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...clock, was read and adopted. The question selected for the next debate was as follows: Resolved, That there should be free coinage of silver in the United States. The debate of the evening was on the question: Resolved, That a republican form of government is the best for Brazil. R. L. O'Brien, L. S., opened for the affirmative. He declared that all arguments directed against the advisability of government by a democracy in Brazil were invalid; because in becoming a republic, Brazil did not necessarily become a democratic republic. The bloodlines of the late revolution shows that the Brazilians...
...Horne, '92, closed the debate for the affirmative. The outbreak, he said, was not against Dom Pedro, but against the succession of his son-in-law, the Count D'Eu. The diversity of population in Brazil is not greater than in the United States The United States, too, had a small population and a large territory at the beginning of the government. The Spanish Americans have proved by their commerce that they can make a republic successful. All the good that the emperor has done has been under a government practically republican...
...negative side of the question was closed by R. W. Hale, '92. He declared that the statements of his opponents were not correct. It was not true that Brazilian credit was unshaken by the revolution. The masses in Brazil are still little civilized. This was provided for under the old government by a very limited system of suffrage, but it is proposed by the revolutionists to make the suffrage universal. The leaders of the revolt have treated the capital in a very partial manner, and there is great danger that Brazil will split up into several different governments...
Question: Resolved, That the republican form of government is the best for Brazil...
PHOTO. COM.HARVARD UNION.- Debate postponed one day. Will be held Friday December 6. Question: Resolved, That the republican form of government is the best for Brazil. Books on subject reserved...