Imperial Valley press., 1912-09-24
DEMOCRACY'S PILGRIMAGE
TO HEAR PARTY PROPHET

special train Sunday morning the
Press was given absolute pledge that
only lemonade would be served on
board, and yet the following COM
munication has been received from
Albert Durham, special commissioner
dispatched for this journal.-Ed.
Press.)
Lusty joshing repartee gave the
starting signal to the great unwashed
on the train to hear Bryan or bust"
leaving El Centre at $3.50 o'clock. OPP
portunity to get settled in it's seats
scarcely was sufficient before it made
it's first stop four miles away. How
much the liberal Ell Centre crowd was
augmented by the contingent from
Holtville and other southern points be-
came evident when at Imperial it was
discovered we were running in two
sections, the first consisting of 100
Woodrow Wilson "adherents," tenn
porary or otherwise, and the second of
Collins. How this latter happened
emphasizes the established ability of
the Democratic party always to do
the right thing at the wrong time.
The train was advertised for $50, by
advice of the railroad, so that tardy
arrivals up to o'clock might not get
left But the S. p. seems to have need
yet to learn that Imperial valley al
ways gets there just little ahead of
the other fellow, and the conductor,
running wild on the spur, took the
local management at it's word and
pulled out at $50. Being young man
and not accustomed to seeing the
DemncratS pipu ~ H.,
be excused. But Collins doesn't feel
that way, as he, thinking the train
was pulling onto sidetrack, let it
give him the ta-ta. Collins, the mana
ger of the train. the promoter of the
obsequies-the Democratic party Of
Imperial county-got left. How pro-
phetic. His Cassius, the man with the
Lien and hungry look, politically,
swung on just in time, and so saved
the county party its sponsors, if not
it's parentage.
special train following, for which
the Democratic party supposed the
main special was sidetracking picked
up the remnant and brought it to I'm
perial. where it was safely loaded on
to the main shipment. The train
thereupon pulled out promptly, hav-
ing got its second wind. Through miles
and miles of hay, hog and hot" lands
the four well loaded coaches rolled
everybody so good natured that It
was evident the reunited party had no
thought of taking anything in con
nection with the campaign seriously
Tens of thousands of acres showed
natures munificent art in water color,
blending the Skv'S ~
the sunshines matchless yellow in the
alfalfa's wealth of green. On the main
line more tens of thousands showed
virgin nature, her bosom showered
with scattered emeralds suggesting
her potentiality waiting mans court
ing. The Brawley ladies' roses, their
badge of the desert biossomed. toned
iii the desolatiOn like the wedding
march in n cathedral among The ashes
of those waiting resurrection. hun
dred thousand acres, from Estellc to
Mecca. waiting for No. and its al
lies to touch bnt the rim of the cup
10 its waiting. thirsting lips. On it's
farthest southern edge industry has
set it's golden seal. a big and clean
one, in the barley stubble whose grain
sold this summer at $I.9O a hundred
weight.
Past the Salton laguna, whose Mar
ah waters will soon prove an Elm to
all this valley, and bear proof of its
value at a thousand places of date
trees. The spilings of the old salt
works loom like gibbets of a sunken
city. or is it like the bare upshoots
of more marvellous growth when the
fierce rays of the doubly focused sun
shall rise. convert, evaporate and
distribute its waters made pure ny
natural diStillatiOn over a quarter OF
a million acres of land. How far does
the Croton aqueduct carry water? How
far the Ownes river one? Is it any
thing more to carry the water out?
Gravitation is the power in the first
cases-and il avails for a fall of less
than a mile. The sun is the power in
Salton's future. If no stream can rise
higher than its source, no resultant
above its altitudinous limitation-the
sun is ninety-five millions of miles
high But those things are dreams
just desert dreams-like walking on
the. water, like carriages running
without horses, like man flying as IA
bird in the air, like navigating under
water. Imperial valley is below sea
level. 1t lies in natures concave lens.