Arizona republican., 1914-10-05

of Mr Bryan, to whom he bears some facial resemblance. His voice, like that of MT. Bryan, is resonant, but clearer and more far reaching than that of the famous Nebraskan and his style is even smoother.
 His first utterance was a tribute to the position that Arizona had reached, but he said that he was not surprised that it had grown so fast and so great after learning from Judge Baker of the drafts that it had made upon Alabama
 He said that it was with pride that he remembered his efforts in congress
 in assisting to secure statehood for Arizona. But he would remember them with still greater pride if it should transpire that Arizona should make use of the powers granted it in the constitution to enroll itself among the dry states.
 MT. Hobson said he had not come to Arizona to tell it's people how to vote. He probably had in mind a cir cular which the Royal Arch had is sued describing him as q well-paid interloper to instruct the people of this state how to attend to their own business At that moment small boys were in the outskirts of the au- dience distributing the circulars of the Royal Arch.
 The question which the people of Arizona were called upon to decide, said MT Hobson, was one which was agitating the nation and would some time have to be decided by the ma ton. What Arizona was about to do was, therefore, the concern of the nation.
 Those who were engaged in the op-
 position to the prohibition amend ment. said MT Hobson, were not let ting AriZonans settle the matter among themselves Vast sums of
 money had been poured into the state to fight the amendment. Compara- lively little of the money used in the wet campaign had been contributed | bv the liquor interests of the state. It has been contributed by the great brewers and distillers. The fight against prohibition was less that of the local saloon keepers than that of l the great liquor interest of the na-
 tion.
 The speaker had not come to tell the people how to vote, but to de | liver to them a simple message, a re- port upon an investigation into which he was led some years ago when de- | tailed to the construction branch or | the United States navy. At that time the question of prohibition was pend ing in Alabama, and MT. Hobson said that he was undecided whether he should vote wet" or dry The ouestion was then in the form of an
 amendment to the constitution. He doubted whether at that time the
 matter was of such an organlc char acter as to warrant it being made d part of the organic law of the state.
 Rut his investigation led ito the con
 cIusion that the subject was very one-sided one. not at all debateabfe I Mir Hobson then spoke of the evil of alcohol from a scientific point or
 view and in the course of his two
 bours' address. in which the audience tool< as great interest at the close
 as at the beginning, every phase ol
 the liquor question was dealt Wllh. 1 The Meeting at Mesa | Tn the forenoon MT. Hobson ad- dressed a large and interested audi
 ence at Mesa, where he also dls- claimed having come to Arizona 10 teach the people of Arizona thelr dutY in the matter before them. Though
 more brief than his Phoenix address, bis talk at Mesa covered the same
 general ground. Much was covered
 by epigrams, one of which was A
 standpatter is a member Of the repup- lican party who cannot get starteu.
 A progressive is one who got starteu and nothing can stop hlm.