The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-11-22
WAR AND PEACE IN
FRIENDLY CONTEST
Former Gov. Hanly Describes
Horrors of War and Beau
ty of Disarmament.
HOBSON FOR BIG NAVY
Lauds Hanly's Oratory, but
Riddles the Logic of
His Plea.
HOBSON FOR BIG NAVY

War and peace clashed in conflict at
the Coliseum last evening. Captain
Richmond P. Hobson, of Merrimac
fame, led the iron throated forces Of
war, and former Governor ]. Frank
Hanly championed the cause of peace.
Before the wordy conflict, each, like
chivalrous knights of old, lauded the
character! and attainments of the 9TH
er, but in the contest proper, neither
spared the feelings nor the argument
of his opponent.
When the smoke of the conflict set
tied, it was apparent that Hobson had
practically ,raked Hanly's craft fore
and aft, spiked the enemy's guns, scut-
tied the craft, nailed Hanly's flag
| upside down on his own ship, and with
wars flags merrily flying from every
stick and rope sailed triumphantly out
Of the engagement.
| Hanly relied on pointed epigram and
oratorical wiles, backed by an array OF
statistics showing the cost of militar-
ism. to win the debate. Hobson, on the
other hand, planted himself on the
platform as if he were on the bridge
of cruiser, and with an array of logic
and appeal to reason, pleaded the
cause of war. Logic met oratory, and
logic conquered
Definition of War.
War is insanity become epidemic
said Gov. Hanly, defining the term
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mercy and insatiable; it is desolation
and confusion welded; moral and phv'
sical ruin, a hurricane from hell:
doom's muster day; collective and
scientific suicide, debauch of immor.
ality and blood; a saturnalia of pillage
and plunder; a festive of fiends and an
orgy of the devil; it is hell let loose
among men to kill women and outrage
children"
Governor Hanly's description nj
war is masterpiece rejoined Hob
son. Il hope he will publish it, for il
is literary gems' ,-ee~es-z=ar-s..,-.
With this sop thrown at the former
governors literary attainments, the
doughty captain trained his thirteen
inch guns on the lack of logic in Han
ly's defense Of the proposition. Resolv
ed, That the nations should disarm.
my worthy opponent has not shown
one reason why one nation should dis
arm. l submit that if Great Britain
for instance, should today muster out
her $4,000 soldiers in India, tomorrow
$50 million persons in India would be
gin to kill and murder natives and for
eigners. Should Russia disarm, the
barbarous peoples of her countrie:
would begin an era of murder anc
rapine. And so down the list
Hobson argued from the premise
that collected power and force con
centrated in the hands of the civilized
nations is necessary to hold in checl
the myriad half-civilized people of th'
globe.
Power a Blessing.
Power does not mean abuse. TIL,
Almighty has permitted power ant
force to accumulate in proportion t.
the capacity of nations to administe
it. Power in society holds the thief il
check; power among nations hold
back the lawless hordes.
Not until you are sure that tn
state can protect you are you justified
in going without arms; SO until an In
ternational organization shall hav
power adequately to settle difference
among nations by resource to courts
must we have ornaments"
Hobson postulated that the Unite'
States is the nation that by an exter
sive navy now should maintain tn
Monroe doctrine in America. and tn
open door policy in the Orient. "Equa
ity of opportunity on the high seas.
said he Equal commercial opportun
ty for all nations. with the Unite
States to insist that this opportunit
be preserved. is the step that vii
bring about disarmament of the ns
, tions"
Hanly insisted that no war ever ha
moral justification. For every prir
ciple gained, three are lost, and 70
every wrong redressed two hundre
wrongs are inflicted. The economi
waste of war staggers the imagination
five hundred million on her armies an
navies The cost Of maintaining tn
European armies will gradually brea
down the nations.
"The alternatives are either disarn
, ament or a social upheaval of tn
masses destroying all governmental il
, stitutions. An international tribuns
can settle all controversies easily"
Hobson pleaded for a navy to pr
, tect our extensive coast line. H
showed the ease with which q foreig
nation may invade our countr
through the ports Of the Pacific coas
About $50 persons heard the debat
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