The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-04-12
Mayor j. w. Andrews Out
lines Municipal Policy.
BOOSTS ELECTRIC RAILWAY
New Executive Tells the Aldermen
What Should Be Done to Push
MankatO to Front.


augrral address to the new council, las
night. 1t reads as follows:
Mankato, Mimi, April 9th, l907.-Tc
the Honorable Council, of the City o.
Mankato. Gentlemen, ] congratulate
you on being the choice of majority
of voters of your respective wards fol-
alderman Under the present system
of free ballot it is Il great honor tt
be chosen TO represent ones constitn
ency in state, in national or municipal
government. This, however, can only
be crowned with glory by the very
faithful performance of duty. "Honol
is a sacred tie. Honor and shame
from no condition rise; act well youl
part, there all the honor lies. Our OWL
hearts and not other mans opinion
forms our true honor" You must al
ways remember that You are not rep
resenting your individual self, nor in
deed any individual class, or clique OF
individuals, or party, but your whole
ward-nay, more, you! represent TO
degree the entire city of Mankato, and
gentlemen, | beg of You that in your
official capacity you know no lower
metropolis of Southern Minnesota. 1t
is the fourth city in the great state
of Minnesota i'm commercial Importance.
! would recommend, therefore, that
this incoming council strive for high
degree of excellence in those things,
and enacting such ordinances as will
conduce to the healthful growth and
development of our beautiful city.
/ recommend that you cooperate
with the Commercial club, in develop
ing the city's resources, in securing
much needed industries, and especial
ly in fostering any legitimate industry
that now exists in the city. In these
things i warn you to look well to the
future The members of the CONNER
acial club while as much interested in
The welfare of the city as you are and
as capable of acting, have no official
responsibility. You are the gentlemen
that will cast the vote, to give or
withhold franchise; to make or re-
fuse to make some called for improve
ments, and it is you and not they
who will have to give an account to
the citizens of Mankato for all of
your official acts. You are the GUS
todian of the city's interests. Before
you were elected to your present re-
sponsible position you pledged your
selves, as did also the head of the
ticket, to an economical and brsiness-
like administration. Gentlemen, today
let us renew that pledge, and hold it
most sacred. l recommend that you
give every encouragement possible to
the improvement of the highways
of the city. Second street as well as
paved, but please remember that you
are the servants and not the masters
of the property owners on these streets.
Personally, should feet that my own
property would be sufficiently enhanced
in value by such public Improvement
as would Justify, me in asking for it.
No Longer Village
Mankato is no longer a village. She
has long since dotted her swadline
clothes, discarded her short dresses, and
has entered upon adult life. AS citi-
zens, we can no longer wait for the
bugle call, for that has already sound,
ed, and we are on the march of prog
ress, and if we sulk or desert, we dc
it at our peril. Nature knows no pause
in progress, and attaches her curse
to all inaction Oliver Wendall Holmes
once said, Il feel that the great thing
in this world is not so much where
we stand as in what direction we are
moving" Therefore, gentlemen, | urg,
You to move, but before you move b,
sure you move in the best interests o.
the city. Our neighbors say we have
a beautiful city, and they have sale
well. Nature has done much to beauti
fly Mankato. Our beautiful hills cover
ed with a mantle of green during
spring and summer, and with variety
OF tinted colors in autumn; the wind
ing streams, and here and there tn,
stately elms that have withstood tn,
blasts of many winters unite to con
tribute to Mankato's exceedingly pic
turesque location. Homer has said tina
Beauty is a glorious gift of nature
and Ovid once said, 1T is gift of TIN,
gods" Nature has given Mankato SOM
beautiful parks, and | recommend tina
You give these your thoughtful consid
Grafton. 1t is not the large and ex
pensive fountains. it is not pave,
walks and roadways that make parl
beautiful, but shady hooks and natur'
own embellishments trained and cul
tivated by the hand of man. Witt
small expense, flower beds can b.
cultivated, walks with graceful curve
constructed, lawns cleaned \and wei
mown, trees trained and fawerin.
shrubs set here and there to give va
riety. These lend enchantment ana ar
always pleasing to the eye / shall
name one for park superintendent VIII
with your help and mine will do thi
well.
Central Park Purchase.
Much has been said about the newl,