The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-08
MAYOR.ELEGT DUNNE SPEAKS IN NEW YORK
BRINGS TIDISGS OF GREAT LOT
 FROM THE WEST.
Man Who is to Head chicago'. City Government Declares the Exploita- tion of Public Property by Private Capital. With Its Attendant Greed. Extortion and Corruption Has Had Its Day.

Its Day.
 New York. April 7.-Fresh from his triumph in the recent municipal cleo tion, Mayor-elect Edward F. Dunne, of Chicago, came to New York to-day, and tonight addressed a large meeting in Cooper Union under the auspices of the Municipal Ownership league in this city. He told his hearers how he ex- pected to carry out his pledges made il his recent campaign in Chicago to at tain municipal ownership, of the bene- fits, as he conceived them, of city con- trol of public utilities, and he closed with congratulations to the local league on being pioneers in his movement in New York. His speech was enthusiasts tically received.
 Recent agitation in New York for nlu- inicipal ownership added interest to Judge Dunne's utterances. James Gra- ham Phelps Stokes. vice-president of the league, presided and Introduced Chicagos mayor-elect in a ten-nninute speech. Judge Dunne, said in part:
 We bring you tidings of great joy from the men of the west. The ex- |ploitation of public property by private capital, with it's attendant greed, extor- tion and corruption, has had it's day in American cities, but that day is about to end. Next Monday Chicago starts upon her mission of dislodging private capital from the control of our street. car system. She has succeeded in the operation of her waterWorks system, in paying some s3S,O00,O0O for its equip- lment; has loaned $5,000,000 from that department to the sewer system, is to-
 day giving the cheapest water of prob-8 ably any city in America, and has a cash surplus of nearly $1 1,000,000 She has so managed her electric light plant that she has reduced the cost of arc lamps from $125 to about $54 per annurns She is operating both departments. as we'll as her police, fire and educational departments, without scandal, graft or corruption, besides cheapening the cost of utilities furnished to the public. She will have the same record of success i'll relation to her street-car system. You men of New York may surpass us in
 wealth, and, it may be, in culture, but Chicago, in our judgment, is the nerve center of America and the leader of economic thought and action. Chicago is the only city in America that has de- clared by an overwhelming majority in favor of the municipalizatio of her Istreet-car system, and what Chicago wills she does
 Judge Dunne reviewed the conditions
 in Chicago which, he said, had resulted in the recent victory for municipal own ership. The struggle began ten years |ago, when private capitalists induced the legislature to grant ffty-year fran- Ichises. Before, however, the capitalists could have an ordinance passed by the city council, pursuant to the terms of the state act, the people of Chicago were upon their feet, with fire in their eyes and determination in their faces The next legislature was compelled to repeal the law, and from that time to this the people of Chicago, on one side, land the capitalists, on the other, were in a life-and- death struggle for the pos- session of the streets.
 I The citizens of Chicago" continued Judge Dunne, have been educated up to the fact that municipality can op- |erate any of the public utilities with (Continued on Eighth Page.)