Mexico weekly ledger., 1884-04-17
OUTS AND ms.
Change Of City Government.
NEW COUNClL SWORN lN-OFFICERS
APPOINTED - EVERYTHING
STARTS OFF WITH 4
BRIGHT PROSPECT.
onward" is the Watehword...Cas.
uaities.

hiSut Tue Olu cOuDcu
retired and the new one was sworn
In. A large crowd was in the lobby
70 near any speeches which might be
made. The retiring Mayor, j. B.
Botkin, ina few words gracefully
thanked the council for their untiring
energy in assisting him in administer
ing the sffairsof the city during his
term, and after Introducing Mayor
elect Fowler, retired. The new Off
GERS and new council then took the
oath of office.
K. Galloway was.then elected pres
itent of the council. Geo. Laforce
superintendent of the new cemetery.
Mayor Fowler then delivered the
following appropriate address, which
was we'll received:
To the Honorable City Council OF
the City of Meaico.
GENTLEMEN :-It is customary for
the Mayor, at his Inauguration, to
deliver a short address to the council.
l presume in accordance to that Gus
tom L must say something. This is
not the first time l have been honored
with this important duty. and / can
say that l always endeavored to do
my duty to the best of my ability
and will say that l still feel that in
terest in the welfare of this city, not
to shirk during my present term OF
office. AS Mayor of your city l feel
that 1 am your servant, not your mas
ter, and as such servant it is my duty
to keep q watchfui eye over the city,
reporting as far as practicable, all vi
Citations of the ordinances, and as.
sisting in Furnishing violators of the
same. AS councilmen, and other
officers of the city at large, / ask you
to and have that confidence in every
one of you, that you will stand by
me, and never be negligent in doing
your duty under any and all circum'
stances as each one of as have pledg-
ed ourselves when taking the oath OF
office. Gentlemen, l am and always
have been a respector of the laws OF
the land in which l live, and you are
we'll aware that no law, unless re-
spected and obeyed, is of any use Of
benefit to any one in any condition O.
under any circumstances. / am il
favor therefore, of a strict enforce
ment of the ordinances of our city
regardless of friend or foe, race, sex
color Or previous condition of servI
tude, and I call upon you gentlemen
of the council and every law-abidin!
citizen within the corporate limits, II
assist in bringing to justice every
~violator of law and order and having
said laws duly enforced. Our it'll
city has a reputation abroad as wei
at home that we should feel prout
of. and as officers and citizens W,
! Etould strive to increase and not di
finish. In some respects we are be
hid q few of our sister cities, but
n hde the time has arrived when cit
zersas well as officers, should be u
anofoing, by putting their shoulde
We to u wheels of progress, and by on
earnf, united effort move on to VIC
- tory presume that all arrange
mentsave been consummated in re
gard tqhe manufacture of gas an
ire lghtlnSf the city. I think that
good mGe, but there is one thing
eensldersh That is more needed an
%, more essetial to the welfare of th
city than 4 other enterprises at tn
,os time, and set is q complete, system
ATTIC water Srks, without which n
city from thsmallest to the large
a can do withst and prosper. It
ne. needed BY eyybody, and drives Il
machinery thauoves the whole wor
an at this imperial period. I have
ce. method or planto lay before you
honorable body,s T am neither
civil engineer orsamiliar with su,
matters, but l wod most earnest
recommend the mser for your co
md sideration. In casof fire we ha,
u;u nothing to extinguiS the flames, ar
= are therefore left to se mercy of tt
enemy. We need wer for all m
TIL chanical purposes, answithout it ,
ity, need not expect any mnufactories
any enterprises of any haracter tn
will prove successful, ither to I
BET city or to the individu4 There
ing no good reason, gentlema, why e
cry wagon, reaper, mser, plo,
rake, hoe, and all other uplemen
red used in this country, shod not
tor- manufactured here in Mexp as W,
as elsewhere. II we had ssh indr
.: tries here We might to-day i've blu
dreds, even thousands of mshani
lies filling the air with the music { tn,
saws, hammers and files and fyi
,,,a our boys employment that wod
much better than prowling arous t
a streets in idleness. This woulda
q better home market for everys
and the farmer has to sell, besides sa
ho thousands of dollars paid out al
ally for freight on the above mac
cry. Our city is favorably loo
to- for a manufacturing city, and l
oate satisfied by proper exertion such
may be attained and prosperity CT
u every effort, and without it we j
the suffer loss. I consider that any
says couragement we can extend to
.asn ufactorles of any kind will be as
ing bread upon the waters that in
course of time is sure to return.
gel facilities for business in our cit
HI. large, and considering the large l
For Der of smaller towns that are CO..
TT tally springins up in our mids
dividing our business to a create
from tent than many imagine, and Is
old my opinion, a warning voice, te
,ntv. US that we must be up and d,
Some persons are of the opinion
the small towns don't interfere
saw the business of the larger, bl
eek, made acquainted with the volum
,fon. business transacted in any one o.
villages around US, it would asst
them. There are other matters,
Din tlemen, that I consider of vastin
yeet- lance to the welfare of our city
, in 1 would like to speak of, but
forbids me doing so at present.
Some Of us are new hands in
rad old machine Of the city governr