DEMOCRAT JINGOISM.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 247, 11 July 1908, Page 5

DEMOCRAT JINGOISM.

HOBSON ONCE MORE. WOULD TALK FIERCELY TO JAPAN. (BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) Now York, July 9. At the Democratic Convention at Denver yesterday Captain Hobson (tho well-known naval officer of Santiago fame, and a member of Congress for Alabama) urged in committee tho inclusion of a plank in the party platform insisting on an incrcass in the navy. America, he said, ought to keep a fleet that would bo able to control the Atlantic. When that was ready ho would tell Japan that America. , did not care a Continental damn what happened, and would advocate an alliance with China. QUITE A THRILLER. "WAR WITH JAPAN." ALLEGED REMARK BY ROOSEVELT.; (Rec. July 10, 11.20 p.m.) . New York, July 10. Captain Hobson created a commotion at tho Convention by declaring that a few weeks sinco President Roosevelt said in his presence that there was great probability of war with Japan. CAPTAIN HOBSON'S PROPAGANDA. Captain, Richmond Pearson Hobson, naval constructor, has kept himself fairly constantly before the public since he sank the collier Morrimac'in Santiago Harbour, during the Spanish war. In 1902, he published "America must be Mistress of the Seas," and in 1903 lie followed it. up with ".Why America should Hold Naval Supremacy," aud clinched the argument in 1904 with "Paramount Importance of Immediate Naval Construction." Yet four years later an unfeeling Congress cuts down President Roosevelt's four-battleship programme by half.' - . .Captain Hobsoh's viows of Eastern politics must have been radically altered by recent events. Not very long ago he wrote an article painting the dangers to America of a united East. On this occasion he declared that "of all tho forms of war preparations by Japan, 1 the most formidable and far-reaching is hor systematic preparation of China with a view to drawing upon the resources of.this empiro. The Chinese for years ' have longed for • the chance to swarm over America. There can be no question that the peoplo of China would gladly join Japan in the conquest of the Pacific Slope."