The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-07
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NEEDED. The Chicago News gives some strlk- i ina figures showing the great cost or running the government Of that cl'S' Chicago is a big city, true enousi~oi'9 of inc biz ones of the globe ana the youngest great city of its slze Ill 'iio world. One of our New Haveners' when reminiscent the other day, recalled 'iie fact that wears ago, and not very many years either he had an opportunity 'o buy an unimproved plot of lana III 1iii cago which was then "a little out ol 'iie citv''-in the then remote suouros' III fact. He had the cash and he hesi'a'- cd and the chance went by Ahothet man stepped in and bought the plot To-day that land which our neisiipoi could have bought for few huhureus is worth hundreds of thousands
 Rut it costs to run Chicago me Va rious governing bodies in that cl's snend more than $300oOoOo of pupilc funds every year. The News goes OH to show the city's sources of revenue for this year, enumeratine them' AUG eotbe, they reach the big total ot $Z9'- TOT ooo Yet this vast sum is declared by public officials wholly inadeauate to meet the necessary outlays TOT tve,va months. The News proceeds 10 ,e,,arlx. "Of course they would be ad- eouate or at least much more heai y sh if the wasteful and cumbersome sys- +en, of government with which Chicago is burdened were replaced by sane and effective system. The present histi cost of superf1uous governing pooles' inc lack of business organization, the waste at an intolerabe number or uh- necessary bungholes and spigots' the trucking to political expediency' would ronaar inadeouate any amount of reve- nue, however large"
 Here is an object lesson valuable te New Haven. This once Puritan clts was run much more conserVatiVeiS years ago than it is to-day. yet we are very fortunate that proper business methods vet prevail here to the exten' that they do, though judicious economy gives place too often to machine poll tice The careful ways of the fathers are no longer copied, but there art many good men and true yet left in th' administration of our affairs. The Chl cago News. after stating the great neef of reform there, tells what ought to o' done:
 NO community can afford to spen' its substance recklessly and withou adequate return. Chicago can amor such wicked waste least of all, since II actual needs are so great. In order | have good municipal service it mus simplify in every possible manner tn machinery of local government whic now works so wretchedly with sue e strident noises and to so little purpose Important reforms have been brough about of recent years, but there is stl a great deal more to do than has ye been accomplished. Reforms that nav been achieved thus far stand to tn credit of non partisan organizations l. citizens. They have bee g achieved in spite of politicians rathe = than with the assistance of those wol t tnes, If ever partisan politics and pal y tisan organizations were thorough T discredited anywhere and their Wortf y lessness demonstrated in connectio n with municipal affairs, that fate hs
 fallen upon them in this community. :. Chicago can be redeemed from I condition of beggary and uncleanline only by the citizens working beyor # partisan lines. It should the fixed purpose of the citizens to li
 bor earnestly and ceaselessly to reset
 the city from it's bad governing sy
 tenn and from the curse of partisan go y ernment under any system
 These are ringing and true words, al
 should bear good fruit. Chicago isr quite as badly governed as New 1o
 has been under Crokerism, but there
 nlainly plenty of room for improveme in the big Windy City.