The wets make one mistake above all.

They do not realize that the drys can still keep on voting dry, with intense conviction, and great battle cries, and still have a sense of humor.
Chapter XVI--California and America.

This chapter was quoted and paraphrased almost bodily as the preface to my volume of verses, The Golden Whales of California.

"I Know All This When Gipsy Fiddles Cry," a song of some length recently published in the New Republic and the London Nation, further expresses the sentiment of this chapter in what I hope is a fraternal way, and I hope suggests the day when California will have power over India, Asia, and all the world, and plant giant redwood trees of the spirit the world around.
Chapter XVII--Progress and Endowment.

I allow this discourse, also, to stand as written in 1914 and '15.