¦Vol. XVIII Waterville , Me. , April 28, 1915 No. 24 Gj |PUBLISHED
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At Orono, in the Chapel of Alumni The Colby debating teams won a double Hall, our negative team—Paul F. Fraser, victory over the University of Maine, on '15, Carroll B. Flanders, '17, and Albert Wednesday, April 21, discussing the ques- D. Gilbert, '15—gained a unanimous de- tion : Resolved, that in cities of twenty- cision over Maine's affirmative team—¦ five thousand and over, in the "United Frark C. Ferguson, '18, John H. Magee, States, a tax upon land alone should be '18, and Harry E. Rollins, '16. Here substituted for the present real property President Aley presided and the judges, HAROLD STERLING CAMPBELL, '15 PAUL FREDERICK FRASER, '15 of Ashland of Dorchester, Mass; tax, the substitution to be gradual and were : Dr. David N. Beach of Bangor, completed within ten years. Arthur L. Thayer, Esq., of Bangor, and At Waterville, in the College Chapel, Principal George H. Larrabee of Bangor. our affirmative team—Harold S. Camp- The question debated, one can see, is bell, '15 > Claude A. LaBelle, '17 , and A. nothing if not specific. Now a specific Raymond Rogers, '17—gained a two to question is usually a technical question, one decision over Maine's negative team— which means that the debaters couldn't Walter C. Jones, 17 , Albert W. Wunder- assume much knowledge on tye part of lich, '18, and Carl Magnus, '15. Here the audience, and this made the work of Professor Thomas B. Ashcraft presided, interesting and holding the audience all and the Honorable John A. Morrill of Au- the harder. Likewise the question is one burn, Mr. Roland T, Patten of Skowhe- on which the average person hasn't any decided opinion, and so the debaters didn't emphatically as third speaker in rebuttal. j have any very deep-rooted prejudices to Colby's second speaker, Mr. LaBelle, 1 meet. But for all this there was a de- after giving a much needed definition of | cided burden of proof. The affirmative "ground rent," began to develop in very J found itself in the position of proposing general terms certain advantages of the If and defending a definite reform, a reform land tax, that it would stimulate business | hedged about with qualifications. They by forcing all real estate holders to im- 1 had to show not only that some reform in prove their land, that it could not possi- 1 taxation is desirable, but that this par- bly be shifted to the tenant, and that it 1 ticular reform in taxation is desirable ; in would largely check speculation in. land. J other words, they had to. shoulder a fairly It may be remarked in passing that Mr. j heavy burden of proof. LaBelle's second point was the only gen- | One might gather as much from a eral statement made in the debate that I wsI ALBERT DAME GILBERT 1 , '15 CARROLL BENJAMIN FLANDERS, '17 | of Methuen, Mass. of Skowhegan | i, glance at the question , but in any case Mr. passed quite unchallenged during the | Campbell's opening speech for the affir- evening. Mr. Rogers, as third speaker, I mative would have made the point evi- tried to show that a land tax would help | dent. After clearing the way for con- to lower rents and would solve the hous- S structive work by explaining that the ing problem. Plis task, perhaps, was the 1 affirmative did not intend to claim too hardest on the affirmative side. I much, Mr. Campbell dwelt on the central In contrast to Colby's general line of I argument for the affirmative , that society argument, Maine's negative team used 1 has a right to appropriate land values, be- quotations and statistics very freely ; their | cause such values are created entirely by arguments were on the whole more de- 1 society. This proposition, abstract as it tailed and complex. Only Mr. Jones, in 1 is, was really the mainstay of their case, opening the discussion for his side, devot- | and Mr. Campbell chose to repeat it very ed himself to the broader aspects of their | case, arguing that authorities on taxation other points, they sub-mitteld that there was are not demanding this particular reform no assurance that rents would be lowered in the present system and that other under the proposed scheme, that specula- things beside land owe their value to the tion in land is not after all very general , presence of population. But Mr. Wun- that by certain reforms which they pro- derlich, with his rapid delivery and abun- posed the present system of taxation dant supply of material, got an elaborate could be remedied without any radical argument into his twelve minutes and change in policy. Colby did not have so went into detail about home-builders and much material to present, or at any rate slums ; not only did he argue that taxa- did not present so much. If the affirma- tion has nothing to do with the slum pro- tive had tried to meet point by point all blem but he attempted to show what is the contentions of the negative they would the cause of the problem, and how it have had time for nothing else. The CLAUDE ARCHER LaBELLE, '17 ALBERT RAYMOND ROGERS, '17 of Concord, N. H. of Waterville might be solved, and so forth. Likewise period of five minutes allowed each man Magnus length ¦ Mr. dwelt at on the effect for rebuttal doesn't give a prudent de- the land tax would have upon the distri- bater opportunity to wander very far bution of manufacturing plants ; he tried afield. What our team did was to work to show that under the proposed tax in- hard on a few points that could be clearly dustries would naturally migrate to the and vigorously stated in the time at their larger cities, since in such locations their disposal. For example, in answer to buildings and equipment would go tax- Maine's repeated demands that they show free. the defects in the present system of taxa- On rebuttal Maine was the more active, tion, Colby simply produced one vigorous at least in the sense of introducing new and authoritative quotation. material, and did some comprehensive It was in manner of presentation and in though not very vigorous work. Among delivery that Colby excelled. If a good point in theory is a debater's opportunity, took up the land tax as a fiscal device, the fact remains that it takes good plat- that is, discussed it from the point of view form work to grasp that opportunity. of the official who is simply trying to get No abundance of ideas can make up for revenue for the government in the best failure to "put ideas across" in the rough possible way.