APPENDICES

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QUESTIONS FOR DEBATE

HE following questions in the various fields of politics, economics, sociology, education, law, history, and current events have been tested, for the most part, in class exercises. It will often be found advantageous to limit general propositions to a particular locality or State.

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

1. A young man casting his first vote at the next Presidential election should vote for the candidate of the party.

2. The discrimination against the Chinese, in our immigration laws, is unjustifiable.

3. The Chinese-exclusion law should be extended to the Japanese.

4. The white citizens of the Southern States are justified in taking all peaceable measures to insure their political supremacy.

5. Negroes should neither be enlisted nor commissioned in the United States Regular Army.

6. The Australian ballot system should be generally adopted in the United States.

7. Government by commission, similar to that of Galveston, Texas, should be generally adopted by the cities of the United States.

8. The business-manager plan of city government, similar to that of Dayton, Ohio, should be generally adopted by the cities of the United States.

9. The President of the United States should be elected for a term of six years and should be ineligible for re-election.

10. The several States should adopt the initiative and referendum.

11. The suffrage should require an educational qualification.

12. Women who pay taxes should have the right to vote at municipal elections.

13. The principle of the Kansas Industrial Court should be enacted into law by the several states.

14. Compulsory voting should be introduced by the various State governments.

15. Independent political action is preferable to party loyalty, as a means of securing reform.

16. The predominance of one political party in the Southern States is opposed to the best interests of those States.

17. The United States Government should operate an express system in connection with the parcel post. All postmasters should be elected by popular vote of the communities that they serve.

18. A nation advanced in civilization is justified, in the interests of humanity at large, in enforcing its authority upon an inferior people.

19. The United States Government is unsuited to the administration of colonial dependencies.

20. The Indian-agency system of the United States Government should be abolished.

21. The United States should maintain a larger navy. 22. Conditions demand a further centralization of power in the Federal Government.

23. In actual practice, a "liberal construction" of the United States Constitution has always proved beneficial.

24. The United States should resist by force if need be the colonization of South America by any European power.

25. So-called progressive measures; such as the Initiative, Referendum, and Recall are contrary to the spirit of the United States Constitution.

26. The annexation of Canada to the United States, if peaceably effected, would be to the best interests of both countries.

27. Cuba should be annexed to the United States as soon as practicable.

28. The United States should establish a protectorate over Mexico.

29. The deportation of all negroes in this country to one of our island possessions offers the best solution of the race problem.

30. The government of all cities in America should be modeled after that of Glasgow, Scotland.

31. The United States should permanently retain the Philippine Islands.

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ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY

32. The President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, should conclude reciprocity tariff treaties with foreign countries, along. lines prescribed by Congress.

33. The United States should exclude all immigrants who cannot read and write in some language.

34. Government in the United States should create

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commissions with power of compulsory arbitration of disputes between employers and organized labor.

35. The adjudication of disputes arising between capital and labor should be made a part of our administration of justice. Granted: (1) that labor unions may be forced to incorporate, if necessary, and (2), that courts of suitable rules of procedure be created, if desirable.

36. The taxation of the intangible assets of private corporations is desirable and practicable.

37. The United States Government should assume control of the anthracite coal-mines.

38. The National Government should co-operate with the various States, or civil subdivisions thereof, in the permanent improvement of public highways.

39. Consumers generally should organize to protect themselves against the exactions of labor unions and trusts.

40. Labor unions do not subserve the best interests of laboring men.

41. Members of labor unions are justified in resorting to the strike for preventing the employment of nonunion laborers.

42. Interference with strikes by judicial injunction is a menace to the liberties of the working classes. 43. Trusts should be suppressed.

44. The cities of the United States should own and operate their street-railway systems.

45. Each of the several States should have a civilservice law providing for the selection, by competitive examination, of all appointive officers other than heads of departments.

46. The time has now arrived when the policy of levying a purely protective tariff should be abandoned by the United States.