The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-02-15
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hise is valued at 81, o0O,o 900.

chise is valued at 81, 000, 200.
Telephone tolls in Canada are quite
high, ranging from $50 to 500 a
year for business houses, and from
$50 to $50 for residences. Under mu-
|nicipal ownership residents of these
two cities pay $12 a ear for resi-
dence and $24 a yea for commercial
service. In four years the two sys-
TENS have earned about 5 9 1000 net.
The FIT. William municipal theatre
and dance hall are both in the city
hall. The latter interested me partic-
ularly. w thought it would be bet,
ter my merchant guide explained.
ito have a good moral place for our
lsons and daughters than to have
them running around to indiscriminate
Dances"
The theatre strikingly illustrates
the possibilities of municipal owner
| ship. It is rented at a figure which
pays the city six per cent upon the
Investment. The management is en-
abled thereby to make better terms
with visiting show companies than
most in the northwest. The
people get better and cheaper shows.
Every performance is censored, and
decency is not sacrificed to business
exigencies.
Just now Fit. William is ~expending
$3.50, 900 in developing a new gravity
tsystem of water supply which in less
than a year will furnish water from
Loeb Lomond, on Mckay mountain.
and give the city m of the cheapest
and best water systems in America.
A municipal swimming pool is in
contemplation. Both cities will n
tribute to it's cost. The Lake Superior
water is always too cold for bathing
purposes, but a river pours down into
the bay between h cities. Al arti-
fetal lake is to be built for the young,
sters near its mouth.
Now for the dollars and cents.
From the net earnings of its public
utilities in the last o u a Port
Arthur has had approximately one
hundred thousand dollars. This has
pTOuuC0u d SuUSCdl1I1d1 lSduSl1oh Az
the tax rate.
Better than all this, though, munic-
ipaI ownership has killed partisan
municipal politics, and doing so has
wiped out municipal dishonesty and
graft. Party lines have been obIiter-
ated. Any taxpayer may run for of
flee. All that is required In the way
OF nomination is that he appear on
a certain date to his candi-
dacy Supported by one other voter.
Municipal ownership has brought
dignity and honor to office holding.
1t has made the public Office a public
trust in truth. Election is a demon
stration of the public confidence in
ones honor and integrity.
No salaries are paid mayors Or al
dermen. The honor of election is con
sidered sufficient emolument. Alder
are elected at large; there is
ward politics, no district domino
ton. Last election there were more
thirty candidates for alderman
each city ticket, with eight to
elect.
Dishonesty in legislation n a
has disappeared. Early
in the history of municipal owner |
ship there were some instances OF
both. The results were such that no
one has dared offend since. To serve
wrongly means to erect a monument
that will stand in the public mind for
4 generation. |
Much of the spirit of moral uplift
newspapers of both cities, also mu-
,icipally owned. They are ardent ex-
,onents of integrity and honest ambi-
ion to the rising generation