The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-12-10
Hat Passing Dampens Ardor
As the Captain Awaits
Vainty for Plaudits.
OSCULATORY HERO
OUT-TEDDY-S T. R.
Says National Prohibition Is
EnrOute-WOrldwide
To Follow.

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pressed and distracted the crowd o.
400 men and women who heard the
heroic Capt. Richmond Pearson Hob
son deliver his Oration on nationa
prohibition last night that they forgot
to cheer or applaud his remarks wher
he closed his address.
The only time, in fact, that he did
get ''hand" from his auditors was
when the captain declared that after
having lived for several years in Eu-
rope, sojourned in Africa, South
America, Asia and the islands of the
seas, he would rather be just plain
everyday citizen of the U. S. A. than
4 king in any other land.
The mans good looks, winning ways
and fine personality won for him the
oSculatory compliments of scores of
pretty women once upon time, posed
better than a Partisan manniquin as
he rolled out the throaty sentence and
the succinct sentiment.
Auditors-nay, spectators as well as
aduitors is a truer way of describing
those who witnessed and heard the
former Congressman's remarks.
In the course of his little talk, Hob
son quite Theodore Teddy.
There seemed, at times, to be no limit
to his supply of "I's" and "me's."
Hobson's address was delivered in
the Centenary Methodist Church. He
became as enthusiastic in mis- speech as
any "peace-at-any-price" advocate and
announced that following the victory
that is due to arrive soon for the
cause Of the HobsOn Constitutional
and nationwide prohibi-
tion, that then it will be up to the
United States to start the ball rolling
for worldwide prohibition, modelled
after the scheme of the famous Ala
bama hero. None other than cap"
Hobson.
Hobson's secret for stopping the war
is to stop anyone from selling the
Colonel" his flicker"
Despite the fact that mankind seems
to be able to raise pretty good corn
and wheat and lot more Of it, and
despite the fact that modern intellectS
have been able to figure out new COM
binations in the world of finance, en-
science, economy or politics
that have had anything bested anyone
ever heard Of, Hobson stood up last
night and proved to his own satisfac-
ton and by scientific deduction that
the race is on the high road to the
demnition bow-wows.
National prohibition is coming, he
assured his crowd of listeners and the
trend of his argument was that il. will
afford a panacea for all the ills of
Perhaps then, the defeated will
win; both political parties will hold all
the offices; there will be no such things
as "pie" squabbles and Hobson will
find himself in the hall of fame.
Allthat has to be done is to get both
the National conventions 'lined up,"
he said, indulge in little insidious
lobbying and bring pressure to bear"
upon Congress to get the amendment
through two thirds vote in both
houses and then perform the simple
trick of having the amendment rati-
fed by the legislatures of three
fourths of the states in the Union.
That's all.
Hobson entertained his auditor-spec-
tators with a graphic picture and re-
production of the part he played in
the sinking Of the Merrimac in the
mouth of Santiago harbor when in
process of "bottling" up the Spanish
fleet.
Even then Hobson wasn't a very
good "bottler" for the Merrimac's hull
was ripped to pieces and sunk before
he had piloted it far enough into the
mouth of the harbor.
But anyway his story about how Mr..
Hobson got his volunteer men to-
gether; how 81" watched them keenly
as "1'' impressed the danger of the
mission upon them; how "I" ordered
them to sit "tight" and not to "rock
the boat" too soon; how "I held" them