Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-23


Copyrighted, 1899, by Frank G. Carpen-
ter
Pocatello. Idaho Dec. 10, lS99.-Wilh-
IN the past week have had interviews
with two Of the leading younS poliu-
clans Of the west one was Carter II.
Harrison. the mayor Of Chicago the
other was former Senator Fred 7. pu-
.bels Of Idaho. / met Carter Harrison
IN the mayors office in the city hall OF
Chicago The day was rainy and CHI
cago was dirty tramped through dir
ty streets into a dirty building and was
taken to a third or fourth floor in a
dirty little elevator, and thence TO the
mayors office, which was comparative
IS clean. The mayor was not present
when ] arrived. and as l waited the
thlrty-odd mayors Of Chicago past, all
gray haired and almost all gray beard
ed, looked down upon me from the wall.
GREAT Is CHICAGO.
In a short time the mayor entered
He did not seem half the age of any
man upon the wall, and the blur off,
hand way I'm which he shook hands, was
typical of Chicago. My first question,
OF course. related TO the city How -
Chicago? Does it still grow, and how
many people have you now? You al
ways ask these questions Of Chicago
| man. II gives him a chance 90 cay
at the start what you know he IS
| bound 10 say before you get through
and II saves time. The mayor was by
no means backward In answering.
He put his thumbs In the arnholes
| Of his vest. gfipped his cigar between
his teeth and leaned back as he replied,
I'VE have now 100000 population
But. Mr. Mayor, ! mean just how
many people have you In reality what
would an actual house to house count
show forth?"
"Ohl II you wish 20 be exact should
say we have about 100000. We are
growing so fast that We have given up
counting the odd hundred thousands
what is Chlcago's percentage OF
GROWTH"
I'VE have grown about 100 per cent
within the past ten years. This is the
rate at which we are growing now
do YOU think that rate VIII con-
unue?" -,
- - have no doubt OF It. We will
probably have 100000 In 1910, in 1920
we will have 100000. really believe
we are as big as New York now But
that municipality has swollen Itself by
taking in all outdoors Chicago VIII
soon be the biggest city of this bemls-
phere. and eventually, the biggest city
IN che world
WHAT CHICAGO WANTS OF UNCLE
SAM.
what are the sources Of Chlcagos
GROWTH" ! asked.
"It Is the center Of the biggest coun-
try on the globe" replied Mayor Harrl-
| son. 1T has millions OF people tribu-
tary 10 It. and IL is 50 situated as e
| water and land transportation that II
| will always grow. Take our drainage
] canal; this some day will be part OF
a ship canal to the Mississippi river, II
has already cost us $50, 600, and We
viii give II to Uncle Sam II he viii put
A little money on ii and deepen II so
| as 10 make II a ship canal from the
lake to the Mississippi 49,.
What do you mean by lltue
money!" I asked,
"Oh. five million or perhaps ten mil
| lion dollars" replied the young mayor,
as though the sums were mere taGa-
telles. 1T would pay the government
to give us thirty million dollars or fifty
million dollars for that purpose When
| that canal is built We shall be an ocean
| port and ships Of ffteeen and eighteen
| feet will come right from the sea up
| through the Gulf Of Mexico and the
Mississippi TO Chicago. We have al
ready made our canal forty miles long
and twenty-five feet deep. II viii take
only little dredging and some WORK
to do the balance
But those are big sums, Mr.. Mayor,
said I. Il doubt whether II will pay
PAY" said the mayor. ut would pay
enormously as a commercial PROPOSE
ton. II would reduce freight rates all
over the west. The railroads would
have 20 come down, and II would give
a vast outlet for our products 60 the sea
IL would be OF great value from mill
tary standpoint As II Is now by our
treaties with England we can only have
one war vessel on the great lakes at a
time. England Is restricted in a similar
way, but IN the event OF war II
could send its ships up the ST. Law
renee and the Welland canal. and our
lake cities would be AZ their mercy
with our canal we could bring our boats
up the Mississippi and into Lake Michi-
gan"
DOES NOT LIKE THE ENGLISH,
eve are now at peace with England
and there is great deal OF gushing
over our Anglo American alliance the
mayor went on. "The people say that
blood Is thicker than water and they
apprehend that no trouble can come
with England. That is all foolishness
We are OF a different blood than the
English. We are not Anglo-SaXons.
We are n mixed race, made up OF the
cream OF the nations OF Europe, and
composed Of Americans and all sorts Of
foreigners including Germans, Scan
dinavians and others who have no
friendship with England. ! believe that
the English will be our friends just as
long as IL pays them 10 be so. ! am
not in favor Of entangling alliances in
peace or war. | thing Uncle Sam
care Of himself, and he should stick to
his Own field. which is this hemi-
sphere"
THE PHILIPPINES.
Then you do not believe In our new
possessions In Asiatic watersY
mo, | don't think we want any
property so far away as the Philippines
| believe that America Is big enough
for all our energies. IL is by far the
best part OF the earth's surface, and We
should be satisfied with H."
"As to the Philippines continued
Mayor Harrison. II can't see why we
want them. The population they have
now is thicker than that Of Illinois, and
Il will cost us enormously TO hold
them. see no reason why the Filipinos
should not be allowed TO rule them
selves. Admiral Dewey says they are
superior 10 the Cubans, and We propose
10 let them govern themselves
"Wnl the Philippine question cut
much Of a figure In the coming cam
palgu?"
"Yes. I think Il will be one Of the
leading issues I mean the question OF