The Dickinson press., 1916-03-18
FOR PRESIDENT
MAKES ELOQUENT ADDRESS

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Henry D. Estabrook, candidate on
the republican ticket for the presi-
Dental nomination of the United
States, delivered an eloquent address
at the Dickinson armory Tuesday
evening. MI. Estabrook is a cele-
brated New York lawyer, coming to
that state from Nebraska about 20
years ago. He has taken a prominent
part in politics for several years and
is a well known figure in eastern
political circles. In the west, how
ever, he has but a slight acquaint-
ance, but his extensive travels
through western states the past few
months has gained for him quite a
large following.
In his speech delivered in Dickin-
son, Mr.. Estabrook spoke on "Pre-
paredness," and gave voice to opin-
ions that unquestionably places him
in favor of more adequate military
protection.
In speaking about President Will
sons preparedness program, however,
MI. Estabrook made the following
comment:
"To put through the program will
require unity of action, and how is
this to be achieved? MIR. Bryan, the
Moses Of the democratic party so far
as keeping it in the wilderness is
concerned, and Mr.. Kitchin, the
democratic leader of the House, are
both violently opposed to Mr..
Wilson's program of preparedness.
Has the old admonition about a house
divided against itself lost it's 'signifi-
canoe? Wouldn't it seem as if the
democratic party had about all it
could do to prepare for it's own de-
tense, without attempting to rescue
the United States? Moreover, any
program of preparedness will take a
lot of money, and where is the money
coming from? Our national treas
ury, which a republican administra-
ton always leaves full to overflow
ing, was emptied by observing"
democrats quicker than it takes to
| tell of it. Between the advent of a
democratic administration and the
outbreak of the European war, the
richest nation in the world had virtu-
ally gone bankrupt. Our lonesome
pIco1uellI, SeC Lhe d oOl1CdlIe LII "
circle of incompetents-an island of
theory entirely surrounded by
theorists-was dazed and bewildered
at the devastation wrought by gov
ernmental policies which to his
metaphysical mind seemed so logical
in the abstract. He regarded the
phenomenon, in all sincerity, as
psychological-a state of mind. But
this explanation did not appease the
hunger of the hundreds of thousands
out of employment or those stand
ing in the breadline, or those living
from hand to mouth with nothing in
either of them.
"And what this nation needs and
must have is revenues. It is scarcely
necessary to argue that a protective
tariff is the only source of revenu
that has always proved adequate-a
tax, if it be a tax, easier to pay
and easier to collect than any other
tax; a tax that falls almost altogeth-
er upon the rich. Protection is what
Blaine called 1.-THE policy of en-
lightened %selfshness.' Every at
tempt to substitute some other
scheme of revenue has always proved
1uC11O dllu dOOlC AIN ~ VOu0y1
not the war tax and it's machinery,
nor the income tax and its machin-
cry, o the corporation tax and it's
machinery, nor the custom house
and it's machinery-not Ossa piled on
~Pelion-meet the situation, and there
fore, long before the outbreak of the
European war we rel warned to
look out for a bond issue to make
up an appalling deficit. And here at
last the administration is on solid
ground. The United States can al
ways borrow to tide over a few
years of experimental folly.
1T is apparent that the present ad-
ministration, having gained some
little knowledge of the world, must
either recede from it's cloistral
speculative policies for the good Of
the Republic, or that in due time it
must be supplanted by an %administra-
ton to whom experience, rather than
theories however plausible, or hopes
however sanguine, shall be a lamp
to the feet and a lodestar to the
mind. What this country really
needs and always needs is a republi-
can administration of it's affairs"