The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-09
Great Crowd Heard Naval
 Hero.
Made Eloquent Appeal for worId's Peace and Resolutions Endorsing His Sentiments Were Adopted
 by an Unaninaous Vote.

Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson reception at the Montgomery Theatre yesterday afternoon by the men of Montgomery. Fifteen hundred men and boys heard him, speaking under the auspices of the Young Mems Chris tan Association of Montgomery, deliv- CT an eloquent and instructive address on the Peace of the World.
 He pictured in fine language America as the guardian, the chosen guardian, of the worlds peace. The nations of Europe were nations of war. nations of militarism. In the words of the speak, CT, referring to the European nations, Each nation is an army, each country is a camp" Opposed to the European nations, united on the one thing of mili- tarism, was America, the nation of in dustrialism, the country which builds up, does not destroy, the nation which is to establish peace and to protect humanity from the ravages of war.
 new view of the war in the Orient between Japan and Russia was pre- sented by Captain Hobson. This view of Captain Hobson was that Russia is fighting battles and retreating with definite purpose in view. that she is permitting Japan to advance and achieve victories until at the proper time Russia can cry Yellow Peril." Ja- pan is conquering to organize the Chi nese so that they will sweep the coun- tries of Europe. And in raising this cry" the speaker declared, "she will be sustained by the other European nations. The next act would be the seizing and partition of China among the European nations. with the result that both the Japanese and Chinese markets would be closed to American goods"
 It was the duty and destiny of Amer ica, Captain Hobson asserted, earnestly. to step in, at this juncture and declare that China shall remain intact and that no European country would step in and seize one foot of Chinese territory. Peace Resolutions Presented. He presented his peace resolutions to the large assembly. The resolution urged the American Government to continue to strive for another conven- tion of The Hague Tribunal and to op- pose to the end any attempt to violate the integrity of China. The resolution provided that the Mayor should-send a copy to the Representative from this district and to the United States Sena- tors. The resolutions were adopted without a dissenting vote.
 Captain Hobson's address was due to the activity of the Religious Service Committee of the Young Mems Chris tian Association of Montgomery. To accommodate the large crowd, which the committee knew would assemble to hear Captain Hobson, the Montgomery Theatre was secured for the occasion. When the exercises began at 3:3O o'clock yesterday, every seat on the bottom floor was filled and the balcony was equally as crowded. The audience was exclusively of men.
 Rev. Frank Seay, pastor of the High land Park Methodist Church. and a fel- low townsman of Captain Hobson. pre- sided. Music for the occasion was fur nished by quartette composed of Messrs. J. J. Pierce. J. H. Lakin, Weath- erly Carter and Edward Devant, with Professor Thomas Galloway at the piano, Prayer was offered by Michael Cody, a member of the Board of Direc- tors of the Y. M. c. A. A chapter of Scripture was read by MT. Seay. In introducing the speaker of the evening, Mir. Seay. spoke of the scene in Greensboro, in which both he and Captain Hobson were born and reared He pictured the scene at the bulletin board in Greensboro. surrounded by a great crowd when the telegram was re- ceived stating that Greensboro had contributed the great hero of the Span
 
 ish American war. He alluded to the purity and suotlessness of Captain Hobson's life, the force for good his life and ability had been from boy hood.
 Captain Hobson was greeted with a hearty burst of applause when h rose to begin his address. Humanf he said was in a great formative pefssd and 1t was just entering upon a new era of greatness. The old forces of war and millitarism were dying and the new forces of industrialism and of peace were rising to their proper places. He urged his hearers to throw their influence at this crisis upon the side of the right and of justice. He pictured eloquently the world as the choice planet in the whole universe and the human soul as the most pre- cious thing in the world. The white