it good business to open our ports free to products which we can grow at home? Is this protection to the American farmer?

Mr. Chairman, from the burden of discussion by our opponents, it seems that their great stock in trade is mercy to the Cuban people. Not satisfied with the gift of independence and an opportunity to work out their own salvation, our opponents propose to take them into our fold and feed them of our American milk and honey. Against this unnecessary pampering we most emphatically protest. We gave them our treasure by the millions. We sacrificed priceless lives for their freedom. We have done what no other nation on earth would have done, and for it we asked no recompense. Let us hail Cuba as a sister republic of this continent. Let us guarantee protection, but do not let us sacrifice any of our institutions in order to build up hers. A union may become distasteful and hateful to us. In case of war, if under our flag, she would be a shining mark for the enemy. Her long line of coast would add greatly to the difficulties of defense.

Let us husband our strength at home, teach our people industry and economy, and

when any alluring prize in the shape of acquisition of territory is offered to us, let us first count the cost.

Affirmative.

SEVENTH SPEAKER.-Mr. Chairman: In closing this discussion I call your attention to some of the reasons given in favor of annexation.

First. By annexation we could establish a system of sanitation which would prevent native diseases spreading to our shores.

Second. Commercially, we should control the entire trade of the island.

Third. We depend largely upon Cuba for such products as sugar, fruits, and tobacco, and under our supervision those products can be vastly increased.

Fourth. By cultivating the 17,000,000 acres in Cuba that lie fallow, we can add millions to our present exports.

Fifth. Annexation will open land for immigration for many of our unemployed.

Sixth. It will extend the demand for our cereal foods, meats, cotton, machinery, etc.

Seventh. To produce our sugar without a tariff benefits the consumer. This alone would save annually $100,000,000.

Eighth. The knowledge of Cuba's salubrious climate

would attract pleasure seekers, and their disbursements would add to the wealth of the country.

Ninth. Having annexed Porto Rico, we require Cuba to control the passages to the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.

Tenth. We need Cuba in order to protect our navy, if in the future we are called upon to go to war.

Mr. Chairman, there is no doubt of the propriety and justice of this proposal. Cuba should be annexed. The answer that it would open competition with our people is puerile. As well say that Florida should not furnish products that compete with New York. Cuba would only add to our territory a country about the size of Pennsylvania, but one whose climate and products are unlike ours. With Cuba one of our States, we shall share in her prosperity and she in

ours.

SECTION VII.

QUESTION.

Resolved, That the fear of punishment has a greater influence on human conduct than the hope of reward.

Affirmative.

FIRST SPEAKER.-I. Nature has ordained two distinct rules as the basis of all actions:

First. Order.

Second. Punishment for the infraction of order.

II. If any of Nature's laws are transgressed, the inevitable result is punishment. There is no escape. The punishment will be in proportion to the disobedience.

III. The child is taught to fear punishment, and its conduct bends to this decree.

IV. The impressions of youth largely govern the actions of after-life. If those impressions, as they refer to conduct, are those of obedience, then it largely becomes the nature

of the individual to obey command, and to fear the penalty of disobedience.

V. Fear of punishment enters largely into the action of every individual. He considers

these consequences:

First. If his action be so and so, what will be the result?

Second. Will it constitute a violation on which punishment will follow?

Third. If this be so, will he escape punishment?

These considerations must be a factor in governing his actions. While reward may often influence character, yet the fear of punishment proves a greater restraint.

VI. Animals are governed by restraint.

VII. The horse is broken to obey the command of his master. The dog, though he loves his master, fears him.

Negative.

SECOND SPEAKER.-I. We do not disagree with the speaker in regard to the violation of nature's laws. We admit that if a child puts his finger in the fire he will suffer the penalty