| Show 11 wm T t DEBATE E Boulder Boys Had Wrong End of Question and Were Some Somewhat Somewhat Somewhat what Handicapped PUT UP LiP A GALLANT FIGHT aker AUTO rl Well Prepared J lOll Handled ch Will Careful Well to 10 Detail The be wills of t f the gods d slowly i t they r tho the grist t on schedule 1 e last gh t the iQ brains of oC the lie if li L h Pea out cut o t the he stain eon of ot the bIlL ot of th thi tIm wa OD Ite I e i n a unanimous de deot e ot ic lf over Boulder In Bo r walloped the tho U of ot U 13 uon on tte foot COOL OOL i field fleU hut but did not wake I ch ft t lilo on the tie But arM il i t tan hl hui the c of oC tte tM u clue case or ot the Ihl PeO e U 1 l I and Ull i Monopoly DeD G W d t lh tera plumed their 11 P arni nd crowed In their own osin osinI I ail I t I the cor cur wn ai d ur eys from the tho Centennial fate WO so mangen in ii a strange land landa landu U a as th they were stra In tn these W un Jesters train rom lO IO r f K 0 r ovations at the tie 1 I I t I of ot the tho ne tUi Ui red rt white la f l fOil ALL LI WERE WEHE The theatT r was sVa etl Generally on O 0 ai Il 11 iL u IS I tin till lie doting facets Id cond m HI n Pr ot O student tu who com coin true pie mo U r portion lit of f tie audI act WH nn fib it t 1 these hold holdin in III of oC Hi tho ii at aLs antI high laces Icea came m ne near ner r i i ig K I ousted by prominent liters I I lets t I it i and ami Jobbers o oL of Halt Use Lu it Ii came to the railroad I 1 ui turned out rin Freight Agent j A teen of oC till Oreion Line Une doD doo olo to 10 Rw R IV i F ty 4 was there to a man luau manFrom From lira u i ia It t lie 1110 debate was fol tor torIO leJ IO N Wa it II rest by these experts In Ino o ni of at ti the inmost t problems that ever confronts co i 1 a administration l I 1 It e wre types tyRel In the tIm e i Mealy held hild good In re reIT I IT to la tue Ille men mell part lart In III I ite iu It du tile the tie Inevitable de deia e I 11 II ia lui t 1 luh on OIL 01 oat olle side ellie nail and nil II IC bU buu ULU ot at likely W el a it i i eye honors in III inthe Inthe the Ibe SIN dire ion o ot of delivery ml nl belonged to 10 George e u f r of ot Colorado boy bo s gna promise of ot being bel nit heard from u ia ye fefa a nice Luct LuL night he lie wa the cor i lon In III tab IOlj lou form torm ioui ou iune anti and never neer rf t not nO even en tile tuc of Damocles s In Inthe Inthe the tit form farm of or 1111 In III the hands o oHe ot of otIbe Ibe He tm K caused him to swerve Hugh P iv 1 and Arthur K E Kf Ethe w f the reul tm two visitors gave ac goola good aunt ct ot vee S iOU UTAh UMU For Yet tub tir distinct types 1 were wele l j i i u lii rc EC Will Wn dUd dard who Percy Jercy was wn there I 4 4 ue tole ti ia i a which ha lie delivered with oue Gue u i to gesture and ami In tI ft IID n v W s t u ut t times were WIe ct of ot on it t t H ton IL in iiri a ly Mr Is I a rip Jr trum im i r block bloc I cn was wall wa 0 t t ia l ili br r i Olice In awhile he tie soul ilay 1 o 0 tile the tie galleries awl acid to tote ote te a gen l man In the tho audience J h s lie of ot n a gOod loIt 1011 H II nude a 0 distinct lilt hit L Dan Jan an 11 Iii cl tw tM thIrd Utah cham a Milt Kent uio mi 1111 debate with deter and aM in tn bulldog fashion ho he hU ag r en to ti I 1110 no 11 of his opponents U paying regard to tu tho the M te point paInts 01 tj the guine Alexanders e rt to evidence during lila his In re r 01 utaI tai tal With wall one olle of at tho the lapses lape ef the n g nun Hun II I lO ve vew e the w freI II omer however Instruct el eJ 1 tie tue 3 r to G out tills this t II break W J II Tb The off offered by hy both bh Hides tIcs mid iid d careful preparation m a 11 i tor t lt the men I M JObbers considerable c n i l t i such Interesting ar nr r neM i l iM 2 i i iaVa all avi be i culled from tr M por 8 no ae 9 interstate commerce tt I lI I for tor the le thoroughness Cr th I nil reading the tho nort t up 1111 I on Of OC nur r urs th rL was wi enthusiasm pros pr r I ent eat In iii large laige generous bales bale Old Ohl time lime college yells ells nail and a nIl onse lome new oneil gr Inch each effort and afforded II I II un an ef ee effective orchestra Colorado came In for tor applause and no favorites were played From Froni first to last manlike Impartiality prevailed THE TIlE OFFICIALS The Tho Judges JUdgeR were John Cain Cnn Judge Andrew and P A Simp kin When the decision was WIlS announced It II MOM Willi received with great Brent and the Colorado debaters advanced and nn congratulated their erstwhile opponents opponents The timekeepers were sere W V W Hay liny and C 8 B Prior to the commencement of or the tho debate debato proper two musical numbers were verc given comprising a 1 solo soh by Miss MIs ilia mil U I and a it milo aulo by Miss lIss Janet ted led by Mrs George Skelton Then Iren Went Ident Lovo Love announced that each speaker would be given 12 minutes on direct and that the first fir t four peak era ellI lH would be given three minutes minute each and the last two debaters live minutes each In rebuttal OPENING GUN OUN FIttED The opening gun nun was fired l lly hr y Percy Perl of at the tha I t e ot ue IT U which took the In the th argument His It III speech was WIS the lie foundation upon which u II verbal structure was built of ot tuck rock brick and adobe so o to o speak lie spoke as lIi 15 follows That the lie Interstate com coin commerce comm merce m ICI commission be empowered to railway freight rates Tho question which we urn ala here h re to 10 consider on Is Ia If one ono of oC foremost t Importance lance tance tu the American people President Hoo has lia hl called cullel the at nl attention of ot Congress 1 In three message e eto to the urgent ur cl t necessity of ot tin thu commerce commission lon to freight rates The president has hM tile the enthusiastic support of oC commer commercial cial dal organizations nil all over the th laud land nilI the tact fact that the house homo hou o of ot representatives representative tive tives In III Its last hut session passed almost unanimously a II lull bill which aimed to 10 con confer confer confor fer for this very ery power proves that 0 n large proportion of ot tho the American people sup eup supPort port lort the tho plan This Thill widespread de demand mand ilia 1111 for additional legislation arises from the tho Innumerable I railway abuses from row which the people are ure The necessity for Cor n It remely Is III herons becom becoming ing moio incie mo mid more mOle urgent In that our railways s nr acquiring ng power to an on astounding extent In III fact today nutty five or 01 six fix giant systems Interest In hUll tiun are un closely do el Interwoven virtually control I the railway operations of or our country trusts and monopolies on nit the outside peek cock peekIng Ing lag to 11 t he bo nourished from Crom railway favor favoritism ItI m rice to tu numerous cl In into rato Ill to finally as us the cli Ill climax climax max of oC the evil ellI capitalists who pos cs combined Interests In the railway and the tho trust operate thu Ihl one lively to the tho of o the lie other The Tho evils that hut result traits from these those cuno I bits nr enormous and widespread Where a n few years aw a aI o live th competIng companies carried bituminous coal to the tho Atlantic seaboard today one 88 system tem tell the tho Pennsylvania llla controls that tremendous Industry which constitutes lIell 60 Wiler l per cell cent Ceist of ot Its 1111 entire As A a n result re prices on this coat coal have advanced so that thal now people o ot nf New w wJ J and the tho pastern eastern states state In III u it l commodity nn or cc at ln millions mill Ion s a nit in III loon of sf dollars n a year to the tIle monopoly Inci md Incidentally dentally the citizens of ot fait lIlt are RIF n a monopoly on Oil coat coal of at extortionate rates rul due lle to the tile same name cau catie all e might he be cited A FP FE 8 As All great grent a 1 greatel greater evil titan than the extortionate rate M Is the Iho discriminative rule rate That lie Standard Oil company hits has been cy yon y on railway favoritism Is a 0 notorious fact What It before the Hi HI m kini law trio rebates It now nl gets through discriminative rates rate For Fili e t tample ample the Standard Oil company hits has ha haI I Just Inde Independent pendent refineries at Cleveland are arc shut hul shutout shutout out from finni fair air competition with Stan Spun Standard dard Oil by IW the Influence of John D U Rockefeller with the lie railways Take Tako the thu rates n it liB nn nfl to 10 New Or Orleans Orlenn Orleans leans lenn the chief distributing point for nil southern territory On most com corn commodities of itt the same sallie class ciss as 1111 oil III the Iho rate role from Cleveland Is ts hut but two cents higher or 8 N per cent higher than the tue rate from Crom Chicago but hilt on pit Ill he the rate from Crom Cleveland el Is 8 S cents or 35 3 per percent cent higher r These rhe e rates shut shilL out nut th Independent refineries of at Cleveland and antl put millions on the th coffers pf if locke Rocke Rockefeller teller flIer Not only however hoor do 10 the snake make extortionate rates ratel by b virtu of oC their monopoly and discriminative dl rates by reason teason of or conspiracy with tho the trusts tru tl hut nl also o by meins of oC combIne and em among th h h they preserve pr rate adjustments which under free competition could not ex cx exist eXI let I t For example tho the rate lato on chinaware I from the thc th east tast to Salt Lake U Is l nn per cwt CIt From Prom the tho east eAt to Call California Cornia the tho rate rute Is or 2 lower louver tItan than the rate rille to Halt Lake In fact the rate to the thelast const last and hack back Is ts 74 Is ts lower louver than the first rate to Salt Lake Inke On drugs II rugs the rate late to the coast and hack Is H 14 cents than to Salt Lake direct on oilcloth H f cents cent lower louver anti and you may Ond hundreds of ot similar cases capes cu e In lii tho the local railway tariffs The rate on ni L cotton rotten piece goods from the east cust as to tu Denver Is 13 24 to California It Is 15 but 41 l I In Ta a IL complaint brought by b 11 Denver before the tho commission lon the Burlington had received on a shIpment I from rota the east for tor the Iho distance from Chicago to Denver It Ie this ship shipment ment merit had been Intended tot for the conel con t the would have Ime received tot for tho the sonic om haul but 5 H r Now home huml c case o The rate on pig Iron from I the ther Missouri river through Halt Salt Lake Laki Lakeover over the Hlo Grande Western W to Butte nutte I is Ii MO 40 per Iler ton tOil Until recently th rate raff to Salt Lake was Willi 1656 and In Is S now not 1034 still sItU nearly nearh 2 per ton higher than to through Salt Snit Luke Lake These Thc l eaves cares will show you ou why wh Salt Sell L Luke Is III not und mid cannot b 1 bc under pres present eat ent treatment n a great grent Jobbing center IN LN 1 ANTICIPATION Now tho the negative may ma tell you 01 that thai L water competition Justifies ju titi dis Ills discriminations criminations between cn here and the tin const coast We e admit tint that water compo compe competition Iii IH nn nfl Important actor In rate ad adjustment hut but he the use me the thi phrase to 10 cloak chak a it multitude of oC cuts InrI nan we uve deny lien that water competition or other othE natural 1111 tural agency justifies ju the tho Id discrimination that we wc havo pointed out The plan which wa wo are lire supporting proposed no Interference with rate lotte ud that are made to answer na natural tural economic demands but It Ii doe does it nn tin effective remedy for these thee o 0 artificial rite rates Our plan makes allow allowance ance linco for tal or n a strong distinction between us two tun of 01 rates which wo we ve shall den dell dellI I as aR economic rates and II lit arti artl artificial fidel rates Hy lW economic rates ate are meant m rates rate S which result from rein an all au automatic estah establishment estabLishment under free rree competition of ot re Ie lations between the shipper I and alit the th C carrier currier In the ordinary course of or busi business hUtlI ness I without any 11 combination or con COl of or either for holding up II or 01 ii putting put tint down litton For Jor nn an example At some point on the raIlway there ther C talLy may be hi n a largo large of oC hay buy which h Is cannot be he mined eu to i a II distant lant market intake 11 t at nt the tha existing rates The nio railway puts Put s Is IsI In nn an ni exceptionally low rote te so 10 as 11 to 10 t I o move this hay Such Huch Is nn an In economic o C rate made to 10 tile tho tle demand of oC o f t conditions With Wih such Much rates made In Inthe Ii u the Iho natural course of or business there thor 0 U is I no disposition l to 10 Inlet fere lInt Hut it on Oi oi pm the lie other oilier hand hund the railroad forces n a 1 rate ip up by h Virtue of ot its ItH II mo monopoly 10 or nr when by agreement between roads rOlls they th force rates up urt or when who Ii they diM i In lit II favor of trusts either through conspiracy with them or 01 n 11 its a result of ot combined Interest Int of ot capitalists In II both then there result what hit We ve shall term terni rates The caces ca already cited of oC extortionate hi bl coal rates of oC Standard Oil 01 the tho unreasonable rates lutcs to 10 Silt Salt Holt Lake Ial e and Denver Dearer as os 15 coin m pared with wih the enact coast Butta alt all ni these the e runes cases Illustrate what we cull call cul rates and Ind tutu prove oe more moreover mort over ovet a state tle of or affairs that cannot he be tolerated which demand that the nov gov jov 01 nt step Itell In Iii and check these rf on 01 rude trade t through some Rome tribunal OF ol 1 In hi the principle of control Involved In Inthis this plan piau there thele Is I nothing radically new leI Public highways highway high 11 and common carriers have been ien h en subject to government control In filet fact a n well ssell established principle of ot government frequently by h 1 our court curt as 18 its hiLt when property Is hi devoted to a t use tate In II which the public has an 11 Interest t It IL Is II subject to gov government IO control to II the extent Jr it f that Interest raIlways railway ral I nr era 11 engaged In lit a I public service Federal land grants amounting to tf over oyer 00 o acres large ulo conce ot of land front from the states enormous government leans such luch extraordinary Privileges as nB the right of eminent domain all al these grants 11 concession cnn only bu be bO Justified etl on nit the ground that tho the re ro IH II engaged In a n public puLlo 1111 hence Justly justl subject to government control In return fur for all 11 this public the railways are lre under ob oh obligation to turl furnish h transportation at nt rates and nl l e l terms to toni nil ni When this obligation Is Itt I Ignored they the must lust expect government Interference ence tice ICI Tho rho American people asserted 1 ert d tho tita th right rl ht to Ix railway Y lute ruten as Lie 11 early as 11 1673 states Ita tes began vetting vestIng such fuch fuchI I et with wih respect ct to 0 rates rte within the states In II loIIS In II tho the federal government In response to 10 a aery I Ier ery er general popular demand passed nn run ni net ilet to regulate commerce between states which declared unjust and un an unreasonable reasonable rates prohibited and fill ful The ulie enforcement of or this lw lasu I af nt ter tee thorough Investigation was In Instructed to a I commission When hen the tho commission discovered dl a n rate which us huh In proved unjust It found that the only way WIY to enforce enCore a n Just rate rato was to tx 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