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Show WOULD PREPARE FIR WAR WHILEAT PEACE Congressman Richmond P. Hobson of Alabama Makes Speech i By International News Service. VBW TORK, Dec 12. A plain spoken and resounding warning against our na tlonal unprepaxedneas for war was de Uvered by Richmond Pearson Hobson. congressman from Alabama and hero of the Merrimae, at the annual dinner of the Pennsylvania society ln the Waldorf Astoria tonight. We are standing on the threshold of a new era we of the United Statea of America, be said. We have not completed the work of Internal development, but the United Statea as a nation has completed Its ml norlty We are figuratively speaking past our twenty first birthday and must go out in tbe world among nations of the world The time has come when we must assume the responsibility that our size and wealth has thrust upqn us Tbe state of almost universal war which ex lets turns the attention of the Lnlted Statea away from its own Interior Our national defensel Blind is he who does not see that today war is a modern thing a sclentlflo problem de mandlng long preparation. We must now begin to construct a permanent policy of defense without It, we may feel no security War today Is so stu pendous, so swift that no people can make preparations for defense after war la declared An adequate preparation Is the very fonndat on for the establish ment and maintenance of a permanent Influence ln the councils of the nations of the world Our hones e who dwell upon tbe seaboards are within gunshot of the water within easy reach of the armies which might land without oppoa tion and proceed without molestation Here there are 0 000 000 homes and $37 000 000 In property open to attack from the ocean ln our demand for an adequate navy it Is for us to suggest, not to criticise We must build build build Among the other guesta were B shop J H Dar ington of Harrlsburg United Mates Senators George T Oliver and Boies Penrose of Pennsj Ivania, Governor Charles R Mil er of De aware Major Rudo ph Blankenburg of Phi ade phla, Dr Henry S Drinker of Le gh university and Alba B Johnson of Philadelphia. |