Arizona republican., 1899-04-04
ROBSON IN A NEW ROLE.

Lieutenant HobsCn has had a stir
 ring time during the last year. He
 had a chance and took it. He won all
 kinds of honor and glory and brought them home with him. Then he had
 other chances and took them; and now
 he wishes that he hadn't. It isn't eX- actly as if he had belonged 10 that
 category of unpopular people who kiss and tell The telling was done fer him. It was done with enthusiasm.
 He was too widely advertised by his loving friends All the blame of his
 fall from grace does not belong to him, though the greater part of it has been visited upon him. IJ vas through l lack of foresight, through criminal
 omission of precaution that he s1c- cumbed He should have known enough to wear a mask.
 Now that Hobson has gone out tt. the distant Philippines, those islands that MT. Docley says are lover beyant there,' and which are eitker far to the east of us or far to the west Cf Us, he
 has relieved the people of the United
 States, for nobody knew what was
 going to happen to him neyt. and we
 are afraid that there were not many
 who cared. But new ne has buckled
 down to work again ;n the jlowery
 east and has nothing to hamper him
 except two regulations. One reputa-
 tion he twill have to live up to. That
 is hard. The other one he will have to live down. That is hard9: still. Let us hope that he will succeed in both en-
 deavors.
 He has done something pretty good already, though he las not been very
 long on the other side of the Pacific
 The other day he was entertained at dinner at the American consulate at Hong Kong. There were number of people at the dinner, some of them Englishmen and some of them Ameli- cans. Many speeches were made, the Englishmen speaking 0s well as the Americans. Hobson's speech was a short response to a toast on the Anglo Saxon alliance. All went well at the dinner until one of he Americans made speech in which he said that the war with Spain had been declared to satisfy the desires ot the American people; they had long been casting cov- etOus eyes upon the Pearl of the An titles. The speaker meant well, but he failed to make the hit that he haG hoped to. The Englishmen present looked at each other as if to say that here was a revelation of ;he true Amer | jean spirit; that now they knew wly war had been declared; that broad hu- manitarian principles existed only in | the imaginations of certain enthusi asts. The speaker was taken aback tt the way in which his speech WAS re- ceived. It was then that Lieutcnantl | HObson asked permls9Ion to speak | again.
 Hobson rose and made T speech that convinced all those at the table. With strong words and with real and sincere eloquence he pointed out the facts in the case. He reviewed the situation from the very beginning and showed the motives that move the president | and the whole country ro take the ac ton that the United States followed out to the end, acting upon the prin ciples that are still at the bottom of our present foreign affairs. The Eng lishmen dropped their knowing smiles and the former American speaker re- ceded from his position. Hobson saved the day There is undoubtedly great deal to that young man, ard, though lie lost his head somewhat after he was raised to his pinnacle, we think that he will yet come out all right.