Arizona state miner., 1924-10-18
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VIM Jennings Bryan will speak
five times during the next two weeks
in Arizona on behalf of the democ-
racy.
Governor Hunt may not be all that
some Arizonans desire but he is meet
ing with popular accord in his road
policies and the people are taking
their hats off to the old boy
J. J. Cox, senatorial candidate is
by all odds the logical man for such
a position. He is a lawyer of dis
tinction, a commoner and in his plat
form of new banking laws for Ari-
zona champions the cause of 1000
robbed depositors of this state.
To Iegislators-There ought to be
law forcing bankers to mail 60-day
reports of their finances to every de-
positor-instead of advertising them
In some far-away, obscure newspaper.
George Woodruff Ca republican ban
ker of Chicago) told the American
Bankers Association the other day
to reduce wages, but keep the tariff
at its present level.
The election of John w. Davis as
President is the only way to prevent
a deadlock and keep the election of
President out of Congress New
York Times.
Secretary Melons Aluminium COM
pany collected $15,589,614 3S on an
amortization claim last year is reveal
ed by the Federal Trade Commission.
This huge claim was allowed in June
of 1928, after Mellon became head of
the Treasury department. Mellon
was not so vigilant as watch dog
of the Treasury in his own interest
as he was in trying to get Coolidge
to veto the bonus to men of the war
camps and trenches.
Rich murderers, bootleggers and
bank robbers seldom pay the penalty
for their misdeeds. The poor devil
who makes his own booze or sells
1t gets the limit. But in legal par
lance that is Even Handed Justice.
Wherever the Prince of Wales went
on his recent U. S. trip the visiting
potentate was supplied and replen-
ished again and again with booze and
beverages for the wild and weird GER
emonies and dances given in his
honor. There is law for the poor
but none for the rich.
Registration has closed and the
next quandry is how much are you
going to get for your vote?
A leading newspaper of New York
City that has long been in favor of
public ownership Of private industry
is using the proposals for state power
development in California and Wash
lngton as an argument to show that
New York state is backward in not
advocating and demanding similar
public ownership schemes.
Attorney A. H. Favour of Prescott
recently poured hot shot into the Col
orado Compact by exposing how the
pact provides that the states of the
Lower Basin (Which includes Califor-
MAJ shall receive 8,5O0.OOO acre feet
of water with no specific provision of
the waters of the Salt River valley,
yet they are included in the Compact.
The Gila and Salt River waters should
have been left out as they are exclus-
i've Arizona streams and belong to
Arizona already.
That old republican "bogie" about
80 miles of impossible tunnels" ne
cessary for the highline canal is thor
oughly exploded by Goth century en-
gineering, which transmits power de-
veloped at the dam 700 miles in any
direction to lift water from gravity
reservoirs over ridges and elevations
to gravity courses along the line BY
wire transmission of power it is pos
sible to reclaim and put under pro-
duction many million acres above the
1000 foot contour in lifting waters of
Bill Williams river, Date Creek. Has
sayampa and other streams out of
their banks onto tributary arid lands
along their courses-adding billions to