Nogales International

DOUGLAS URGES
GENERAL DRAFT

Bisbee, Ariz., Aug. 21. - The greatest asset the state of Arizona now has is the Colorado river, said Lewis W. Douglas, candidate for congress, in a speech here this week. Douglas declared that the Swing-Johnson bill, with the resultant construction of the Boulder canyon dam and the passing forever of Arizona's possibilities on the river would likely be passed at the next session of congress and that it was necessary for Arizona to bring Nevada and California into conference in order to preserve her rights.

Douglas told of the passing of the mines as Arizona's great asset and of the immediate necessity of developing other resources to care for the tax burden. The greatest resource is the development of the Colorado, with many resources which would flow with that development. He pledged himself to the protection of Arizona's rights as to taxation of the power and as to allocation of water.

Born in Bisbee, Douglas came before his home people to tell of the things he wanted to accomplish in congress, and his home people welcomed him with the largest crowd ever assembled in Bisbee at a political gathering.

He said that he believed every question of national importance before congress revolved about the concentration of production, transportation and distribution in the hands of a few, thus destroying the opportunity that has made America a land where initiative and industry would reward a young man and permit the development of the country along competitive lines. America is being ruled by commissions rather than as a democratic republic, said the speaker, and a halt must be called to this movement.

Douglas made plain his stand on the principal of the universal draft, saying that he believed in the drafting of capital, labor and resources as well as man power during war time.