Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-09-10
GREECE FACES STATE OF NEAR ANARCHY
Arizona $ Greatest Asset Is Her Copper
Mines, When Producing, and These Mines
Must Have Tariff Protection = Cameron
Especial to the Disparoh.) )

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est asset is her producing copper
mines and these mines must have The
protection of a tariff on copper it
| they are to continueI in operation,
Senator Ralph H. Cameron told Il
large and enthusiastic audience in the
city park in Bisbee tonight.
| Painting picture of the cheap "g-
string" labor of the copper industries
! in South America and Africa, Cameron
| told his hearers that the copper pro,
ducers of the United States cannot
continue to operate for many more
] years under present conditions and
cannot now afford to pay wages COM
mensurate with tn eWork which the
laborers of the industry are per-
| forming.
| He said that from Is to "a cents
per pound is the price domestic pros
| ducers must receive in order to pay
the wages to wis.,. miners and smell
termen are entitled and to compete
successfully with the foreign produc-
/ tion, and vividly compared the "g,
string" laborers of the Congo with
! citizen miners of the United States.
The urgent pecessity for protec>
! tive tariff on copper was emphasized
most forcbly by the senator and he
! promised his hearers that he would
obtain such tariff at the next SEES
sion of congress.
| Cameron told of his fight for Ari
zona's rights in connection with the
Colorado river and promised that Cali
fornia would never obtain one drop
| of water or one kilowatt of poweN
/ from the Colorado so long as heN is
! in the senate unless an agreement
| satisfactory to Arizonas interests is
! first effected.
! Touching upon the recent attack
| of the Los Angeles Times on his
character and his stand on the Colo
RADIO, Cameron said, ''While they tried
| to prove L was a thief, I was never
| shrewd enough to steal anything in
my life to be compared with CaH
fornia's present plans of acquisition.
! He stated that his power in Off
cial circles in Washington was such
/ that the two senators from California
and the secretary. of commerce OF
| the United States could not put over
steal on Arizona while ne was Ill
! the senate.
| The senator told of his plans to
form a power district in the Sulphui
Springs valley and have the govern
| ment provide the money with which
to build a huge power plant to pro-
vide CHEAP powtr for pumping.
"There is a very large area in the
SULPHUR Springs valley which could
be put under cultivation if cheap
enough power for pumping purposes
could be had" the senator sa1d' ana
while the federal government mas
millions of dollars for the eastern
states million or two for Arizona
will never be missed
| Cameron also told of his plans tof
obtaining money with which to buiid
the Charleston dam, giving the farm"
ers 40 years in which to repay the
government.
He attacked Carl Hayden's stand
on the Colorado river compact, say
ing that it was written by a Call
fornin. Secretary Herbert c. Hoover
and that naturally Arizona could gam
nothing by it's adoption.
"The waters of the Colorado belong
! to Arizona the senator said' "desplte
any legal claims California mlght
! build up, and Arizona's only chance
| for protection is to have legislator
! in washington thinking of what Arl-
zona wants and needs, and not whal
legal rights might be estapllsneu,
The senator told of his early visit
tn Bisbee when the Cochlse county
vote made him a delegate TO con-
erass and Of the early day incidents
| occurring here.
/ cameron was introduced by HoN
smith. who reviewed the history
of the copper industry for the past
90 Years and told of the fight now
heinp waged by Cameron to OBTAIN
the scent tariff on copper
Smith said:
! The epochal achievements OF RalpH
Cameron during the past two oecaue9
while delegate in congress ana later ds
i United States senator proves to the
miners of the copper districts OF All
zona that il any Arizonan can secure
! for them a livable wage and a cessa-
\ tion from the economic misery beset-
/ ting them now and during the last five
! wears. Senator Cameron is the man that
can do these things for them.
/ Tariff the Only Means
i Senator Cameron is an ardent pro-
tectionist, and is unwavering in ms
! belief that the American standard OF
4 living for our citizens that labor, and
efficient maintenance of our domestic
industries can be secured only through
the medium of a protective tariff.
He is a member of the national party
4 which adheres to and unwaveringly
advocates rigid protection for our cltl-
. zens who labor, and for our domestic
industries.
This national party is in politica
control of the senate and of the mouse
of representatives; and the president is
a republican.
Cameron Power
Ralph Cameron occupies now mos'
, strategic political position, offensive
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