Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-30

right of way, and to that end part of tn, Bankers garden property has already beer bought In its endeavor to gain further neces sary right of way concessions by the paymen of the full purchase price, or its equivalent, tht company justly counted upon receiving the un qualified cooperation of the city. But, on tn, contrary, certain members of the council anC private individuals as well, have been so blinC to the city's welfare and so devoid of an, vestige of public spirit that they have placed every conceivable obstruction in the way of tn, company's attempt to increase the extent of its
 lines Tn this vicinity The granting of the ap plication by the council would result in a widen ing of the right of way from Bankers garder to the Old Dominion slag dump, something tha the veriest tyro in railroad building from its local aspect can see will ultimately be neces sary.
 On just what reasons at least one member o1 the council bases his refusal to act on this ques tion and to act favorably is hard to see. The council went over the ground and had the de sired change pointed out to it in detail so tha ignorance of the circumstances, which pardons so many transgressions, can not be pleaded here. At first the council seemed heartily il favor of the plan proposed by the railroad com pany. But since then, whether by the maigr influence of an individual venting persona spite, or for other reasons no better grounded an adverse sentiment has arisen. It hardly needs to be said that a public official has no right tC the exercise of personal spite in his official ca pacity as a servant of the public. If mar m office lets his desires for vengeance or fnan cal gain pervert his judgment, he is guilty of an otfense against humanity which no public however docile, can or should forgive He has stamped himself thereby as the most incapable of officials, and disgrace to the community r which he lives. And let us hasten to say that the public veal is sped with his swift and per manent removal from any office carrying with it the power for good or evil.
 The railroad company has gone to great ex pense to build shops and lay out yards in Globe This work, to be sure, was done from purely business motives. A corporation can not be philanthropic in its operation and live. But a railway company has right to at least expect reasonable and just cooperation from city Tn the furtherance of new transportation facili- ties. Railroads and cities grow up together and anything that retards the growth of one immediately affects for the worse the progress and industry of the other In county like Ari- zona, cities are in the building everywhere Some will be great and prosperous, some will be small and decadent But the moral that where the most railroads go, there will be the greatest center of population and of commercial activity is written in letters so glaring tha, none conversant with conditions can fail to read them in all their significance And the de liberate haltng of the wheels of progress by any mulish malicious and shortsghted mdivid ual in public or private position is heinous crime against the community at large.
 Globe is now standing with all her incalcula- ble wealth at the door of an industrial future that even the most optimistic have never yet realized in it's entirety. Plans for railroad building to further her industry are already made by the Southern Pacific Railroad company The word condtionaIly is used advisedly, for at this most critical time, when the advantages of Globe as a railway center are being weighed in the balance with those offered by other cities, new and growing and rich in resources, certain dilatory conduct on the part of public officials may easily so change the trend of circumstances that Globe will miss large part of the facilities necessary to the fullest attainment of the prosperity that is her due.
 We earnestly wish that the conditions were