The Winslow mail., 1924-10-31

deal with the Colorado river as it
affects the state, in order that the
state may get the most out of it.
Upon your ballot at this next
election you will find Initiative Meas
ure Number sos, which l am glad to
say was recently indorsed unanimous
i ly by the organization representing
the engineers of Arizona. / trust that
that measure will become law. 1t
is for an engineering investigation to
determine the possibility, in so far as
Arizona is concerned, of obtaining
water from the Colorado river.
If the measure should fall, l hope
that the legislature will make ample
appropriation. l hope the measure
will not fail, that it will become
| law, because it will enable the peo-
pie of this state to get the informa-
ton to which they are entitled and
it has been my desire at all times to
do everything l could that would aid
the people of Arizona in acquiring in
| formation in regard to the Colorado
river
| boosted that they would send large
delegation to Washington in Deem
Der upon the convening of congress,
and would succeed in passing the
Swing johnson bill which would rob
Arizona of it's rights. They will ac-
complish no more this winter than
they did previously, and that was
nothing.
1T may interest you to have me
discuss very briefly the attitude of
the great national democratic party
with respect to hydroelectric develop
ment
IF you will examine the platform
of the republican party, you won't
find one word in it that pledges any
kind of government construction on
any stream, any where. 1t is true
| that there was submitted to the last
republican national convention in
Cleveland according to press reports,
Mr.. j. c. Adams of this city, present
ed to the republicans in convention
a proposition for flood control and
government construction on the Colo
RADIO river. The platform is silent on
that subject. They refuse to make
that declaration. Il
President Coolidge, in his speech
of acceptance as | heard it, over the
radio, said he was opposed to gov
eminent ownership, and you may look
for that policy to be carried out UNI
der the republican administration.
1t is my solemn judgement that a
vote for Mr.. Coolidge is a vote for
private power development on the
Colorado river.
NOW, the platform adopted by Mr.
La Toilette on which he is running,
goes to the other extreme. 1t is very
short l will read it: We favor pub
lie ownership of the nations water
power and the creation of national
super-water system.
"Mr. La Toilette is, and always has
been, strict conservationist. He has
acted, with other conservationists, on
the theory that everything that is in
the west belongs to the government
belongs to all of the people, and when
we talk about Arizona's resources,
they say that that belongs just as
much to the people of Wisconsin, or
the people of Indiana or the people
of Illinois, as it does to the people of
Arizona, and with that idea in mind,
they favor government development
ment of a national per-water-power
system which would utterly ignore
any interest Arizona may have in the
Colorado river.
THE democratic platform is be-
tween these two extremes. 1t is
pledged to the construction of food
control work on the Colorado river,
and the construction of such irriga
ting enterprises as are feasible and
practical and our candidate for the
presidency has stated that he stands
on that platform, and will have gov
eminent development on the Colorado
river but he is opposed to the fed
eral government going into the retail
business, and he is absolutely right
about it. The federal government
should do no more on the Colorado
river than it has done on the Salt
river. When it is going concern, it
should get out of the water business
and out of the power business, and
should turn it over to the farmers and
the irrigators and the consumers of
power tributary to it. That is what
the government ought to do on the
Colorado river just as it has done
here.
Il am glad to say that we have
candidate for the presidency on the
democratic ticket who understands
our situation here in the west. He
S a great lawyer, a man of construc-
i've ability who will be with us in
his great development
Il know him. | served with him
or two terms-parts of two terms
n the congress of the United States.
lie was a member of the House when
was first elected. We were re-
elected together, and he served until