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Show HOBSON FEARS FOR HAWAII AND THE PHILIPPINES NEW YORK, Feb. 2 Tn an address here last night, ( apt. Richmond P. Hobson, speaking of the Japanese question ques-tion in California, said: "The ultimatum which Japan has given this country savs, 'Take back our people to your public schools in Cal ifornia or take the consequences. ' That is only a pretext. The trouble is, Japan wants to control the commerce and markets mar-kets of the far Fat. She is determined to drive America out of the Philippine Philip-pine islands. "If the Panama canal was completed com-pleted we might be able to protect the Pacific coast, but we ure helpless now, and should Japan strike, the Philip pines and the Hawaiian islands would I he lost to us. This is the real situ- ! ation, and it is a pity that we have not ! strong fleets, both oil the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to protect our interests j and keep Japan from attacking us War with Japan is inevitable unless we I can convince the financiers of Europe I and the people that there is reallv no CMiise for Japan to go to war with us, ' ' |