Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-03-16
\. D. ESTABROOK
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kota, and, if you will promise to list
en- attentatively, you will know pre-
cisely how | stand on it before the
evening is over, for it is TO DE the
subject of my remarks.
Mr.. EstabrOok then launched INTO
an eloquent appeal for preparedness
It was repetition OF the forcetul al
dress delivered at jamestown and
Dickinson.
He declared that the Republican
party was one Of progress and that 1t
stood today for those things in gov
eminent that this nation cherlshes
most.
The climax of his address was de-
voted to an appeal for party harmony.
He declared it was not a case OF the
Progressives returning to the fold IN
sack cloth and ashes as Mr.. Taft sug-
gested but a getting together as broth
ers with forgiveness on both sides.
Mr.. Estabrook was the guest OF
honor at a dinner last evening at the
Grand Pacific, under the auspices or
the Burleigh County Ear association.
In addition to the members OF the as
ISOLATION, city and county officials
were invited. .,. s.l
Chief Justice Fisk and Justices
Burke and Bruce attended. NO ad-
dresses were delivered, but the guests
went in a body to the address at the
Auditorium.
General E. A. Williams introduced
Mr. Estabrook.
He said in part:
"For the last eight months | have
been preaching throughout the west
the duty and necessity OF military
preparedness for national self-de-
tense. | notice that Mr.. Choate at
tributes Mr. Bryan's opposition to
any program of preparation to the
fact that he lives in Nebraska-my
old home in the middle west-Where
the danger of invasion is not so i'm
minent as it is along our seacoasts.
If this fairly accounts for Mr.. Bry-
ans repugnancy, then Mr.. Bryan, as
usual, misrepresentation people of
the middle west, who, from my obser-
walton. need no conversion to'the' doc
trine embodied in your resolutions,
nor any renah der Gof d'hefr duty in the
premises. They realize7 that they are
the very heart OF a mighty organism
whose welfare as whole O depends
upon the welfare Of all its members,
and | claim to represent their sentl-,
ments better than Mr.. Bryan when L
say to you that, in these days OF
growing apprehension, the men OF the
middle west will give early notice toS
their countrymen, as far away as the
Atlantic and Pacific states, that the
government which, in 1860, they
fought to save against the aggres
sion of enemies from within, they
stand ready at all times to-, defend
against /, aggressions Of anyQ possible
enemy from, WITHOUT. ,,but 4a.,gr. /
."And America has more than her
physical "A possessions, tol9n defend.
These, and her,oq opportunities, she
Willingly shares with all who come to
her But the thoughts that are hers,
the ideas that are hers, and hers
alone, she is bound to defend al
ways, in all ways, and against all
corners. Emerson says that the soul
of God is poured into the world
through the thoughts of men. "The
world" he says, Stands on ideas, not
on iron or cotton; and the iron of
iron. the fire of fire, the ether and
source of all elements is moral force.
AS cloud on cloud, as snow on snow,
as the bird rests on the air and the
planet rests on space in its flight so
do nations Of men and their institu-
tons rest On-thOught.'
1t is true that no nation threatens
us in so many words; but who is
oblivious to hints and limitations
that speak louder than words? We
boast our strength to repel attack
when we know it to be mere bounce
and bombast While every other ma
ton has been preparing for aggres'
sion we have not made ready even
for defense. Is this state of imbe
cility to endure? Shall We continue
to listen to wandering voice as i'm