The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-05-22

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National Press Club and Washington
correspondent for a string Of news
papers, recently sent out the follow
ing:
The Southern Society of Washing
ton heard two remarkable speeches on
the South the other night. One was
made by that unrestrained and, sad to
relate, generally obtrusive Prohibition
list and woman sufiragist, Richard
Pearson Hobson, Congressman from
Alabama when the Chataqua season
does not interfere, and 1t lated for an
hour and a half. The other speech
was delivered in twenty minutes by
Senator John Sharp Williams, Of Mis-
sissippi.
While Mr.. Hobson was speaking one
had but to close his eyes and feel that
the speaker was clothed in a suit of
glistening armor. On his FURNISHED
and spiked helmet rested a terrible
eagle, wings outspread, eyes angry and
swapping, hack feathers on the back
OF its neck raised and ruffled and. with
mouth open and tongue protruding 1t
screamed in an ear-bursting manner.
Sabres, swords, machetes,, clay
mores, razors, barlows, case knives
and other evil-looking cutlery were
intermixed with double-action and au-
tomato pistols, shotguns, carbines,
squirrel rifles, cannon and blow-guns,
and were strewn all over the stage.
Great clouds, black and ugly clouds
of smoke, like in the storm scene in
King Lear, rolled and rerolled across
the mental vision, while innumerable
flags and banners, starry and brilliant,
and held by imaginary hands, undulat-
ed in perfect time with the strident
sound of martial music which came
out of the be-clouded sky.
AS already suggested, this kept up
for ninety minutes, and the listener
didn't know whether to yell for Joy or
skedaddle in mortal terror.
It Was "Some" Speech.
Our beloved Southland was pictured
as the most wonderful section of the
world. Fairest women, finest men,
richest soil and all that sort Of thing.
But above everything, look you at yon-
der unfurled banner, as it waves before
the breeze. That is the great consider
alton. TITS the flag; yes, ali yes. THE
FLAG! So went the Hobson speech,
as said twice before, for full hour and
half. And the National Theatre had
, been packed from the orchestra to the
, topmost gallery with Southerners and
} friends Of Southerners. Yes, sir: that
speech lasted for an hour and-no; It
/ isn't being repeated too much, for II
can't be!-thirty minutes.
hr. 80 m!
? At the end Of the desire Of the au'
, ditor was TO stand up and stretch, like
in the sevenh inning.
As the last echo Of the cannon's
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f, and the acrid smell Of gun
powder hastily Joined the last echo
Senator Williams rose. The twinkle
, In his eye and the smile on his lipi
-. brought serenity and tranquility.
ut Is not the flag, 1t is what the fae
flies over" said the Senator. The au
a. kAf&Ir kaA
+ "And I don't know that we have thu
II richest soil In the country" continu
ed the Senator. There are sections
IL In Ohio and Illinois that have sol
IL that may be better than our best
But that is neither here nor there. W,
have a land of ideals. Our ideals hav,
n made the South wonderful. While W,
1T are rich industrially and commercial
of ly, we are richer in our ideals"
A Real Diagnosis.
Quantity and in drawing voice, tn
* distinguished Mississippian talked o
Is the genuine patriotism Of the South
ct erner, after giving a lot Of solid an
interesting facts about the develop
ment Of the South since the Civ
War.
"The Englishman loves his nativ
- land like a man ordinarily loves hi
home" said he. 1.-THE Frenchma
loves France-well, in a way peculia