The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-09-11
BEFORE AND AFIER

be. to the upbuilding-lanaAdeseIop-
ment of great State.
What we say here today viii. not be
long remembered, but what you have
done in New Mexico in twenty years
can never be forgotten. If it were in
my power; if 1 had the Divine touch.
the pioneer of this country should
live fifty years longer than is now al
lotted to the other men of his day,
that he might see that much more
of the results of his 1abors. 1 would
do more. Out of thai number who
blazed the way to and into the Pecos
Valley, there are two men, one of
whom has long since been gathered
to his fathers, and the other but re-
Gently. l would place their statutes,
life-sized and erect in the public plac-
es of the city of Roswell, that all
men might e the stamp and calibre
of the true pioneer of that day. One
the pioneer cat~tle-raiser, Jno. G.. Chi
sum, Int the other, the pioneer town
builder of the Pecos Valley, Joseph
c. Lea. These men did as much for
this later day. to point the way, to
make it possible for others to build,
to per the way of better living, of
better conditions, of better surround
ings, as did John Hay toward the
open Door policy of the Orient.
But with what has been done by o
and by those who have had the privi-
lege of following you must We stop2
Are we to be satisfied, and are you to
put forth any additional effort? VIII
the coming of. these things mention
ed as the Later day" improvements
n developments, be sufficient upon
which to rest YOU laurels, and can
yon a it is well done?" Will the
pioneer and path-fnders of the Pc
cos Valley and those who survive
throughout New Mexico, dare to look
into the future and refuse further to
aid the effort to develop her natural
and upbuild the industries,
beautify h valleys and add comfort
to the human race? Not so, I ven
ture, and l am sure it is the heart
and hope of every one of you. You
who have been worthy co-laborers in
winning the West with Fremont, Pike
Mathewson, Mccoy, Chisum, Lea and
others will not hesitate or delay FUR
her efforts for the future. Taking
the past as the earnest and pledge eff
fort in the years to some, we have
only started. In the locality of the
efforts of many of you will be built
n you will be the builders-the com
mercial center of the Southeastern.
portion of the Great Common Wealth,
soon to be known in your homes as
Alameda, and which great State will
be heralded abroad to the millions
as the Sunshine Commonwealth"
And besides this. there will rise in
this great Empire of the Peco other
cities, other communities, which will
number men and women within the
lives of many of you, will be number
ed with you as "old timers" and who
will aid in building other cities and
follow, naturally, in the course of this
progress and development all Of
those elements of comfort and useful
ness: railroads, factories, public high
ways of the best character; the tele-
phone and the telegraph will be null
tiplied. and you and you children TO
be the benefactors of this new life
and these "later days"
And so let US here today at this re-
union or gathering Of your society
pledge anew our efforts, and give
the past as a guarantee for the flu
ture. And, as it has been, it will be,
the honor and the gratitude of a
great civilization, and those who par
ticipate in it to the old settler in the
Pecos Valley aid in New Mexico.
As you go from these scenes today
| you will doubtless recall and recount