DEBATE OF OCTOBER 10, 1888.Question: "Resolved, that the duties on wools and woolens, as proposed in the Mills bill would be advantageous both to the manufacturers and consumers of woolens."

Brief for the Affirmative.W. C. Green and E. S. Griffing.

Best general reference: President's Message, 6 Dec., 1888 (pamphlet).

A. The consumers would be benefited.

1. "Unnecessary taxation is unjust taxation."

2. Clothing will be cheaper in price or of better quality:- For illustration see the case of fancy cashmeres on page 13 of Leopold Morse's speech in the House of Representatives, 12 July, 1888 (pamphlet, and in Congressional Record).

3. Cheap clothing is a benefit; cheap clothes do not make cheap men.

B. The manufacturers would be benefited.-Campaign documents for 1888, Harvard College, especially the one entitled "A Woolen Manufacturer on Free Wool," by Robert Bleakie.

1. The scheme of taxation will be simple, as shown in an analysis of the Mills bill.- New York Herald for 2 March, 188.

2. The field of operations of the manufacturer will be larger.- Speech of Wm. M. Springer, House of Representatives, 19 July, 1888 (Congressional Record and pamphlet).

3. The discrimination in favor of home-manufactured woolens will be greater than formerly.- Speech of Roger Q. Mills, House of Representatives, 21 July, 1888 (Congressional Record and pamphlets).

Brief for the Negative.W. R. Bigelow and R. C. Surbridge.

Best general reference: Speech of Hon. Wm. McKinley, jr., in the House of Representatives, May 18, 1888.