The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-04-21
TELLS ABOUT KISSES.
Couldn't Have Refused Them as
Real Gentleman.


Real Gentleman.
Newspaper accounts of my kiss
ing and being kissed were immense
ly overdrawn. Often they told of my
kissing hundreds of women at sta
tons where my special never stopped
al all.
What was | to do? Those kisses
meant nothing but an outburst of
patriotic fervor on the part of the
young ladies, and no man with the
il stincts of gentleman could have
refused them the privilege they
craved. Those were incidents entire
ly unworthy of comment.
II am an unmarried man."
Such is the statement credited to
Richard Pierson Hobson, the man
who ran the gauntlet of the Spanish
batteries and sunk the collier Merr-
mac in the channel in order to bot
tic up Cervera's feet in Santiago
harbor Captain Hobson. who recent
ly resigned from the United States
navy. after having trouble with his
eyesight. is now travelling through
the west on lecture tour. Next
year. it is rumored. he may become
candidate for congress in his home
state. Alabama.
Il believe that the only safe course
| for the United States to pursue, the
| only course that is not fraught with
Dangers innumerabIe, is to constantly
add to and improve her naval force
| he is quoted as saying.
We are the arbiters of the destiny
o the worlds politics and the worlds
policy. 1t is our geographic right to
stand as the barrier between the am
hilton of one nation and the cupidity
| C. the other. 1t is our geographical
location that makes strong navy
necessary Therefore, all look toward
us We are the only real power on
the American continent and all ques-
tens relative to this half of the
world must be referred to us. Lately
we have added holdings in the Orient
and the Oriental policy of the world
must heed our voice.
1--WE cannot march to any other ma
ton by land We must do our travel
ing by water and a navy is neces-
sity to make that travel safe. We
have more exposed seacoast than any
ether nation on the earth. We have
more property in goods and merchan-
disc upon the high seas than any
other nation Therefore, we must
have a navy-and strong one"
america has longer coast line
than any other country of the earth,
and it is a fact that we have more
coast line property than all Europe
&C mbned." the Telegram quotes him
a. saving. while the Monroe doc
trine demands the biggest navy in
the world. we have several other con-
d,tions that enhance the force OF the
argument. The protection of the
Philippine islands against European
Invasion and aggressiveness demands
il: the prevention of the severine
) and partition of China would be
leat menace to our country and in
terests.
4 have come to the general, broad
&c Inclusion that the nation with such
Gigantic elements and such vigol
and force of productiveness and
property. representing free institu
tons, and in certain sense an era
of industrialism and peace, as
AGAINST aggressive Europe, represent
: ing an era of militarsm and war
if necessary to the combined navies
that the powers of the world Nigh
: ring to bear against her.
II do not believe it is radical. be
cause have travelled about thu
world bit and know the conditions
have the highest interest OF m.
| country at heart, and want her read!
to meet the foe. should any come
While we ali hope for peace ant
pray that war shall not devastate Oh
!, coast. yet hope and prayer are no
the means of protection
I I'VE can safely reckon that the re
E street. for the Monroe doctrine by FOL
: eign powers will be only in proper
I ton to our feet. and today that i
t only fourth rate. We have 1900
J. n lies of coast line within gunsho'
l and more property upon that lon
= line than upon the coast of Europe
o We send billions Of dollars worth G
property across the oceans in We;
sells valued at many millions. and tn
safety of all this property depend
e. upon our navy.
20 MY plan? I believe in increasln
H. the navy, making it the greatest an
70 srandest in the world. think
80 should be increased every year. sa.
r. begin with s4O.OOO.OO0 in new ship