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Chapter XI: Appendix: V

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QUESTIONS WITH SUGGESTED ISSUES AND

BRIEF BIBLIOGRAPHY

Below are several questions with issues suggested which should bring about a "head on" debate. They should be useful at the beginning of debating work or when time for preparation is somewhat limited. A brief bibliography is in each case appended.

"THE RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE SHOULD BE GRANTED TO WOMAN"

_Affirmative_

I. Woman wants the ballot.

II. Woman is capable of using the ballot wisely.

III. Where woman has had the ballot, the results have been beneficial
to the state.

_Negative_

I. A majority of women do not want the ballot.

II. Woman is incapable of using the ballot wisely.

III. A benefit has not resulted in those states which have given woman
the right to vote.

BRIEF BIBLIOGRAPHY

"Success of Woman's Suffrage," _Independent_, LXXIII, 334-35 (August 8, 1912).

"Suffrage Danger," _Living Age_, CCLXXIV, 330-35 (August 10, 1912).

"Teaching Violence to Women," _Century_, LXXXIV, 151-53 (May, 1912).

"Violence in Woman's Suffrage Movement: A Disapproval of the Militant Policy," _Century_, LXXXV, 148-49 (November, 1912).

"Violence and Votes," _Independent_, LXXII, 1416-19 (June 27 1912).

"Votes for Women," _Harper's Weekly_, LVI, 6 (September 21, 1912).

"Votes for Women," _Harper's Bazaar_ XLVI, 47, 148 (January, March, 1912).

"Votes for Women and Other Votes," _Survey_, XXVIII, 367-78 (June 1, 10.12).

"What Is the Truth about Woman's Suffrage?" _Ladies' Home Journal_, XXIX, 24 (October, 1912).

"Why I Want Woman's Suffrage," _Collier's,_ XLVIII, 18 (March 16, 1912).

"Why I Went into Suffrage Work," _Harper's Bazaar_, XLVI, 440 (September, 1912).

"Woman and the State," _Forum_, XLVIII, 394-408 (October 1912).

"Woman and the Suffrage," _Harper's Weekly_, LVI, 6 (August 17, 1912).

"Woman's Rights," _Outlook_, _C_, 262-66 (February 3, 1912).

"Woman's Rights," _Outlook_, _C_, 302-4 (February 10, 1912).

"Concerning Some of the Anti-Suffrage Leaders," _Good House-keeping_, LV, 80-82 (July, 1912).

"Expansion of Equality," _Independent_, LXXIII, 1143-45 (November 14, 1912).

"Marching for Equal Suffrage," _Hearst's Magazine_, XXI, 2497-501 (June, 1912).

"Woman and the California Primaries," _Independent_, LXXII, 1316-18 (June 13, 1912).

"Woman Suffrage Victory," _Literary Digest_, XLV, 841-43 (November 23, 1912).

"Woman's Demonstration; How They Won and Used the Votes in California," _Collier's_, XLVIII, 17-18 (January 6, 1912).

"Recent Strides of Woman's Suffrage," _World's Work_, XXII, 14733-45 (August, 1911).

"Woman's Suffrage in Six States," _Independent_, LXXI, 967-20 (November 2, 1911).

"Women Did It in Colorado," _Hampton's Magazine_, XXVI, 426.

"Woman's Victory in Washington" (state), _Collier's,_ XLVI, 25.

"Are Women Ready for the Franchise?" _Westminster_, CLXII, 255-61 (September, 1904).

"Argument against Woman's Suffrage," _Outlook_, LXIV, 573-74 (March 10, 1900).

"Check to Woman's Suffrage in the United States," _Nineteenth Century_, LVI, 833-41 (November, 1904).

"Female Suffrage in the United States," _Harper's Weekly_, XLIV, 949-50 (October 6, 1900).

"Ought Women to Vote?" _Outlook_, LVIII, 353-55 (June 8, 1901).

"Outlook for Woman's Suffrage," _Cosmopolitan_, XXVIII, 621-23 (April, 1900).

"Woman's Suffrage in the West," _Outlook_, LXV, 430-31 (June 23, 1900).

"Movement for Woman's Suffrage," _Outlook_, XCIII, 265-67 (October 2, 1909).

"Why?" _Everybody's_, XXI, 723-38.

"Woman's Rights," _Twentieth-Century Encyclopedia_.

"THE AMERICAN NAVY SHOULD BE ENLARGED SO AS TO COMPARE IN FIGHTING STRENGTH WITH ANY IN THE WORLD"

_Affirmative_

I. The scattered possessions of the United States demand the
protection of a large navy.

II. The expense of the proposed navy would be a judicious investment.

III. The proposed enlargement of the navy would be a step toward
universal peace.

_Negative_

I. The geographical situation of the United States makes a large navy
unnecessary.

II. The expense entailed, if the proposed plan were put into practice,
would embarrass the United States.

III. To carry out the proposed plan would be to increase the chances
of war.

BRIEF BIBLIOGRAPHY

"Relative Sea Strength of the United States," _Scientific American_ CVII, 174 (August 31, 1912).

"For an Adequate Navy in the United States," _Scientific American_, CV, 512 (December 9, 1911).

"Humble Opinions of a Flat-Foot; Frank Criticism and Intimate Picture of Our Navy, by a Blue-Jacketed Gob," _Collier's_ L, 14-15; P., XIX, 22-23 (December 7, 1912).

"Importance of the Command of the Sea," _Scientific American,_ CV, 512 (December 9, 1911).

"The United States Fleet and Its Readiness for Service," _Scientific American,_ CV, 514 (December 9, 1911).

"Battle-ship Fleet in Each Ocean," _Scientific American_, CII, 354 (April 30, 1910).

"Naval Madness," _Independent_, LXVIII, 489 (March 3, 1910).

"Our Naval Waste," _Nation_, XCI, 158 (August 25, 1910).

"Our Navy As a National Insurance," _Scientific American_, CII, 414 (May 21, 1910).

"American Naval Policy," _Forum_, XLV, 529 (May, 1911).

"If We Had to Fight," _Cottier's_, XLVIII, 18 (November 18 1911).

"Panama Canal and the Sea Power in the Pacific," _Century,_ LXXXII, 240 (January, 1911).

"LOCAL OPTION IS THE BEST METHOD OR DEALING WITH THE LIQUOR PROBLEM"

_Affirmative_

I. Other methods of dealing with the liquor problem have failed.

II. Local option is consistent with American ideas of government.

III. Local option is a proved success.

_Negative_

I. Local option is undesirable in theory.

II. Local option has not succeeded where tried.

III. There is a better method of dealing with this problem.

BRIEF BIBLIOGRAPHY

"Local Option; A Study of Massachusetts," _Atlantic_, XC, 433-40.

"Principle of Local Option," _Independent_, LIII, 3032-33 (December 19, 1901).

"When Prohibition Fails and Why," _Outlook_, CI, 639-43 (July 20, 1912).

"To Dam the Interstate Flow of Drink," _Literary Digest_, XLIV, 106-7 (January 20, 1912).

"Psychology of Drink," _American Journal of Sociology_, XVIII, 21-32 (July, 1912).

"World-Wide Fight against Alcohol," _Review of Reviews_, XLV, 374.

"Drink and the Joy of Life," _Westminster_, CLXXVI, 620-24 (December, 1911).

"Drink Traffic," _Missionary Review_, XXXII, 337-39 (May, 1909).

"Efforts to Promote Temperance since 1883," in L. B. Paton, _Recent Christian Progress_, 446-71.

"Fight against Alcohol," _Cosmopolitan_, XLIV, 492-96, 549-54 (April, May, 1908); _Harper's Weekly_, LII, 6-7 (April 25, 1908).

"Foreign Anti-Liquor Movements," _Nation_, LXXXVI, 230 (March 12, 1908).

"March of Temperance," _Arena_, XL, 325-30 (October, 1908).

"Social Conditions and the Liquor Problem," _Arena_, XXVI, 275-77 (September, 1006).

"Temperance Question," _Canadian M._, XXXII, 282-84 (January, 1909).

"Local Option Movement," _Annals of the American Academy_, XXXII, 471-5 (November, 1908).

"Results of a Dry Year in Worcester, Mass.," _Map Survey_, XXII, 301-2 (May 29, 1909).

"Local Option and After," _North American_, CXC, 628-41 (November, 1909).

"CAPITAL PUNISHMENT SHOULD BE ABOLISHED"

_Affirmative_

I. Capital punishment does not accomplish the purpose for which it is
intended.

II. Capital punishment is inconsistent with the teachings of modern
criminology.

III. There are other methods of punishment far more beneficial than
the death penalty.

_Negative_

I. Capital punishment decreases crime.

II. The cruelty of capital punishment has been greatly exaggerated.

III. Society has found no crime deterrent so powerful as the death
penalty.

BRIEF BIBLIOGRAPHY

"Does Capital Punishment Prevent Convictions?" _Review of Reviews_, XL, 219-20 (August, 1909).

"Does Capital Punishment Tend to Diminish Capital Crime?" _Harper's Weekly_, L, 1028-29; _Review of Reviews_, XXXIV, 368-69 (1909).

"Meaning of Capital Punishment," _Harper's Weekly_, L, 1289 (September 8, 1906).

"Plato on Capital Punishment," _Harper's Weekly_, L, 1903 (December 29, 1906).

"Should Capital Punishment Be Abolished?" _Harper's Weekly_, LIII, 8 (July 3, 1909).

"Whitely Case and Death Penalty," _Nation_, LXXXIV, 376-77 (April 25, 1907).

"Death Penalty and Homicide," _American Journal of Sociology_, XVI, 88-116 (July, 1910); _Nation_, VIII, 166; _North American_, CXVI, 138; _ibid._, LXII, 40; _ibid._, CXXXIII, 534; _Forum_, III, 503; _Arena_, II, 513.

"Capital Punishment and Imprisonment for Life," _Nation_, XVI, 193.

"Capital Punishment Anecdotes from Blue Book," _Ecl. M._, LXVI, 677.

"Capital Punishment Arguments Against," _Nation_, XVI, 213.

"Capital Punishment by Electricity," _North American_, CXLVI, 219.

"Capital Punishment: Case Against," _Fortnightly Review_, LII, 322; same article in _Eclectic Magazine_, CXIII, 518.

"The Crime of Capital Punishment," _Arena_, I, 175.

"Failure of Capital Punishment," _Arena_, XXI, 469.

"Why Have a Hangman?" _Fortnightly Review_, XL, 581.

"Punishment of Crimes," _North American_, X, 235.

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