Imperial Valley press., 1925-10-30
SUBTLE INFLUENCES ARE SEEN

"Subtle influences are undoubtedly at work in
favor of low dam and in favor of the elimination or
the all-American canal feature of the Boulder dam
project says editorial in the Riverside Press COM
menting on the Los Angeles hearings OF the senate
committee This is made very evident, 1t continues
'from editorial and articles in the Los Angeles
Times. One of these articles makes stirring plea
for action and that leads the Santa Ana Register to
raise the pertinent question of responsibility for delay
The Register takes the view that the blame has to be
put very largely the Times and the interests 1t re-
presents The editorial follows and will be read with
marked interest in this county,:
- In front page, double column editorial,
under the heading, "At Last, Action!' the Los
Angeles Times hypocritcaly calls on the Unit
+, ed States senate committee that is on coast in
vestigating the Colorado river project to pay
heed to the selfish politicians who have been
endeavoring to put the project through for the
benefit of the people. To be sure, the Times
says nothing about the aim of the Selfish poll
ticians' being for the good of the people. Any
politician, farmer. business man, civic leader or
engineer who dares look upon the Colorado river
project something for the benefit of the peo-
pie of the United States rather than for the
benefit of Harry Chandler, owner of the Times.
and his associates, who own 100000 acres south
of the Mexican border, opens himself to the
Safeguarding policy of the Times.
The selfish politicians charged with
having been the cause of delay Anyone who
knows anything at all about the situation knows
that every interest with the exception of the
Los Angeles Times and of the power companies
has been fighting for action, and the action they
have been and still fighting for is for action
in exact accordance with the report of the gov
ernments engineers.
The delays have been the achievement of the
Harry Chandler crowd. They look upon delay
as their salvation They have thousands of
coolies at work reclaming land below the bord-
er. Whenever they put water of the Colo
RADIO upon another block of land, they acquire
right to the perpetual use of that water. If the
United States allows the Chandler interests to
block action long enough, the Chandler interests
will spread water the entire O,OOO acres.
When that is done the Times will no longer send
forth is campaigners in effofts to gain delay.
1t will then its diplomatic forces loose upon
the Mexican capital, demanding that in treaty
concerning the Colorado river all water put to
beneficial use be forever affixed to the Mexican
land. All precedents touching upon treaties of
this kind show that the United States would
recognize the right of this 100000 to the
Colorado river.
There is then but issue involved in this
question of delay. That question is: Shall there
be delay that the Chandler syndicate can put
the water to in Mexico, shall the project
be hastened through that this American
ter, flowing from American watersheds in
American river, can be put to waste lands
in the United States?"
"At Last Action" No indeed not if the
Times can prevent it.