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...Buttrick, E G, 2 Gorham street
Harold E. Buttrick of Brooklyn, N. Y., the first speaker for Yale, said: "The income tax law of 1894 was an unnecessary revenue measure. We do not oppose an ideal tax, but the income tax law was passed to meet a deficit which should have been met by economy. It was sectional, too; an attack on the east by the west and the south. The income tax law of 1894 was vicious as a practical measure and violates every principle upon which a genuine income tax is based. The law was an attack of socialists and populists upon capital...
Each of the above speakers occupied twelve minutes. Messrs. Rall and Buttrick, for Yale, and Messrs. McElroy and Burns were allowed six minutes rebuttal. The judges, Rev. Lyman Abbott, of New York, Laurence Hutton and Professor Cummings, of Harvard, retired, and were out nearly half an hour. During their-absence Judge Howland made a witty speech, declining to talk upon the income tax, the subject under discussion, as it "touched him up" too deeply. Dr. Abbott, for the judges, then declared that the decision was not unanimous, but that it gave the victory to Princeton. There was some applause...
...Hutton, the author, and Professor Edward Cummings of Harvard. The question selected is: "Resolved, that, under the circumstances, the passage of the income tax law of 1894 was justifiable." Yale presented the question, giving Princeton the choice of sides. Princeton selected the affirmative. The Yale speakers are Harold E. Buttrick of Brooklyn, N. Y., Frank Rall, Des Moines, Ia., and Clarence E. Clough, Wilmot Flats, N. H. The Princeton speakers are W. F. Burns of Illinois, R. M. McElroy of Kentucky, and B. L. Hirshfield of Ohio. They will speak in the order named, and the first two named speakers...
...their village, and the minute men continued to swarm in from the country during the morning hours. They hesitated, however, from habit, from loyalty, and perhaps from wholesome fear, to put themselves in the attitude of rebels. But when the detachment at the bridge fired upon our men, Major Buttrick no longer stayed his hand, but cried to his force of militia, "Fire, fellow soldiers, for God's sake fire!" This was the beginning of the Concord fight. The day went more and more against the regulars, and about noon they began to retreat. The farmers pursued them to Lexington...