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'Vcz Heel. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA. HO A K I) OK KDITOHS, N. W. Walker, L. L. Parker, - Editor-in-Chief . Man. Editor, ASSOCIATE EDITORS. N. R. Graham, Lectures. n. v. Stewart, ) L.S.Holt, J. K. Wilson, Locals T.J. Gold - - -W. E. Pharr - - - Athletics. - FSusiness Manager, Ass't Business Man. Published every Saturday by the General Athletic Association. Entered in the Postoffice at Chapel Hill, N. 0. , as second-class matter. j ' Subscription Price. $1.50 per Year. i Payable in advance or during first term. Single Copies. 5 Cents. Heel will appear on June (th giving a full account of our commencement exercises, etc. In addition to this it will contain brief reviewsof this year's work in athletics and in the several departments of the Univer sity, and of the year's work in gen eral. We i i r in 1 y be 1 i e ve this h as been the most successful year in the history of this institution and we shall produce the facts to prove it. You had better see the business manager- before you leave the Hill and order a few extra copies of The Tar Heel to be sent to your friends. All communications for this paper should be in the hands of the Editor-in Chief b.y Wednesday at noon to insure publication the same week. We shall be glad to publish pertinent discussions of college topics. The Tar Heel will welcome news items, and hopes the whole" college will aid it alongthis line. We owe our subscribers and friends an apology for holding back this issue of The Tar Heel, but we trust a word or two will suffice to explain its tardiness and to justify us in this act. As this will be our last issue before commencement we deemed it advisable to hold the pa per over until this week in order to publish an account of the Johns Hopkins-Carolina debate and also an account of the Georgetown game. We wish to call the attention of our readers to an article in this is sue relative to the prospective Y. M. C. "A. Building,' and to endorse the earnest efforts put forth by the present management towards sup plying this long-felt need of more room and better equipment for Y. C. A.' purposes. These young men are deserving of great praise for their earnestness and untiring labor in this matter and they have the best wishes of us all for the suc cess of this noble project. We may add here that, by request, The Tar Heel editors have willing ly consented to turn the paper over to the Y. M. C. A., after our com mencement issue, and let them print a special Y. M. C. A. edition, giving an account of the great work the Y. M. C. A. is doing at the Uni versity and setting forth their needs, plans, etc. This special edition will appear about June 13. As .we announced sometime ago, Mr. Sidney Lee, of England, will lecture in Gerrard Hall this evening; on "Shakspere's Life Work." Mr. Lee is best known, perhaps, as edi tor of the D.ctionary of National Biographv. He is also known to students by his Life of William Shakspere, by his recent authorized Life of Queen Victoria, and by other writings. Since he has been in this country.he has lectured at the great est universities in the North and West. His 'visit here, however, is his only southern engagement.. Let no lover of Knglish literature, no admirer of the world's greatest dramatist fail to hear this tamous scholar who is the world's reco nized authority on Shakspere. Let us urge you again not to for get that a double issue of The Tar Record for 4 Days. N. C. 10, Va. 3. N. C. 15, Va. 15. N C. 13, W. & L. 1 N. C. 13, G. U. 4. 51 Runs, 57 Hits. 5 Home Runs. 7 Errors. N. C. Wins ,1. H. U. Debate. The Hopkins Debate. (Continued from 1st Page.) pursuing and the results we are obtaining justify our faith. The next speaker was Mr. S. S. Robins, of North Carolina. Mr. Robins made telling use of his open ing five minutes by a splendid rebut tal ol the argument of his preceding opponent. Then he seemed to lose himself in the fray and began a propounding of the question that was consistent in every detail, logi cal in entire. It was indeed the genuine speech of a gifted debater. A synopsis of Mr. Robins' speech is given below: The modern conception of society is that it is not an aggregation of loose and independent units but an organism and government is the ex ponent of this organism. It stands for the people as a unit and conse quently any general interest of the people must be an object of care to it. Although refusing to run this idea into socialism we have consist ently carried it out. Public schools, government ownership, tariff and trust legislation etc. bear witness to this. Among other things in carrying out this conception, our government has taken an active interest in our industrial life, encouraging a sym metrical development of its three divisions, agriculture, manufactur ing or transportation. It has en couraged agriculture by establish ing agricultural col leges and exper iment stations; manufacturing bv protection; on the side f trans portation our railways by enor mous direct subsidies, our domes tic shipping by giving it monopoly r i g h t s a n d our m e r e h a n t m a r A i e I y protective duties in its early his tory. In every case we have been repaid a hundred-fold. From our merchant marine the aid was withdrawn; changing con ditions destroyed it and today it is practically dead. At the same time the demand for a marine of our own is infinitely greater than ever before. We are becoming a com mercial people and must build up our marine for the sake of having our commerce under our own con trol, for the sake of business rela tions with the world's markets and for the sake of best and cheapest service when our marine is once es tablished. We must have a marine in the second place because a nation with world-interests to protect and sustain must be a maritime nation. ;.nd a marine is the. first element of maritime power. Our marine being then distinctly a national interest, and being in its present condition the logical appli cation of the American idea and of a policy tested and tried demands that our government perform its part setting the merchant marine inion its feet again. Private enter- orise has shown itself helpless. We cannot afford in the fact of such a necessity to substitute an inactive for an active policy, and since the only means of carrying out the American idea of government is soltsidv. we must subsidize. If ' " ------ y j our policy has been success (ul and our aid repaid a huudred-lold in the past we have every reason to be lieve the same will hold for the fu ture.'" Following Mr. Robins the con cluding speech for the affirmative was made by Mr, H. VV. Plagge meyer, of Hopkins. Though his speech, on the first round, covered only' ten minutes it was a great effort. This speech, with his fif teen minutes rejoinder, won him the judges' decision for the best speech of the debate. We give a brief outline of his argument: We can know the results of sub sidies only by recalling our past ex perience. The Collins Line was subsidized and recklessness, prodi gality and corruption resulted Government aid paralyzes individual thrift. The friends of subsidies have argued that commerce will be increased by granting subsidies. But during the Pacific mail and the Brazilian subsidies the commerce with the countries to which these lines ran actually diminished. Com merce does not follow the flag but follows self-interest. Foreigners will buy from us if we are able to produce cheaper than others and not because we pay millions to ship owners. The American shipping industry is one of the greatest in this coun try. It employs thousands of men, American shipyards now have con tracts aggregating $150, 000,000. It is true thai the American laborer receives more wages, but it be cause he is more efficient. Mr. Cramp has asserted that the differ ence in wages is more than overcome by the economic superiority of the American mechanic. The granting ol subsidies i the signal for corruption. When the Pacitic Mail Company asked for an increase in subsidy it was discovered that part of the original subsidy had been spent to secure the addi tional subsidy. Corruption had stalked abroad in the halls of Con gress. What happened Once may happen again, flighty per cent, of the world's trade" is carried in Kng lish trampsteamers which have never received one cent of subsidy. Subsi dies are a good thing for ship-builders, but not for the people. With abiding faith in the shrewdness, the foresight, and the commercial sagac ity of the American people we rest our cause, confident that the asser tion we have made can neither be denied nor controverted. The closing speech was made by Mr. R. O. Everett. Like Mr. Rob ins, Mr. Kverett proved himself apt in rejoinder and made very effective use of his opening minutes in direct rebuttal. He followed this up with a fine speech, delivered with ease and force one leaving a deep im pression of the earnestness of his words and revealing a diligent study of the practical side of the question. It was a twin brother to Mr. Rob ins' speech in every way. Mr. Kverett said in part: Although the American peo ple constitute but 18 per cent, of the human race, yet they pro duce 25 per cent, of the raw matc- rinl ;md 33 ner cntit of -ill n. 1 i - ' me tirim factured goods. Or in other i 7 uih. uiii'1 i'i mi 1 1 Liu product' must be disposed of in foreign ''n mi .... n11 mar kets. 1 ins condition mal.-,... ., world's markets of vital im porta, 7 to our future development. ' Kv lhe marine now as tin? u-,Vf agent for facilitating foreign trad becomes an absolute necessi't'' Yet we have no marine yV ' cent, of our $2,500,000,000 f(r trade must be carried in vessel" owned and operated by our I'orc'! competitors. At a time when If demands for a marine are greatr"" by reason of our great -surplus,' th' marine is actually in a more decn-,,1 it condition than ever before. As a result of these discordant conditions, the American prtl,i are subjected to cost and danrerse which national prudence and -0I,. omy should forbid. First, S300. 000, 000 is paid ,mt nuaily in freights. Second" three nations carry 80 per cent, of our c ommerce, and in case of conflict among thes. powers American com merce would be aprev to the .;... of either side. Our development in foreign nations is checked bv the o-r. cost and longer time of transit to which our products are subjected. Fourth, Political instvnrhv case of war. No na tion can be a strong naval power unless it has as a basis ol this strength a vigorous merchant marine, to furnish J,;,,. aud men in time of war. These four conditions create an immediate demand tor a marine. :ni,i as my colleague has shown that it is the policy and function of the government to supply the national needs, it becomes here the dutv of the government to aid the marine. Now there are only two wavs for the government to aid. First, bv discriminative duties, but this is impracticable by reason ol the ex istence of 33 treaties; and secondly, subsidies. This last method is the logical form of 'governmental aid. and the only one, by which the for eign advantages can be effectively overcome, and thus place the Amer ican citizen on equality with the world. 1 his is all that is necessary to be done, as we have every other requisite for being a great mari tim power, the capital, the mate rial and the demand. If the government subsidizes the marine, we will have a symmetrical development ol our economic foiw. The American 'People will not pro duce the material, manufacture the material, transport the linished product to the sea-board, and then trust .to competitors to place the roods on the markets of the world. but the mechanism will be couiplet 3 u u a u PQ a if nO rti4 13 o W I) J3 -) -a . o r. 0 -' h n w V 1 x U3 u (A in o o in J a rf) 0 0 V 1 u u o B 3 O x X! 3 rt 3 O H a H it) S 0 in u T Xl q 1 53 eg u
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