Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-23
CAMERON DECLARES HE
WILL KEEP PROMISES
in PRESCOTT SPEECH


"I am an optimist, rot a pessimist,
and the word can't is not in my vo-
cabulary," United States Senator Ralph
II. Cameron told an audience at the
Odd Fellows hall in Prescott Friday
night. His address was frequently in
terrupted by bursts of applause from
the crowd which filled the building.
MY opponents claim they are pro-
ducing facts to prove that I cannot
fulfill my promises" Senator Cam
eron said. '"Ehese are some of the
same facts they produced in 1920 to
prove I could not keep my promise TO
get a San Carlos dam appropriation
1 got the San Carlos dam bill through
congress, and 1 am going to get every
thing else I promise. They said
couldn't get statehood--but l got it.
Now they. say Cameron can't get a
tariff on copper, he can't do this, and
he can't do that; but you watch and
SEQ if don't do everything that
say I will. / always have fulfilled
my promises, and I am not going to
start breaking them now"
He told his audience that when lie
was returned to the senate he would
secure a protective duty on copper,
long staple cotton and hides. This,
he claimed, would protect the copper
miner, the cattleman and the farmer.
Senator Cameron then launched into
a vigorous explanation of his pro-
posed copper tariff, which, he claimed
in no uncertain terms, is the only
remedy to save the COPPER industry
OF this state.
He pointed out that the 25-cent Con-
go labor and the 95-cent Andes labor
is too much for the American miners
wage scale, and that unless some bar
rier of protection is granted this
basic industry, which is the only min
ing industry unprotected in this coun-
try, it will be annihilated.
Then he called to the attention CT
his audience that such a calamity
must never happier, for it, he declared,
would saddle 100 per cent more tax
burden upon the backs of the agri-
cultural sections of this state. In
his usual dramatic way, he called at
tention to the fact that in the last
five years there has been more than
5000, 900 in the assessment Of the
nlining industries which has been
shifted to the agricultural and farm
ing sections of Arizona.
IT have, through my own initiative,
hard work and energy, secured more
than S10,OO0,O00 for Arizona in direct
appropriations from the federal gov
ernment during the five years I have
served as United States Senator from
this state" Cameron said. "Send me
back and 1 will guarantee that, with
my power, position and experience, 1
can do three times as much for the
welfare of the state we all love-"
He described his 40 years associa.
tion with the problems of the Colo
RADIO river. being one of the early pio-
neers in the Grand canyon. He pre-
sented the problem as he outlined IT
in the campaign of 1911 for the Unit
ed States senate, for it's comprehen-
sive development, and then asked
Where arc those who belittled me
in 1911? What have they been doing
for the Colorado river until it was
brought back as a live issue after
my election in 1920?"
Senator Cameron advocated the
building of a storage dam at Glen
canyon and a diversion dam at Bridge.
These two dams, he said, would give
Arizona her just rights in the Colo
rado river.