The Oregon weekly., March 30, 1908, Image 5

NEGATIVE TRIO IS DEFEATED then described the law in detail show­
(Continued from page one.)
ing that it was enacted contrary to the
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basic principles of American govern­
excluded on the basis of protection to ment in that it presumed a man enter­
Mrs. Lizzie Luckey, wife of J.
American labor. He maintained that ing the I nited States to be guilty un­
S. Luckey, at her home on Tenth
if we allow the Japanese to do only til proven innocent when it should be
and Pearl streets, Monday, March
our menial work, that they will be­ the reverse. He showed that the right
23.
come a race of slaves and that we will of habeas corpus was not granted to a
Mrs. Luckey was well known to
have our southern slavery question to Chinaman and that other injustices
the students of the University and
deal with once again. To prevent all would make it an insult to Japan to ex­
to many she was a close personal
this, Harris argued, there is open the tend such laws to apply to her citizens.
friend. During the early years of
solution of exclusion of the Japanese \\ healdon closed with a complete sum­
the institution her home was the
from the United States.
center of college social functions,
mary of the negative argument.
and no such occasion was consid­
Yhos. R. Townsend spoke next for
fhos. E. Latimer closed the debate
ered complete unless chaperoned
Oregon. He admitted that there were for Washington and with a whirlwind
by her. Many are the students
evils connected with the present policy finish was successful in landing the
who she has helped in their strug­
of the United States with regard to the unanimous decision as above chroni­
gle for an education. Childless
Japanese and conceded that regula­ cled.
herself she became the mother
tion of immigration was necessary; but
and adviser of more than one
Track Tryout
maintained that no further legislation
young man and many are they
was necessary and that the Chinese ex­
Saturday afternoon at 3:30, Trainer
who, with grateful memories of
clusion law is wholly uncalled for; first
her bencficicnces, share with the
because the nation of Japan has ex­ “ Bill” Hayward entered the greater
bereaved husband his grief for one ’
pressed a willingness to deal with the the greater part of his track athletes in
departed.
question and solve the problem at its special events for the purpose of get
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source by preventing Japanese labor­ ting a comparative estimate of the var­
ers from coming to the United States ious men. Very few of the regular
from Japan; second, there are already events of a track meet were pulled off’ « »
Resolutions
so
that
places
won
are
not
permanent.
sufficient laws upon our statute books
« ► Whereas, God, in his infinite
giving the president power to stop The official tryout for the team which « ►
wisdom, has removed from among
immigration to the United States when enters the Columbia Indoor meet will o o us Mrs. Luckey, the well-loved
necessary. He showed a large amount occur on the coming' Saturday. In o o friend of the University, therefore
of cheap labor was an actual necessity case of two men tying, the place will o* be it
on the Pacific Coast and that our pres­ be given to the man who has trained oo
Resolved, that we, the students
ent laws allowed a limited immigration the most consistently.
Following is the list of events and « o » of the University, hereby express
to meet this need. Since the Chinese
f our sorrow and grief for the loss T
law would exclude all Japanese, he place winners of the field day last Sat­ o of one whose beautiful character T
argued that its extension would be un­ urday.
won our profound admiration and
75 yd. dash—Moores, Kiltz, Moore.
wise. V hat we want, he maintained,
respect, and whose generous na­
75 yd. dash (novice)—Moon, Swart,
is a law which will make a limited
ture will long be remembered;
Loosely.
immigration possible.
and be it
660 yd. run—Dodson, Downs.
Yhos. E. Latimer, Washington’s vet­ 300 yd. dash (novice)—Moore, Dean,
Resolved, that we extend to the
eran leader, who has worked in the Loosely.
bereaved family and friends, our
employ of the Japanese exclusion lea­
deepest and heartfelt sympathy.
50 yd. hurdles—Moores, Kuyken­
gue, on the question of Japanese ex­ dall.
Miriam Van Waters,
clusion, for two years, spoke next. He
Clara Canfield
1000 yd. run—Wood, Sivers, Platts.
argued that Japan could not be trust­
Wm. Wood
1000 yd. run (novice)—Riddell, Wil­
ed to take care of the question of liams, Hoover.
Commitee
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keeping her laborers from the United
Shot put—Zacharias, McIntyre, and
States and that hence the Chinese laws Moullen.
Only a Few Dollars Behind.
should be extended to the Japs. He
175 yd. dash—Moores, Moon, Reid.
Manager E. Smith, of Oratory and
maintained that the American fleet was
Pole vault—Moullen, Roberts, Rob­
Debate, will close his season with a
coming around the horn and that there inson.
was a possibility of war with Japan.
Broad jump—Kuykendall, Bristow. deficit of only ten or fifteen dollars—
Hence the Japanese should be exclud­
No time was given out, but the the best record that has been made in
ed. Latimer was not especially strong heavy condition of the track prevented this department for several years. Last
on constructive argument and his real anything fast, although there was some year and the year before these depart­
ability was not shown until his five keen competition for places. The work ments were behind from $50 to $75 at
minute closing rebuttal speech.
of Freshman Moon was particularly the close of the season so that the
Clarence L. Whealdon closed the de­ noticeable and several other first year work of Manager Smith is very grat­
bate for Oregon. He summarized Ore­ men showed promise of future de­ ifying. For a week before the con­
test Manager Smith worked hard and
gon’s case thus far advanced and con­ velopment.
constantly and advertised his debate in
tended that no further legislation is
A report of the address of Bishop a manner superior to any previous con­
necessary. But even if it should be
conceded that further legislation is Scadding at Assembly last Wednesday test. His success was brought about
necessary, the Chinese law is not the is not printed because our assembly ed- by hard work and all due credit should
be given him.
best means because it is unjust. He jtor failed to turn it in.