Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-07-12
C0ATLESS AND C0LLARLESS,
TOLD OF PEACE YRIUMPHS
HE FAVORS EXPANSION
TIE Musical Entertaai mnentPcmfw
Night Pleased a Large
Audience.

To the great disappointment of well
the third day of the Tulsa Chautauqua
was brought to an abrupt end yester-
day by the orced hurrying away of
the speaker, Richmond Pearson Hob
son, former Capatain of Naval Con-
struction of the United States Navy,
and present Democratic nominee for
congress from the Sixth Congressional
district of Alabama.
Captain Hobson's subject was
"Peace,' upon which he spoke from
an economic standpoint from material
gathered during residence in the varl-
Gus countries Of the globe that are
brought into the greatest prominence
during the present times. The Captain
opened his talk with very graceful
Acknowledgement of the introduction,
and in congratulating the new state of
Oklahoma upon admittance to the
sisterhood of the Union. He then took
up the question of patriotism that has
always been displayed in America, and
told how this nation has always sue
cored the weak from the strong, He
touched very briefly on the condition
that exists between Capital and La
Dor, and then proceeded to the main
theme of his discourse" Peace. and
how it may be made universal. The
lecture was es 'entially plea to the
American people for an enlargement
of the American navy, not to make
this dominating military power, to
be simply such. but as practical bus
mess proposition for the protection Of
American interests everywhere, espe-
cially in the commerce on the high
seas Being an authority ON naval eff
ficiency and construction. and being a
deep student of the economic ques-
tons involved, his words We're received
with no small amount of interest by
his hearers. His subject was dealt
with soundly, convincingly and with
marked impression. Captain Hobson
did not attempt in any sense of the
word to play upon the feelings of his
hearers by any oratorical efforts, of
which his force and personality ex-
press him more than capable, but to ex-
pound in a logical, straightforward
manner the facts and figures which he
wished to have known. Captain Hob
son has voice of unusual depth, re-
sonance and peculiarly thrilling pow
er. He speaks as though addressing
each hearer personally and in this
manner impresses them greatly with
his earnestness and the force of his
remarks. When becoming thoroughly
warmed to his subject he asked the
permission of the audience to remove
his coat, which, being granted, he did,
later discarded collar and tie, with the
remark that that was the limit.
Captain Hobson has been more or
less in the public eye for the past ff-
teen years, although his name was not
n household word until the Merrimac
episode previous to the battle of San
tiago. The Captain was appointed to
the United States Naval Academy at
Annapolis from Alabama, and entered
that institution in 1885. He graduated
in 1889 and went on two years
cruise to the Mediterranean Sea on
the Chicago, the old flagship of that
squadron. He was then sent to Eu-
rope to take post graduate course
and spent three years in taking the
courses of the French Normal School
of Mines, and the French National