Nogales international., 1926-10-31
Sign on the Dotted Line

The legislature of California
appointed a committee and our
legislature adjourned and they
appointed committee after they
adjourned, whiih could not be
legal, and so l appointed a COM
mittee, and the Governor of
California said as. fellowgover-
nor, he would recognize my COM
rl;ttee, and so they had a con-
ference here, as Congressman
Hayden has explained, in the Sen
ate chambers in the Capitol, and
they got mad because I made a
little speech to them. They did
r't like it, and they said to our
committee, and that was the thing
that opened the eyes Of the peo-
RE of Arizona as nothing else
had-"sign on the dotted line, for
BOULDER Canyon Dam. and then
We WI treat with vou". Treat
With us! Sign our life away and
tney would treat with us! You
know l have the greatest regard
Tor the Californian. Many Cali
fornians are my friends, but we
SO over there, they never gave
rae anything. They seem to have
the happy faculty of putting
their hands in your pocket and
taking out your money and max
ing you believe they are doing
you favor. (Laughter). We
have been the back door of Cali
fornia long enough. Some time.
when we get our rights, they will
be the back door of Arizona.
(Applause). Yes, that is what
there will be. We will be the
great manufacturing state of the
union. We will be the state that
will be the playground of the
union. Of course, we haven't got
the Pacific Ocean, but we may
have the Colorado River in Ari-
zona, and we may get the conces-
sion to the Gulf of Mexico. (Ap-
plause).
All of these things we are
striving for and fighting for.
am not going to talk any longer
because l don't know whether
there is any other speaker to come
tonight. This is the first time
have been here in the general
campaign. / have been going
over the state for thirty days.
Sometimes I talked four times a
day, but the people seemed to like
it becuase they felt and I felt it
was my bounden duty to go forth
and preach the gospel of truth be-
couse. you may send the people
literature but they haven't got
tile time to study it, but if you
can get them in a room and tell
them the facts in reference to the
issues that confront them, they
are convinced, and it is easy to
convince Arizonians when they
feel you are fighting for their
rights as / have fought for them
for forty years. l would be false
TO you and false to myself if in
this great crisis that now con-
fronts us-the greatest crisis in
the history of Arizona didn't
do what l could to protect my
commonwealth from the greed and
and avarice without our state.
They are trying to take from
Arizona her birthright. I want to
he faithful to my people and pro-
tect them from the power trust
that is trying to strangle us. A
ing of steel is around as one OF
the sovereign states of us, but
they can't do it because this great
republic of ours we have certain
inalienable rights they can't take
away from us except by a vote
Of the people or the legislature
and the Governor of this state,
state, and as I said in the primary,
Il will see the Colorado River
frozen over and then fight them
on the ice-until we get what is
ours, until we get justice, and
that is what we are fighting for.
(Applause).