Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-09
L. Douglas Firm in
Colo. River Matter
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to the big Kiwanis convention from
Arizona and added that he and DR.
T.. w. Adamson had brought all the
sunshine into Montreal which was
there while the convention was on.
He concluded his address with an
appeal for Douglasites to get together
and boost this city and declared
that as far as he was concerned, he
was for Aimee and her shack which
he wanted to be found, and even
made, if necessary, he said, to prove
her story.
Douglas devoted the first portion of
his address to the same general dis
cussion of the Colorado river prob
lem which he offered here last week
before the "Douglas-for-C Congress
club" of this city.
Carefully, logically and sanely he
discussed what he sees as the de-
pletion of the mines in this state
which will in turn necessitate, he
believes, creation of other forms of
taxable wealth. The Colorado river
he offered as the one available
source for supplying this wealth and
although giving due cognizance to
the land which may be reclaimed
through the development of that river,
the speaker asserted that only
through the taxing of the power
coming from the river will Arizona
gain back the taxable wealth it is
sure to lose from the depletion of
it's mines.
Douglas then took a slap at the
Hi-Line canal proposition, which, he
said contemplated tunnel 80 miles
long and which, if completed, under
the estimated cost of it's sponsors
would entire the expenditure of five
hundred million dollars He termed
the entire scheme impracticable and
visionary.
Thus the taxing of the power from
the river will be the only way out
to get taxable wealth, the speaker
continued and went on to tell how
from tive to seven million potential
horsepower would be available from
proper development of the river and
that more than four million po-
tential horsepower could be pro-
Most of the power, however, will
be consumed in California, Doug
las assured his hearers, making it
vital for Arizona to have the right
toy tax the power Power, however,
in connection with the river, should
be develope dbys private capital
douglas maintained, and he finally
went into the discussion of the
river being developed from the head
of the canyon down rather than from
the mouth up.
This sort of development would
assure an increase in primary horse
power according to Douglas, make
future construction cheaper and also
assure flood storage for safety, he
claimed,
In concluding this portion of his
address, Douglas reminded his hear-'
erst that Arfzonas greatest allegiance
IS to the United States and that this
state has thus no right to hold that
the river belongs entirely to it or
that the agreement Arizona favors
must be entered into just as she
wants, by all the other states. Fin
d1ly, ATIzOId mus cOncEND 2nG must
enter into an agreement with neigh
boring states or the Swing-Johnson
bill will pass, leaving Arizona our
of luck, he tsated
Tracing the growth of the bloc
system of national legislation, Doug
las laid it to the discomfort of the
farmers and then declared that it
spells death for the present system
of government and the two-party
system. Due consideration must be
given to the farmers problems, he
continued, for the agriculturist is
not protected as the industrial groups
are and does not produce on a
quantitive basis as the other economic
groups do He then mentioned sew.
eral of the measures offered for
aiding the farmer, calling generally
for government subsidy but did
not finally recommend any of them,
simply saying frankly that some
thing must be done along intelligent