Arizona republican., 1914-05-16
TRADE BOARD ANNUAL MEETING IS ORDERED
 TO BE HELD M FALL
NEW DIRECTORS OF
 BOARD OF TRADE
A. L. Moore

slough of financial despondency and put it on a cash basis. Not only myself, but other members of your city government, are willing to give bond that every municipal luxury may be provided and not to exceed forty cent tax be enforced inside the next four years
 Five years hence, and much less time, will see boulevards of every street in the city, and at a reduction of over sixty per cent of past and present costs. During the life of your present commission, any bond issues will be owned by the. city-not by outsiders Interest will be pay able at home-not to strangers with out our gates, but I am inclined to believe no bond issues will ever again be voted; rather it will be how to get in the present bonds be- fore maturity, for 1 believe there will be a surplus of money to pay these bonds long 'er due, simply from the savings in waste places
 Some may scoff at the idea of a new city hall, yet the honest scoffer generally remains to pray when he scoffs at intelligent and sincere men or their efforts. The incinerator was thought a dream of the future, but it is oW a fact of the present and should I tell you the saving that has been effected in this one inn provement and the terms that will be secured by the city in it's con- struction, you would not believe me at this time.
 My prophecy for Phoenix five years hence is-for beauty of the city and economy of administration, it will have few equals and no superiors. It's ordinances and methods will be copied and followed; our license or dinance, which will be made public in a few days, I do not think will have a peer in the municipal world.
 Now a few frank words in closing. utter them without spleen, and be- cause I believe I am right.
 This city has one of the might fest problems to solve in the history of municipalities, and in it's solu- ton, we must consider not only those living inside the city limits, but our brothers living in this valley outside of the city limits.
 I never have been strong for some of the methods of this board of trade, but there is a change and it makes me rejoice to see it. Men and so- ciety are passing from the selfish realm of individual profit to that grand one expressed in those beau tiful words, 'One for all and all for one" The latent resources surround
 ing Phoenix are beyond the imagina- tion of the most optimistic man. This board of trade has wasted thousands of dollars in outside land and health resort advertising Christ said, "The kingdom of God is within you'' and the virtues of any community are within that community.
 Divert some of these thousands of dollars to assist struggling but mer- itorious enterprises throughout this valley, which will result in taking down these for sale" signs in front of so many homes and farms Throw ten thousand dollars help to your cement mill east of town, which is a means of employment for men, and the saving of thousands of dollars annually to the builders and con- sumers of this valley.
 You have another enterprise in sight south of the town The mana ger has quietly spent thousands of dollars and is getting ready to spend much more and must run a pipe line from the river to get sufficient water. He has the money, but help him with the pipe line and prove the intent It means more markets for hay, grain and merchandise.
 Volumes could be said, and all truth, but if the work is taken up by the board of trade and the city com mission, working hand in hand, the most imaginative dreams of these grand old pioneers who have believed in Phoenix, have fought and sacri- 1 feed for 10, these many years, will all have come true within the next five years, and, they, with the prophet can say, T have fought a good fight; l have kept the faith-now take my COntinuQ6 on PaDa Tuol