The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-09
CAPT. ROBSON SPOKE AT
 Y.M. C. A. MEMS MEENlNG

race as the strong dominant race was from it's very strength under opIisseon to lift up the weaker race of humanity. The obligation was especially pressing now as to the yellow race.
 He spoke of the many months ne spent at Hong Kong superintending the reconstruction of the gun boats which had been raised after being sunk by Dewey. He pictured the low de. gradation to which the Chinese had sunk, a condition in which a man la bored for five cents a day and on that pittance supported a family of several persons. He alluded to the physical horrors some of the Chinese. presented, as seen by a walk through their cities. But the physical degradation of the Chinese he declared was far inferior to their moral degradation. race of people living under a repellant belief that the forces of nature were created and organized to crush humanity.
 China and the South.
 He alluded to the great work that was before the white race to lift up these fallen people and let them do as they are anxious to do. the labor of the world. a labor which the white race could organize and direct. The best market for Southern cotton he said was in China and Japan. Cotton goods were used there exclusively as cloth- ing by all that were able to buy it.. But in their poverty stricken state on- ly a few of the Chinese could buy the cotton of America, but if they were uplifted they would use twelve times as much cotton goods and continue on and on in the buying of the South's great staple. Then, Captain Hobson declared it would make no difference if twenty million bale crop was raised and the efforts of every bear in the swamps and woods would count for naught. Cotton he declared would go to twenty cents and higher.
 To obtain this object, the uplifting of the Chinese, the preservation of the integrity of China from the mill tary nations of Europe was the duty and destiny of the great nation of in- dustry and peace, America.
 Captain Hobson pictured the whole campaign in Manchurla as a prear- ranged plan of Russia's to open the way for grouping Of the nations of Europe having for it's purpose the oc- cupation and partition of China He pointed out that time after time Russia had merely fought and fell back, fight ing a while and then retreating. He declared that the force of Russian sol diers in Manchuria was inadequate for repelling the Japanese and that, Russia knew it. Even as the European na- tions were grouping to seize China as the farce was being played out it was the duty of America to stand forward and forbid any one of them to touch the Chinese Empire.
 The task would be a simple one he said If the navy was large enough. The first and present duty of America was to enlarge its navy that it could when the time came step forward and defy the combined military nations of the world.
 Captain Hobson spoke rapidly and earnestly. His earnestness as much as his eloquence caught the interest and attention of his hearers. He was fre- quently interrupted with applause At the close of his speech when he had read his peace resolutions the entire audience stood to show that they were in hearty accord with the sentiments the resolutions expressed.
 Captain Hobson is in Montgomery to cast his vote us an elector from the State at large. He will meet with the other electors at noon today in the off, flee of Secretary of State.