Arizona republican., 1915-07-24
SPEAKERS MEANT
 ALL THEY UTTERED
Main-Line Dinner Crowded. Enthusiasm Runs Even Higher Than Tempera- tme - Committee to Be Named to Start Things

Named tO Start Things
 Not all the hired hands. who win ultimately deIve and hammer and saw and go through the other acts of con structins a main line railroad through Phoenix will sweat over it as much as the faithful 175 business men who gathered at the banquet last evening to plan said road They called things by their right names. hence sweat" rather than 'perspire' one sentence back.
 Speaking in the double capacity of an apologist for the legislator and as a business man intensely interested in securing better railway facilities for the valley e $. StapIey of Mesa end ed program that was snappy in spite Of wilted collars. and full of pep in spite of the fact that it was also full of the futile smoke stirrings of q dozen electric fans. He ended it with the flat statement that while Phoenix has been talking main line. and con siderins all the things necessary to he done for such a line. Mesa has got her business men together and made them pledge ground for depots. switching yards, etc. Down a little further will be found the resolution. containing exactly what Mesa did So. some more of Stapley:
 The Mesa senator fully agreed with all the others who had been taking a few digs at the mass of capital scar ing laws that Arizona has got herself possessed of He agreed in no uncer- tain terms. But he also spread. forth the information not generally dis semiHated vet that legislation. calcu- lated to irritate and provoke that cap Ital which is already sore. had been blocked prettily in the late passed as sembly of the lawmakers. This. ac- c"rding 10 Stapley, was at least lit- tie evidence in the favor of a body of lawmakers. who had apparently done little enough to dilute the acid of so- cialistic and anarchistic laws with the milk of human kindness.
 Stapley agreed with the others that capitalists had to be enlisted on the side of Phoenix before road could be built, and that capitalists are just 2s human. and full of woe and errors as Frank Niele had claimed they were
 Just to vary the matter a bit Stap- ley donated a few figures They were awful deep figures on freight rates. and really too much for the sated ap- petites of the auditors who had sat through two hours of speaking. but the totals were such as to arouse mighty interest. By perfectly good sets of numbers. Stapley proved that the Salt River Valley pays out around half a million dollars every six months to send and receive freight on the line to Maricopa Mesa alone raid $5E401 in tariffs on all sorts of carload lots both going to and com ing from Maricopa in the first six months of 1915. And this figure bids fair to be duplicated by the freight of July alone. he said
 Laws that are admitted to be pre- venting railroad construction in Ari- zona are irrevocably on our statute books. as far as the legislature is con cerned. The only thing to do. is to organize the business men of the state and initiate measures that will annul these radical laws" said the speaker. at the conclusion of his remarks about his former associates at the state house
 In the exact order in which the speakers appeared;
 Al Moore
 Mopped his brow and made a face tious remark about the weather and then introduced
 c. B. Wood
 Postmaster Wood thought because he was to talk about population. he would fulfil his contract. He did so. The population of Phoenix he said. was not balanced right Phoenix needs no more lawyers. beyond the l05 whose shingles dangle already SiNty-seven doctors are amply able to take care of the health of this aiis- gustingly healthy community But in the 24.ooo or 25.000 population here and he wouldn't take sides on the census question-there are not nearly l enough railroad men.
 More railroad men will mean a big l payroll, and if those railroad men 1 come tO work on a through line rail- road, it will mean saving a section 1 ont of the distance between Phoenix and her markets, and will create a lot of happiness all around
 only the F. P. and s. w is in a position to fulfil the dearest mainline l wishes of Phoenix That is the logi- 1 cal road to build through. C. B. wanted q committee on the subject. but as he was assigned to population. he waited until the others had all talked, and it was his turn again. 1 Then he put across 9 motion to Gre ate committee of seven from all the
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