The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-12
''Shake the coppers out for good"

to be hoped that the aggregation of nationaltties which the Captain seems to fear, and for the purposes he seems to think, will never actually material
 If, however, England, Germany. France and the other European pow CTS CTS should form an alliance offensive of the territory of China, it would be the duty of the United States to pro- test against such a cause, but beyond as Uncle Remus says, gro lie low and Say nothing"
 A long time ago when we were in the act of getting into great war. lieved that the whole world would bow the knee to King Cotton" and this suggestion was thrown out as 8. sop to the cotton farmers. but when declined. to bend the knee to King Cotton"
 Captain Hobsoh conjures up in his imagination, a condition of affairs bales of cotton annually, at 20 cents a pound, but that will come only as g. result of the United States throwing ESrope anS chna aere sop to self-interest and greed for money. The people of the United States are all in favor of extending missionary operations of iifting the Chinaman as much as may be. but they must. in the nature Nof things, re- member that there are other things with a poverty stricken people.
 If Captain, Hobson Is reported cor rectly, to create a bare possibility of obtaining the great advantages of imagine. the United States must first build an immense navy, then defy the combined powers of Europe" and chen state into which he has fallen. as in- dicated by the following language of Captain Hobson. ''He pictured the low degradation to which the Chinese had sunk, a condition in which a man labored for cents a day and on that pittance supported a family of several persons. He alluded to the physical horrors some of the Chinese presented But the physical condition of the Chi nese he declared is far inferior to their moral condition"
 His speeches as l & understand. are the country and are in the interest of his two billion navy, which 1t :s hoped will never exist except in his Inauguration. We are all, nevertheless. in favor of navy sufficient for ali reasonable exigencies. He calls us nation of peace, and says that 1t Is the duty and destiny of this great nation lift the Chinese, and maintain Chinese integrity" Peace. and in the same breath, he says that it is "the duty of the United States to step forward in case of such a crisis" as he imagines. and defy the combined military na- tions of the world" and he says this would be easy if we had such navy as we ought to have" He proposes to play the bully"
 Suppose. the Captains imaginations as that the United States should have Q navy such as he advocates, what would be the result2 Among individ- uals as we'll as nationalities, every de- cent man despises bully, and the re- suit would be, that we should have the world against us. if we undertook to defy the combined powers of Europe. What do we think of the braggart; every pocket. and bowie knife in his belt? Would there be any difference between the United States and indi- viduals, if we were to prepare our selves with the kind of navy he seems to advocate, with the avowed purpose of defying all Europe In any one par. ticular thing? He speaks of peace, of an old Justice of the Peace in Dale County. in the long time ago, when they used to fight the best six in elev- en at the cross roads. The olo justice was very handy man with the use of his fists and feet, and on one occa- sion where they had decided combat. involving a good many persons. the justice had knocked the adversaries down right and left. and won the fight A quiet man went up to him and said; Squire. are you not Justice of the Peace. aud is it not your duty to com mand and keep the peace?" He said' "Yes son; I am a Justice of the Peace. and 1t Is my duty to keep the peace. but I have to fight like hell sometimes to do if" I do not think the United States ought to be placed in the atti- tude of that old Justice, although we have splendid fighting qualities, and can fight as nearly like the bad place as any other nation. but would the game be worth the scandle?' l have said what I have, because I do not be- neve any such notions should be pro- mulgated through the country, and the votes of the people taken upon them as I understand he does for the pur- pose of parading them before the Con- gress of the United states, without some protest from some one, and I therefore write this as my protest at the same time insisting that those shall remember what eloduence with out prudence has already done for thls country.
 shall say no more. If these req sons cannot stand against new and untried schemes and methods they may fall. as did like reasons fortS-four years ago.