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Show ) . ICES 0IT1E II OF A W8RLD PEACE H 1; j If: lloli.son Comes (o Salt Lake On M His Mission Urging B.ig If'4 V WOULD RELEGATE STRIKE H I j TO AR BRITRATIOX CONGRESS ttj Regards Yellow Race As Menace B H to Preservation of Orderly H; Proiu'iely. At tiic Lyric theater Tuesday eve- Hj nhig C'aptaiu ftiehmond F'cnrson Hob- ! "'3 son, Congressman from Alabama. dc-HJ dc-HJ t ( liverod one of the best lectures that, has H'l ,4 been heard in this city for sonic lime. rJ He took for hi? .subject, "America, If i Mistress of the. Seas,',' and told of tho WrV lieccssit)' of the United Sintos control- W f ling the oceans. His talk was not for u ' war, but for a larger navy, which would i cause the nations of Kit rope and Asia 'if l tu respect n? and insure peace. Con- hi I grossmnu Hobson was introduced by j St 1 Captain .Joseph E. Caiue. who acted H; , as cliniriiinii. He spoke in part as fol fl . V ' -''The national defense is the most h. j i important question before the Congress -"liiv. of the United States today. We can L'! j j ' not. leave our self-preservation to the Wrtrj i other nations, ft is folly to allow the H' M oilier great, powers of the earth to arm Bh'E: ! themselves and America to depend on Wn'j their .justice for protection. I hope Hi I- j , for the dav to come when rhe nations Hh-i' 1 of the carl'h will have a collective pro- : lection, but let America take the lender- j j Hh iji in this. H 'i ( Insure Peace. H.jjj "There are 1wo ways for pel t'-pres- ' ) ervation. one the army and I he oilier Hi'li wealth, which means great navies i i where it is possible for a country to Hj J . protect herself with tho navy. All na- Hh'. lions can not do this on account of Htj'tj land frontier, but America has a great HHItj coast line and should hasten to take Hf (1 j advantage of this means of protection. HHj j i Unless Hie nation controls Hie-seas, it Hul'j must have an army. We want a navy HjHj! to keep us from being attacked and HhJ, such a one that m nation will dure Hi M ' I attack us. Py this means we are sure i fi 1 ' of peace and should there ho war, the K J navy will be of riieh a size that it will Xy brill"- victory instead of defeat. I' Ju the" Atlantic, coast thcro are. HT j oO.OOO miles of waterway while the 1 M four groat po.wers of Rurope have all Ht'ff together only -WOO miles. The coast Ufj defense is fnadeqtvpte and, therefore, V) 1 ' I lie nuvy must be depended upon to HM' secure us. On the exposed waterways B' r : of tho United States there is more K;'; properly than in all the rest of the flj U world. We aro becoming a great, pro- H H 1 during nation and must have a market H'V ' "nr our products acros? the water. Un- H' i less we control the sea wo can not, K I hold our trade with foreign countries, v Pacific Unprotected, fl ' " Hnglaud has al the present time Hl in the Atlantic 7S warships; Franco. H A M f!erniany, L'7; while America has H R but five. Vfe are unable to protect B f. our own coast, let alone trying to up- Hfj hold the .Monroe Doctrine. We have H' r "lie fleet and two oceans and tho coast B il defense on the Pacific is even moro fn- H M adenunte than thai, on the Atlantic. B i j We can nor. guarantee our own people B ' protection with the navy of the pres- jjH y enr Bi'l "Lnnnjc the trouble in San Franeis- tl co, with the. Japanese school children, " i lie I. nited Stares was forced to sub- H g in 1 1 to Japan onlv because wc did not. j j hare ;i r.aw large enough to put, a fleet I z. t in the Pacific to protect us. Japan B I V knew this and took advantage of (he BI a, V fact. We wow have a fleet in the F'a- Si i eifie. and Japan is iuiet, but we will BJ h i again have to submit to her insults as T" soon as tho ships return to the At In n- Bj y ; tic. Ja)an is sending her trained sol- 1- 14 diers to this country as emigrants, and ; it is of supreme importance that wc hi control the .Pacific, lik i r Navy Saves Money, I. f . f " The time is coming when Europe ' I ' will ti(! our bauds while Asia crushes i I us. The only security for tho United I J States is to build a navy big enough , Ifr ! to control the Atlantic and the Pacific It at the samo time. Congress has author- , ) j.cd two new battleships to be built., a j . i Already all thCnalions of I'urope have ; greater navies than us and it. does , i , nor Inke them as long to build ships. i j. Under the way things are at present j . it takes five years for the United States I to build a ship, while in Europe it takes ' hut two. Building battleships is a t-H great expense, but is not as expensivo r I' as war. If tho United Stales had three '( J more battleships before the Kpanish- i -i American war, costing $10,000,000, t, ' there would have been no war and the ;j ' $r0,ono,0()(j. snenf foolishly fitting up : 1 1 old i-hips would have lmeli saved and j ; i the country ahead $10,000,000. A great r navy is the surest and shortest way ; ' j 1" peac. i j; Tn conclusion C'apiain Hobson said V that the war clouds were uow gathor- ! ing between the white and yellow races i . and th; onlv way a war can be averted IM j is by the United States obtaining con- 1 ' trol of the seas. To build warships is a great deal cheaper than to go to i war and if the present. Congress does ( ' not provido for the ships needed the , people will elect men to the next Con- r ' gress who will. I if , Resolution Adopted. B eonimittee consisting of Dr. Uciiry !; I j La ottc. chairman; J. IL roylc and BLtjj Judge J. A. Street, was appointed by Br 5f "i fhairmau Caine to present t ho follow- H(l j ji ' ing' resolution, which was- unanimously Hii ; , adopted by tho audience. The resolu- H-j t lion h.as been put before '110 cities in ' ,! ,.. the United States and in forty-thrco Hl I States, and all haw taken it up with Hj j 1 a great deal of interest. ; ' CongreiNinan Hobson has put his jl ' whole soul and body into the work ho J 1, ) ' i;- carrying on, and any one who henrs J i his talk can not but. bo convinced that H( if' 'he is right in all he says. Not once dur- 1' i"g his talk did he in the least nian- Bl II ' I ,,,r !1lvoi;:,te a war, but plainly showed Bll l'ia' a Avav would come unless the Unit- L I. cd States had a margin of supcriority ; ,F jU suilicient to gain the respect of the ,1 other nations. The following is the res- H' i.L olution as adopted and which will be PI l 1 presented to the entire public for ap- j i , ; proval: f'' ' American Initiative. I' i 1 fu I lie Iutere.ut of peace and justice 31 . ; rtesolvcfJ ly this gaincrlng of rcp- 1 1 1 1 j' reriCTTintlve I'ltlzens of the city o' Halt 1 II j . J.ako and Suite of Utuli: ;j 5 ' . 1... THkI general treallCK of arbitration jl i j , Hhoplil V negotiated by tho United ll Btatca "lvlt1' Juris- diction to the International court at The Hague over aa many classes of controversies contro-versies as tho other contracting power in each cayo can be Induced to troimfer from the field rjf buttle to liio precincts of courts of justice. 2.. That the United States should de-claie de-claie In favor of a permanent international interna-tional congress containing: representatives from every nation, to aHsemblo periodically period-ically and automatically for the purpose of suugesUtiE riueli changes In th law of nations and hi the method of ItH administration ad-ministration as Hie current of evoiila may make desirable and practicable. 3, That present conditions call for the Immediate adoption of a progressive naval programme that will jdv the United Slateo a navy capable of performing Ils doty. I. e , of protecting our vnst sea-coast, sea-coast, our great and evi-r-lncrcasini; volume vol-ume of ocean-going commerce, our growing grow-ing Interests in foreign markets, our dis-iunt dis-iunt poosesrtlons. and of executing effectively ef-fectively all tho Just foreign policies of the Nation. ' 1. That the chairman appoint a committee com-mittee of three to call upon the Mayor, who is hereby request od to Join with said commit let- In communicating tills resolution to the Representative In Congress Con-gress of this district. Hie two Senators from this State, and tho Provident of tho United States,' -m ' |