Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-03-14
ESTABROOK SCORES
UNDERWOOD BILL
In Fargo Address Says That Tariff
Is Most Important Issue of
Campaign.
DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRA-
TON BANKRUPTS NATION
Speaks at Dickinson This Evening
and at Bismarck Tomorrow
Night

Fargo, n d., March 13.-Henry D..
Estabrook, presidential candidate,
continued his campaign in the state
by speaking at Fargo this evening.
He leaves on No. for Dickinson,
where he speaks Tuesday evening, re-
turning to Bismarck for an address at
the Auditorium Wednesday evening.
He said in part:
Most Important Issue.
THE tartf, in my opinion, is the
most important issue confronting the
United States today, not even except
ing the question of military prepare
ton, for it is not this spasm, this
CONFUSION OF prosperity begotten by
the European war, that constitutes
our real prosperity on which we can
draw for all time to come. The fruits
of its sudden efflorescence could be
lost as quickly as acquired, and will
be. if we leave our fences down. 1t
is the sane, normal, steady, growing
welfare Of the country on which all OF
us must depend for our individual
welfare.
u , "IOST HSPSSl.
at is this wider aspect Of the sub
ject propose to consider, not as it
affects any particular interest, but as
it affects every interest, the tariff as
a national policy, and its philosophy.
If a manufacturer wants to know how
the tariff affects him personally, let
him send to the Home Market Club of
Boston and they will enlighten him.
If the farmer wants to know how the
tariff affects him personally, let him
read my address to the farmers of
the United States, which has just
been published in the Northern Far
mer. But before l allowed it to 90
forth, took the precaution to submit
the manuscript to Mr. and Mrs. Ladd
and Governor Batchelder, of New
Hampshire, all of them farmers, and
the best agricultural experts in the
country, and they said it was correct
in every statement. So feel safe in
commencing it to the farmers of
North Dakota.
Free Trade Wilson.
Our free trade president, himself
professor, grinned audibly when he
signed the free trade Wilson Under
wood-Simmons bill and said that it
signalized the ambition of lifetime.
TO be sure, he was not the first Will.
son who had, had like ambition.
Another Wilson, in 1894, who was
also another professor. was carried
on the shoulders of his admiring con-
freres up and down the aisles OF the
house in popocratic delirium of de.
light, because he had put through a
free trade tariff bill, contemporaries
ously every municipality in the coun-
try had opened its free soup par
lors to the victims of his scholastic
ego:ism. Free trade had come then
as it did in 1912 because the Ameri.
can voter gets mad at anything or
anybody. He forgot the lessons of
the past and is always ready to bite
off his own nose to spite his face,
even though he meekly sets to work
to grow new nose. Vainly our man
ufacturers had warned our president
in 1912 that they could not compete
with foreign prices and would have to
shut up shop. The president declar-
ed he would hang every mothers son
of them higher than Haman if he
dared to do so.
Reduce Wages.
Then, said they, we must abandon
our factories here and build abroad.
The unmitigated Redfield, every col
lateral whisker vibrating with indig-
from even thinking of such a thing.
Then. said they, we must reduce
wages to somewhere near European
level. Do that to US, cried the labor
ers, and we will raise ruction in
every line of industry, and I for one
gloried in their spunk. The farmer