The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-09-14

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The prospects for statehood appear
to be very remote.-Silver City hide
pe1dent.
If you are in doubt, vote against it,
If you are sure you know what o
are about, vote as you please.
Office co7fers no ono upon a man
who is worthy of it, n it will dis
grace every man who is not.-Hoi
land.
There is a class among us so con
sentative that they are afraid the
roof will come down if you sweep off
the cobwebs.
The difference between a mans
handshake and the wag of a dogs
tail is that the wag is always sin
cere.-Bryan's Commoner.
We believe the law is that nobody
except the taxpayers can vote on a
bond proposition-and even a prop
erty owner cannot vote if he happens
to be a woman.
You pays you money and takes
your choice" 1t is up to the taxpay-
ers to say whether or not they want
fire protection and to preserve the
health of their families.
Probably the worst mistake that
has been made in the matter of water
works in Roswell was in voting down
the proposition submitted under the
last city administration.
The Records suggestion that a wo-
man be igven one place on the Ly-
eum Bureau program was not &C
e~ssarily confined to members of the
Woman's Club. One of the city
teachers, Mrs. Beck, for instance,
would be satisfactory.
Culture indefatigably tries, not to
make what each raw person may
like, the rule by which he fashions
himself; but to draw ever nearer to
a sense of what is indeed beautiful,
graceful, and becoming, and to get
the raw person to like that.-Mat
thew Arnold.
Texas has driven the harvester
trust out of the state. 1t is just such
"hardships" thai national incorpora-
tion" is intended to prevent, and that
ration will not be popular with the
people when it is understood.-Bry-
ans Commoner.
The interview of Fire Chief White
man in yesterdays Record probably
helped the waterworks proposition
more han anything that has been
said upon the subject. Mr.. Whiteman's
plain statement of the lack of fire
protection will start many property
owners to thinking seriously.
h Artesia News started this week
on its second year; and in all fair
less we must say that aside from its
.rabid Republicanism it is a live news
paper-a little too quarrelsome, per-
haps-well printed, and always de-
voting the greater part of its space
to boosting for the Pecos Valley, and
especially for "Artesia county"
Has anybody investigated the wa
terworks plant recently put in at Ar
tesla under the supervision of Engi-
neer Ellis? The plant cost Sac, 1000.
You can obtain information from al
most any prominent citizen as to how
people there are satisfied. Call up one
of your Artesia friends by telephone
and ask him if there vas any graft"
in the job.
A telegraph operator mas at last
been secured to take charge tempo
rarily in Roswell. She will not make
any effort, however, TO handle the
Records Associated Press report.
Commercial business alone is all that
an operator can handle in Roswell
without an assistant. The Record has
wired in a vigorous protest against
being thus deprived of its press dis
patches. and intends to keep right on
kicking until something happens
~
j.. +. Hilkle, president of the Ter
ritorial Equalization Board. who has
just returned from Santa Fe, says