The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-05-10
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The Pathfinder y Winter
seem to be lingering in the lap of
spring a scandalously long time this
year.
We always knew the English were
a conservative n slow moving people
but did not believe they would ever
attempt to turn back the sum-, yet a
bill has been introduced in parliament
to turn back the clock an hour.
From the way in which the gang
papers are slushing over regarding the
appointment Of Reynolds, they must
defending of this appointment of the
Governor, and they are exactly right.
Delegate Andrews has introduced
bills in congress appropriating $780,
900 each for Federal buildings at Las
Vegas and Las Cruces. Neither of
there towns need a larger a~ppropr1a-
ton than Roswell, still The Record
hopes they will get what they ask for.
Roswell is no carer the commits
sion form of government than Santa
Fe is to annexing it suburbs, yet the
Thirty-eighth Legislature, upon h
especial request of those two cities
placed laws on the statute books to
enable Roswell to be governed by
commission and Santa Fe to annex it's
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Mexican.
The Roswell Democrat, after var
ious v~icissftudes, has gone to the news
paper heaven. Even the most Demo-
.-,%;z ro-f re tho Tnrritnru 10 mot q
profitable field for a simon pure De-
mocratic organ that cusses every
thing that is Republican and whose
main song is "de gang. Ever Dem
ocrats get tired of lei drivel-New
Mexican.
There is more humbuggery in the
Forest Reserve Service than in any
other departments of government SER
vice and that is saying a whole lot.
Timber lands should De protected. No
one doubts that, but 1t is absurd folly
to reserve purely grazing and agricul-
tural lands and allow the lumber cor
porations to gobble UP all the desira-
BILE timber lands. Yet this is just the
kind of work the Forest Reserve Ser
vice is doing.
The Republican party can nev be
SApSSlCo, WILL OIS pASoShI ~ 49, NoA
troll, to pass an income tax law. The
senate stands in the way. Men like
Aldrich n others of his ilk will kill
all attempts to get a bill through that
body. Thus the Republican party will
continue to tax the necessities of the
poor and stand in the way Of the
millionaire bearing his proper pro-
portion Of the burdens of supporting
the government.
A man who deliberately and know
ingly takes the property of another is
usually a thief. Yet the American
Sugar trust stole millions of dollars
from the government by the use of dis
honest clerks md crooked weighing
devices. The government called this
fraudulent practice" and assessed
the trust with a moderate fine. If
you must steal, take a million or more
and you become a prominent citizen;
steal a small sum and you are merely
a thief and go to Jail.
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The officials of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor estimate that there
are at least two million unemployed
in the country and that this number
has been constantly increasing dur
ing the last year. This is confirmed
from other sources, and charitable or
g~anizatious in the larger cities as
sert that conditions are worse than
for many years. Not only has the
number OF unemployed greatly in
creased blu wages have been largely.
decreased. Yet it is more than II
years since the country a had a De-
mocratic administration, and during
these twelve years b highest protec-
tive tariff the country has ever had
has been in existence.
Commission government has made
Des Moines conspicuous among Am
erican municipalities during the
past year because of the notable sue
cess Of the plan there, h net results
of the first years trial under its oper-
alton exceeding In every way the an
dcipations of its early advocates. A
plan that gave to Des Moines a bet
ter government; cleaner streets; an
improved police and fire protection; |
more public improvements than in