Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-25

her infancy; she is just beginning to
develop, and that we must develop In
accordance with the conditions that
exist here. Now, to get down to my
argument. am going to say 10 you
tonight, as 1 say to every other audi
ence in the state of California that
so far as our railroad companies are
concerned that so far as our banking
institutions are concerned; that so
far as our corporate wealth is con-
cerned: that so far as capital is con-
cerned1 in the state of California, l
shall not. if I am elected governor OF
this state, give them any the pest OF
it, but / shall not give them any the
worst of it. am not going TO WORK
upon any of your prejudices and pas
sions. / am not simply here to intiu-
ence you for the moment, but to tell
Won the things that I believe in and
give YOU a chance to think them over.
I stand for the lawNQf equal rights.
I want these great forms of corporate
wealth to keep their places, but l VIII
not promise you, If I am elected gov
ernor of this state, that l WIN get ous
the shillalah that the father and
mother of Tim Spellacy brought over
from the old country and hammer
every corporation on the head simply
because it has adopted the corporate
form of doing business.
WILL BE JUST IN DOINGs
"My attitude will be fair. My atti-
tude will be just. I will stand for
what is fair and square because want
To encourage the upbuilding of this
state. I believe that you are an up
building people. / think the people of
this state possess constructive capaci-
tv-constructive genius-and most Of
us come to It honestly, by the way, Tor
some, like myself, are the descendants
of pioneer mothers and fathers, VINO
wears ago left their homes In the east,
travelling In prairie schoonerS and OK
wagons, and came across the plains.
Many Of us are the descendants of men
and women who came around the
Horn, and many Of us are descendants
of men and women who came from the
middle west and the Atlantic coast,
and there are some of us Who are
descendants of those who came from
foreign points to settle In our glorious
America. Then, also there has come
down to us a mellowing or sWeeten1ng
influence of another race tnat IN
habited this soil of California long
wears before the army of Anglo Saxons
poured through the passes of the
mountains to our sun-kissed shore
sweetened and mellowed the lives and
civilization Of the Anglo-Saxon race
the commercial race. So we pass on to
our wonderful opportunities Of indus
trial development, of agricultural de-
velopment.
ARID LANDS AWAIT CAPITAL
1--WE see over in these two great val
leys-the San Joaquin and Sacra-
mento-hundreds of thousands acres
of land lying bare and arid, or semi
arid, awaiting the touch of capital,
waiting for the men with the money
who will go over in the Sierras where
the SHOWS of winter are held until
melted by summer suns, to build great
storage reservoirs in these mountains,
build aqueducts and bitches and bring
those waters down to where 1t can be
used to reclaim these arid sections.
The mineral wealth Of this state has
hardly been touched. Here a great
hillside must be cleared away. The
pine, manzanita and fir must be
cleared off and replaced with the vine
Look in every section, in your own
section, of the state; you can't go TO
any city in the entire state that you
do not find opportunity for investment
of wealth, and the reputation we want
to build up is that the man with the
honest dollar may come into this state
and invest his wealth and that wealth
will receive every protection OF the
law. This is sort of policy propose