University Debaters' Annual Volume 5 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...trade. If it is winter here, probably in some other part of the world they will need summer clothes. Honorable Judges, Ladies, and Gentlemen, with this we rest our case. We have shown, I think, that if we could admit the wisdom of governmental action along the line suggested by the Affirmative, that action should come from local state and city governments. It is out of the jurisdiction of the Federal government. We have shown that in theory the plan is wrong and would be disastrous to labor, to capital, and to society as a whole, and finally we have shown that it does not touch the underlying cause of unemployment, and unless bolstered by methods, which if adopted alone would solve the problem, it would fail. We have shown that the real solution is to create a demand for goods, and how the growing demand for goods would not only put the man to work but would make him an independent creature. My friends, the laboring man today is not looking for a mere job. He is looking for an opportunity to live, and grow and develop--an opportunity to be a man. And only the plan which we have suggested, which is a common sense plan, and a workable plan, can solve the problem of labor unrest. FIRST NEGATIVE REBUTTAL Louis F. D'Elia, Stanford Worthy Opponents, Ladies, and Gentlemen: There seems to be a little misunderstanding this evening, a quibbling over the term "surplus labor." The Affirmative have said that it means that labor which industry can not induct into its various branches. And we are also told that the term "surplus labor" is a synonym for the term "unemployed," and means those who are able to work, willing to work, and unable to secure work. Surplus labor is that labor which industry is unable to take into its various branches--the men and women...