Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-30
COUNCIL VS. RAILROAD

''So the people may know, '" is good slogan. 1t is so easy for the great majority of us not to know just when opportunity is knocking at the doors of a city that if justice were done, the people should know, not half but the whole truth, and that, too, through the agency of those who are chosen to further their interests, the city officials. Unfortunately but necessarily, most of the people are much under the pressure of business competition that they find 1t impossible to keep informed on all the details of the city's administrative affairs. Nor have they the time to do 1t. The average person rightly considers that the men who are elected to protect and further municipal progress may safely be trusted to do this without any atten- tlon or espionage being exercised by the general public. And we believe that in Globe this belief is well-grounded. The majority of our city officials are absolutely trustworthy. progressive and energetic. They are big factor in the development of the greater Globe. But just as Tn any movement or enterprise, there is never absolute good unmixed with evil, so in this city's administration, there is small obstruc- tionist element.
 This would not be dangerous fact were 1t not for the reason that circumstances sometimes permit men who have sold themselves from motives purely personal to the cause of retro gresson to exercise such an influence that ac- tions detrimental to every best interest of a city are railroaded through in haste and re- gretted ever afterward
 There are two kinds of wrong that are equal ly bad. Be it cities or individuals they are chargeabe with two kinds of offenses-the wrong they actually do and the good which they leave undone And of these two failings com +c ko{b md, c full whether the passibe crime of asinine passv- ty and stupid deliberation should not receive a harsher rating than the offense of working evil through action either impetuous or malicious. A decision always makes room for action, but in prolonged delay in any movement of i'm portance stagnation, the most virulent malady of cities, is the result.
 Now it needs no acute dscernment or high degree of wisdom to make local application of all that has gone before i'll this article The greatest political poutice now needed for the of the ills to which this city is heir is the God-given faculty of doing something and of leaving fewer necessary things undone. The wisdom of the ages and the promise of the future are both embodied in the ability to act and to know when the time for action is ripe
 That the time for doing something in Globe IS now ripe, he who makes no pretense at foresight may discover. And the necessity for action is evidenced by number of things rela- tive to the obtaining of increased transporta- ton facilities i'll this city
 For instance, does the average citizen know that some three weeks ago formal application was made by the railroad company to the city council for the fair exchange of the strip of land where the tracks now lay on North Broad street for a new right of way on the east side of the Pina creek, and thence on up the hll- side to the Old Dominion shelter The grant ing of this request by the council would do away entirely with the present railroad crossing, as steel bridge would be built over the street to accommodate the railway This bridge, of course, would be constructed by the railroad company and wholly at it's expense The rail road company desires at this point to widen its