The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-01
WELFARE LEAGUE
PRESENT RESOLUTION
commends City Administration and
Suggests Building New City
Hall In keokuk.

Resolutions passed by the Citizens
Welfare League commencing the new
city administration and suggesting
that some steps be taken to secure
q new city hall in which every citi-
zen could feel pride were today pre-
sented to the commissioners and
Mayor Moorh cad. The resolutions
were passed last week. The full text
of the document follows:
keokuk, Iowa, May 1. 1914.-I1on.
8. w. Moorehead, Mayor: Messrs. ].
A. M. Collins and F. T. F. Schmidt,
Commissioners, Keokuk, Iowa
Gentlemen: The executive committee
Of the Citizens Welfare League have
instructed US to write you in COM
mendation OF your efforts toward Sc
curing for the people of Keokuk q
clean, aggressive city government.
We appreciate the fact that you are
frequently confronted with complaints
from those who would USE you as
accomplices in violation Of law or the
evasion of city ordinances, and that
few indeed Of the many people living
within the city who desire q whole
some enforcem OF our laws take
time or thought to commend your &C
ton. It is encouraging from civic
standpoint to have city officials who
have due respect for la3s and orCsn-
ances and who strive for an economi-
cal and prudent administration Of city
affairs.
We wish to assure you that there
are many within the city who are in
hearty sympathy with the efforts
which you are making to conduct the
city affairs In clean, wholesome
and prudent manner, and the execu-
tive committee and the officers of the
Citizens Welfare League prefer you
their help and assistance in any mat
tiers in which you desire their aid and
cooperation, to the end that the
whole period Of your administration
of city affairs may be received with
like favor and comm sndation which
have attended your efforts thus far.
The executive committee also re-
quested us to call your attention to
the fact that the present city hall
facilities are not in keeping with the
prestige the city of Keokuk should
have, and that there are very few
things you could do from public
standpoint that would entitle your adj
ministration to distinguished honor IN
succeeding years than to provide
plans and devise ways for the con-
struction Of an adequate city hall. We
oi< ~ ho civ n.
portance Of Keokuk should be with
tout its own public buildings; that
these should be so located and so
con structed as to be such that each
and every citizen could take a wor-
thy pride therain
We believe that for every dollar OF
public money spent during your ad-
ministration the public will receive
full value therefor: and we, there
fore, suggest that the question of
constructing city administration
building be given earnest considera-
ton, and the executive COMMITTEES di-
reefs us to say that we pledge you
the earnest support OF the Citizens
Welfare League in the event such an
enterprise is undertaken.
Again assuring you OF our appre-
citation of the efforts that you have
made in securing clean, prudent.
/ wholesome city administration, we
are, Very truly,
CITIZENS WELFARE LEAGUE.
BY j. o. BOYD, President.
Attest.
C. e. WARWICK, Secretary.