The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-07-18

With that running as of yore, no mat
ter how faithfully ne may be doing
his duty, before he knows that any
thing is going wrong, his authority
and his reputation will be undermine
ed, and his head may be in the saw
dust. History always has a tendency
to repeat itself
To put it all in a nutshell, good or
bad government will depend in the
future, as it has in the past, very
largely on the President of the United
States. Not wholly, but to such an
extent that it is impossible without
his hearty, continuous and wise sup
port of, and confidence in the Cover
nor, so long as he is DOING RIGHT
In doing his duty, the true interests
of the people will inevitably be the
first consideration, and the machine
will be left to take care of itself.
1 wonder how many people really
understand what a handicap the gang
of freebooters, who now seem to be
On top, are to New Mexico from
purely business point of view
Since 1889 l have furnished or rails
ed the money to build the 3S9 miles
| of railroad between Pecos and ANA
Valley. Also to build the largest pri-
vate irrigation works in the United
States, and for many other useful
things, all absolutely necessary to
| the development of this Valley, cost
| ing as much as $12,000,000 in all. 1t
was raised step at a time, covering,
all told, a period of ten years, ending
| in 1899. The difficulties of it and the
obstacles to be overcome can never
! be told, and it never could have been
done at all if l had not been able
and willing to take the lead in every
new scheme to raise money, by put
ting in my own money. Positively the
greatest obstacle encountered in rails
ing the money was the terrible repu-
tation of our Territorial government,
and the reluctance of capitalists to
risk their money under our tumble
of bad laws, and bad territorial leg
islatures. Many a time l have been
turned down for no otner reason. l
had induced some New York capital
lists to subscribe s1,O00,000 to the
plan to raise money to extend the
railroad from Roswell 20 Amarillo,
but one of the firm happened to run
across a friend who owned some de-
faulted bonds of a New Mexico coun-
ty, and he told such true story of
I1.,l ,-,,1o haI lou
and bad legislatures that they all
backed out, and refused to subscribe
dollar When one set of prominent
| financiers in New York turn down al
enterprise, it gets whispered around
and makes it much harder to do any
thing with others. The incident re-
| ferred to cost me six months of hard
work, and a loss of probably 100000,
because 1 had to give much better
terms to get the $2,500,OO0 1 was af-
ter.
Our numerous efforts to secure
statehood have all been rejected, Tor
several reasons, some good and some
bad, but there was always one reason
which did US infinite narm, viz, our
bad territorial government,-tha is,
dirty gang rule. This incubus to our
| financial, moral, educational and po-
litical progress will continue to curse
US until it is smashed.
In my opinion it is going to be
smashed before long. In spite of the
ill-considered and cruel things the
President has done in this New Mexi
CO affair, 1 cannot help hoping that
he will learn the truth, and use his
vast power to help us to secure good
government. If he will be guided
by truth when he learns it, and con-
sequently do US justice, that is all the
people of New Mexico ask or expect
from him.
| The people of the Pecos Valley have
! a very large financial interest in this
question. Seventeen years ago the ter
ritory which is now Cnaves county
1000 people widely scattered. 1t con-
tributed very little money to the Ter
ritorial treasury. 1t is now the first
county in New Mexico financially, and
lin the year ending June first, 1906.
ipaid into the Territorial treasury
$46,746.15. being more than any other
county paid. Every man who does bu-
siness. who pays taxes. who digs the
soil in the hot su1. helps to support
a lot of men who now control our
government. but whose only interest
lin the people is to hoodwInk them.
and get the last dollar possible out