Imperial Valley press., 1914-10-28

ural gas, water power and iron ore,
and the development of all thereof
under government ownership in such
a way as to prevent monopoly and
as to destroy the monopoly of such
energies as now exists.
My Republican opponent, Mr..
Knowland, believes in the old theory
that the eway to develop this country
is to give away as rapidly as pos
sible through our laws all of its nat
ural resources to that little group
of men who have already secured such
large part of them. Mr. Knowland
thinks that those men know better
1 how 20 develop our natural resources
than we do and that prosperity can
only he secured and maintained by
turning all of our public property over
to them to develop for us. The pres
ent menacing inequality of wealth in
about by our lawmakers instead of
/ by our law-breakers. Nine-tenths of
the Injurious monopOlies in the Unit
( ed States have been created by our
laws and Mr.. Knowland belongs to
/ that class of economic thinkers who
believe that our country could not
have Teen developed and cannot yet
be developed in any other way. He
telieves in keeping things as they are
or in other words in standing pat,h
so that those who already have will
continue to get and those those who
have nothing will continue to get
nothing.
My Democratic opponent, James d..
Phelan, possesses Progressive inelina-
tions, but his vision is somewhat OBJ
scured by the fact that he inherited
millions which are the result of that
especial privilege which is known to
political economists as unearned In
crement of real estate. Mr.. Phelan
is man of high character and he
would undoubtedly make much be1-
ter senator than Mr.. Knowland. Mr.
Phelan claims that he could do more
for California than either Mr.. Know
land OF myself by reason of the fact
that he is in haromny with President
Wilson. The fact is, however, that
I am on as cordial and friendly terms
with Secretary Franklin X. Lane Of
the Interior department as Mr.. Phe-
Ian IS and that | am alsc on friendly
terms with President Wilson and en-
tertain a very high opinion of his
character. l care nothing for party
labels and would give President Will
son my cordial support in all mat
tiers in which I agreed with him,
whereas would oppose him very en-
ergeUically but very respectfully i'll
all matters wherein ! did not agree
with him. l do not believe in the
party caucus and would not 60 into one.
believe that all public business
should be done in the open and that
/ SNCIy OCiIctIOl NOJG
to his conscience and his convictions.
Mr.. Phelan, on the contrary, could not
remain in harmony with the Demo-
cratic administration unless he at
tended the secret party caucuses and
submitted to the rule of a ma ajority
thereof Under such circumstances he
might be compelled to vote for things
in which he did not believe. Some Of
these things might be bad for Cali
fornia as well as for the rest of the
/ United States. If he refused to COM
Fly with and abide by the party eau
Gus decision he would at once be
ciasseC as an insurgent and would
have less influence with his own par
| ty than | would have as an indepen-
cent who is willing to support all
Democratic measures in which he be-
Ilieves and who is not under any par
ty obligation to support any measures
in which he does not believe. This
contest, however, is only between Mr..
Knowland and myself and there is no
chance whatever of Mr. Phelan be-
ing elected You will readily recall
that Roosevelt and johnson secured
a few more votes than President Will
son two years ago in California. At
that time President Wilson received
all Of the Democratic votes in this
state as well as the votes of nearly
all of the Taft Republicans and the
LaFollette Republicans. The total
Democratic registration in California
at present is about 100000. The to-
tai Progressive is about 225,000 and
the total Republican registration is
about 100000. If Mr. Phelan receives
the votes of all those registered as
Democrats and / receive the votes of
all chose registered as Progressives,
We will each still need at least 100,
COO gotes Of those registered as Re-
publicans in order TO be elected.
Which one of ne cap cacurp tho Iaroar