Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-12-17

made by the states outside the
state of California to effect a
reconciliation but without
avail. We maintain that it
is highly improper for
the states to attempt to de-
termine any matter that is
purely local to one state, and
we refused to allow q local dis
eension to injure those things
that are of vital interest.
THE delegates of our states
We're selected by our respec-
tive governors and by civic
bodies thereof, and consisted
of men fully conversant with
the interests of the states and
the real purposes Of the
league, and we refused to be
drawn from their proper con-
sideration into a local fight
which should not have been
dignified by permitting it to
come before the convention"
The position assumed by the
states outside of California was
practically universally endorsed
by the press of California. In fact
SO far as I have been able to as
certain, it was endorsed by all of
the press of California outside of
the city of Los Angeles and by a
part of the press of Los Angeles.
A fair expression of the resent
ment is evidenced by statement
of the press contained in the
editorial of the San Bernardino
Daily Sun of December II, as fol-
lows:
IF the convention of the
League of the Southwest at
Riverside was a farce in itself,
a failure as to results and prob
ably tragedy SO far as the or
ganization is concerned, let no.
body think it was not of amaz-
ing educational benefit to all
participating. That such a Sc
quel could spring from such
conditions may be so strange
as to seem impossible, but it is
the simple fact.
1--WE take it that the league
Is dead beyond recall, and
that two elements conspired to
bring about the fatality, each
of them determined to control
or to put the organization out
of existence. One of these was
the public ownership extrem-
lists of Los Angeles, the other
was the power companies not
only OF California, but of all
the west, perhaps nationally,
for their organization is nation
wide, and very close at that.
But the logic of the situation
is all with the visitors from
other states, and against the
Los Angeles folks who were so
selfish and discourteous and
bull-headed and destructive as
to insist that in this conference,
California should have as many
effective votes as six other
states represented, because of
the accident that the session
was held in California. Natur-
ally, the visitors at first pro-
tested and then rebelled, and
the Angelenos went back to
the city with food for thought
as to whether the end justified
the means.
Their course from the out
set has been hoggish. They
may deny until doomsday that
the contract offered the re-
clamation service awarding so
per cent of the Boulder Canyon
power to Los Angeles, was
never meant as a contract as
Attorney w. B. Mathews did
deny after the contract had
been exploited by a Denver
speaker and publically repu-
dated by Secretary Fall. but
nobody has yet answered the
question as to why it was ever
drafted. It's purpose, on the
surface. was to monopolize
four-fifths of the power from
Boulder Canyon, 50 there
would be little or none left for
the rest of Southern California,
Arizona and Nevada, and Los
Angeles could continue to CEN