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Show HOBSON ATTACKS WILSON AND BRYAN Washington, Jan. 29. In a final appeal in the house tonight for a larger navy. Representative Hobson of Alabama declared it was his firm conviction that the United States has secured peace with Japan only by giving assurances of speedy retirement retire-ment from the Philippines Moreover, More-over, in a part of his speech, which went into the record without actually being delivered on the floor, the Alabama Ala-bama representative said he believed that when the American fleet wont around the world during the Roosevelt Roose-velt administration It was allowed to go to Japan only with the assurance that it would be out of the Pacific ocean by a fixed time. Representative Hobson declared in the course of his debate that President Presi-dent Wilson and Secretary Bryan were the greatest obsuwies to nation h1 defense, and said it seemed singular sin-gular that the movement for prohibition prohi-bition likewise found Its greatest opposition op-position from this administration. President a Liability. "If national prohibition and national flefense are the greatest questions in America, as 1 believe them to be," he said, "then the president of the United States, instead of being the country's asset, is the country's great est liability " Formal denial by Secretary Bryan that the administration's Philippine policy had been in any way aft ted by negotiations with Japan or that the subject had been discussed here or in Toklo, was quoted by Mr Hob son with the remark that this did not change his belief, as he would expect the secretary to denv It. "I am further convinced," Mr Hobson Hob-son continued "that our first inquiry into the intentions of Japan in selz lng Kinochow and the islands in the Pacific will not be followed up, at least by this administration, and that Japan as a price of peace will be given giv-en a free hand in China with the prospect of the complete overthrow of the open-door policy, leaving China to its fate to become a governed nation, na-tion, while the commerce of America, which In cotton goods alone fell off over $20,000,000 In Manchuria after Japanese occupation, will be at the mercy of a competitor; while the overthrow over-throw of the balance of power in the Pacific would lead to an inevitable war." Reviews War In Europe. Representative Hobson said he had felt for somo time that the fleet would never go to the Pacific under the present administration. He reviewed re-viewed the situation in Europe, referring refer-ring to criticisms of America's conduct con-duct by both sides in the present war and to "arbitrary- treatment of American Amer-ican ships," and declared that the situation sit-uation closely paralleled the conditions condi-tions which led to the war with France in 1300 and to that with England Eng-land In 1812. "Napoleon's retirement, which led to the war with France In 1800," he said, "was not as intense as the growing grow-ing resentment of Germany today at tho great source of supply of war ma torials her enemy allies are finding in America. Great Britain's attitude toward our purchase of ships of Germany Ger-many is nothing short of menacing." All of these things, Mr. Hobson earnestly insisted, proved the imperative im-perative necessity of strengthening the United States navy far beyond the point contemplated in the present program. He discussed the navy at lengtlu compared It with the sea forces for-ces of foreign powers, and appealed for a reorganization of the navy, for more men and more ships. no |