The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-08
TERRIFIED COMMITTEE
HEARD CANNON ROAR
Faces Grew Longer and Longer and Ears Larger and
Larger as Hobson Pictured Annihilaton Of 1ss
America by Japan. ~

America
Especial to The Times -Dlspatch.l
DENVER, COL. July 7.--Richmond
Pearson Hobson. who sank the collier
iMerrimac in Santiago harbor when lie
was an officer OF the United States
navy, and who is now a Democratic
congressman from Alabama. just
raised Cain tonight before the COM
;,nittee on resolutions. Mr.. Hobson--
beg pardon.Captain Hobson, for
Everybody calls him that, went before
the committee and asked to be heard
and the committee decided to have an
,open session for that purpose. For
. more han an hour the young Alabama
4 representative talked and talked while
fifty more or less distinguished Demo-
,crats sat and listened with solemn
faces and open mouths while he de-
tclnred over and over again that war
with. Japan was certain and that ter
tribe things were going to happen
sisoon.,
gss About to De Wiped Ont.
japan was prepared and itching fer
slight, he announced, and unless the
democratic party adopted lot OF resc-
buttons which he presented about ur-
building the army and the navy and
keeping Japan at bay until our re-
sources were developed sufficiently to
lick everybody on earth. we We're going
to he licked good and hard. and would
lose Hawaii and the Philippines and
have all sorts Of dreadful things hap
pen to us, in his opinion
aForeign war is imminent" said
tHobson, and the party In power vii!
be held responsible when that wal
comes. I believe that 1t is not unlikel,
that the Democratic party will be II
mower when the struggle comes. which
viii he before the next national con
yeution. and the party in power VII
never get In power for hundred years
- for5it will be held responsible for the
humiliation that will come to us a:
the result of that war"
The Seat of Trouble.
Speaking of Pearl Harbor, In Hawaii
which the United States is fortifyinP
he said:
..That harbor there is going to set
tie the destiny OF the world. Amerlc.
nossesses 1T and Japan wants 1T. But
more than that, Japan wants the Paci
: s3 nc slope. That is natural. Unless W.
control the Pacific Ocean that slope be
s8,onps 10 Japan JaPa~ohas made com
ss5tSn1ete arrangements and was reaoy iel
var last year, and would have gone Z
war if we had not surrendered oh'
has promised to restore the mo'lal 'l
IN The Hawaiian Island and has prom
ised 10 grant Independence to the fnii
irnines. she has added eight di'lsioh!
To her army since the Russian wa.
making fifteen hundred thousallo mi M,
she has added to her navy. fief ~,
1arv prep6rations may be saia 70 Y
complete. now
s a .hirs and is preparing TO put out an,
Eatt,er 0oooo,000. She has ARRANGED
33or an insurrectlon in the Phllippihes
.ra has sent arms there. Thlrty-.Mo
ihousand Japanese have gone INTO I'm ~
twaii in the last two years. anu '', Urs
Japanese soldiers are In Hawai- wall, " !, !.
s$s have force of 200 men there. 9apa ).
ss5 has SIS. 600 trained soldiers in the onlteo
rta+as On tire Pacific Coast they are
5rganized into military clubs. Secre'
~ raryfce men investigated and found ~
II .ha sanace OF four blocks in San iran
disco SIX japanese shootlng galleries
maintained by these clubs.
Committee Terrified.
Hobson told other terrible things. and
,yplalned how the war would be fought
Inside of nine months Japan wouio
but 100000 trained men on the Pacific
Coast, using Hawaii as base ou.
forts were not half manned; 10000
ks& Japanese coul0 cellie ~ oSh'''a -
forts on the Pacific Coast and take
them.
In the Spanish War, he said, our meT
}s died off like flies. Our death rate wa:
greater than in tho Russian army anf
The Japanese War. This was because
we had not an organization, Wink
Japan had. Then he told the commit
S teemen, whose faces We're growing long
E43 s5ArS a nd Ion ger and whose ears We're prick
Ia n a
That absolutely the only chance TO-
NJ this nation 10 continue on earth wa!
SBgf TO use some Of her surplus wealth Y
control the Pacific Ocean. After that
Hobson told some inside things ahou
President Roosevelt He said that tn
President, instead of telling the Japan
esa that they could not Invade ~
sanctity of orr institutions when the
X 3gs wanted The government TO Jump OF
y California for not letting japanese
subjects attend the san. Francisc
schools, went into the highways IN
s5S59S byways to find means to placate lapaT
S3s Also the President had to write a
4 @ assay on the merits and morals OF IN
japanese. Also3he had TO appeal prac
lically on his knees In order to placat
ss5 them, .'and," he said, 'he had TO at
S the san Francisco School Board /
ronle East and then so back and glv
IN to the Japanese.''
Ate DIRT, He said.
That's loo true said membe
~ " the committee.
EVERYTHING that am telling 70
is true answered Hobson, and Ii
went on to say that II had been
ss1ss, ,'nlost hun,lia,ing spectacle that W
had Sslobbered over Japan and then Il
ESS Them huntliate u.s.. In spite of wha
SjsS he had said previously, however, !,
N ga Ne praise tn President Roosevelt
n 4: AM no. HE q eclared, was patriot enoug
lay saowii on the earl n aud ca TIL
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~ used tos ne bitter against him