United States navy should be maintained at a fighting strength
equal to any in the world.
57. Direct presidential primaries should be a substitute for the
present method of presidential nomination.
58. Corporations engaged in interstate business should be compelled to
operate under a national charter.
59. The Panama Canal should be fortified.
60. The initiative and referendum in matters of state legislation
would be desirable in the state of X----.
61. From the standpoint of the United States the annexation of Cuba
would be desirable.
62. The fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States
should be repealed.
63. The President should be elected by the direct vote of the people
of the United States.
64. Proportional representation should be adopted in the state of
X----.
65. The plan of proportional representation in present vogue in the
state of X---- should be abolished.
66. The use of voting machines should be required in all elections in
cities having a population of more than 10,000.
67. Public interest is best served when national party lines are
discarded in municipal elections.
68. Suffrage should be limited to persons who can read and write.
69. Ex-Presidents of the United States should become senators-at-large
for life.
70. Ex-Presidents of the United States should be pensioned for life at
full salary.
71. The United States should adopt a plan of compulsory voting.
72. The national government should purchase and operate the express
systems in connection with the parcel post.
73. Federal judges should be elected by direct vote of the people.
74. Two-thirds of a jury should be competent to render a verdict in
jury trials in the state of X---.
75. The state of X--- should adopt a plan for recall of state judges.
76. The state of X--- should adopt a plan allowing a referendum of
judicial decisions.
77. The appointment of United States consuls should be under the merit
system.
78. American vessels engaged in coastwise trade should be permitted
the use of the Panama Canal without the payment of tolls.
79. All postmasters should be elected by popular vote.
80. The bill requiring ----, which is at present before the X--- city
council (X--- state legislature, or Congress) should be defeated.
ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL QUESTIONS
81. The Underwood tariff bill of 1913 would be a desirable law.
82. The federal government should undertake at once the construction
of an inland waterway from the Great Lakes to the Gulf (or from X to
Y).
83. All raw materials should be admitted to the United States free of
duty.
84. A state law should prohibit prison contract labor in the state of
X---.
85. Federal government control of all natural resources would be
desirable.
86. Municipal ownership of street railways would be an advantage to
cities.
87. The Henry George system of single tax would be practicable in the
United States.
88. A graduated income tax would be a desirable addition to the
federal taxing system.
89. The boycott is a justifiable weapon in labor strikes.
90. The federal government should enact a progressive inheritance tax.
91. The coal mines of the United States should be under federal
control.
92. Employers of labor are justified in demanding the "open shop."
93. Irrigation projects to reclaim the arid lands of the West should
be undertaken by the United States government.
94. Courts for the compulsory settlement of controversies between
labor and capital should be created by Congress.
95. Industrial combinations commonly known as "trusts" are an
economical benefit to the United States.
96. The United States should establish and maintain a system of
subsidies for the American merchant marine.
97. No tax should be levied on the issue of state banks.
98. Permanent copyrights should be extended by the national
government.
99. The judicial injunction as an instrument in labor controversies
should be made illegal.
100. A law gradually lowering the present tariff, so that in ten years
the United States will be committed to a policy of free trade, would
be economically desirable for the United States.
APPENDIX VII
FORMS FOR JUDGES' DECISION
The first of the two following forms is a simple and commonly used
one; the second is more formal and is desirable when the schools wish
to point out carefully the principles upon which the decision is to be
based. A form such as the first, which allows the judge entire
freedom, is becoming the more popular.
I.
In my opinion, the better debating has been done by the
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II
JUDGES' DECISION
[In rendering a decision, the judges are asked to act without
reference to their own opinion on the merits of the question. They are
not to consider that either contesting party necessarily represents
the actual attitude of themselves or of their school. They are to act
without consultation. A decision is desired based solely on the
quality of debating.
In determining the quality of debating, the judges are asked to
consider both matter and form. Grasp of the question, accuracy of
analysis, selection of evidence, and order and cogency of arguments
should be considered in judging matter. Bearing, voice, directness,
earnestness, emphasis, enunciation, and gesture should be considered
in judging form.]
DECISION
Considering the above instructions, I cast my ballot for the
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