The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-08
CIRCUIT ON CITY OWNERSHIP.
FEARS 1T MAY BE FORCED on Us
ny AGITATORS.

Wants 20 See How chicago Comes out
Before IL Is Tried Here-Gen. Grant
speaks n Good Word for FilIpInos
symposium AZ PatrIa clubs Feast.
The Patria Club held its fifth annual
dinner at the Hotel Savoy last night. About
200 members we're present. The speakers
were Comptroller Edward NJ. Grout. DR..
j, H, Finley, president Of the College Of the
| City Of New York; Brig. Gen. Frederick
D. Grant and the Rev. Merle st. Croix
Wright. John A. Dutton, president Of
the club was POSTMASTER. Comptroller
Grout said:
Judging BY, what has been said before,
It seems TO be in order TO talk shop this
evening. You may expect me to denounce
the Board Of Aldermen but l will not to-
night. 1t is not necessary, as all here are
Of one mind concerning that body"
Then he turned to Chicago. Il know
no thing about Chicago he said, 'but
the burdens imposed by the big street rail-
ways must have reached the limit 10 cause
the people TO vote almost unanimously
for municipal ownership, fear that some
agitators or mere opportunists may take
up the cry of municipal ownership because
it is popular now and thrust the question
upon New York before we are ready for it.
L believe be said emphatically, that
the city should not part with it, franchises
and that it should keep the right to It's
own streets. But hesitate at the idea of
the city trying TO own it's own railways.
There are questions want to see settled
rst-things to be considered-the question
Of wages, hours OF work, pensions, maybe,
and the like Before we attempt it / want
to know there Is no other way. l want
TO sec Chicago come out Of it before New
York goes in.
the Philippines 10 keep peace among the
turbulent and treachcrous natives To
perform the same duties in Boston, Phila-
delphia and New York, he said, we ha d
1900 men, which showed how the War
Department estimated tho civilized inhabi-
tants Of those cities.
Gen. Grant said be did not find the Fill
pinos either tTeacheTous or cowardly. He
spoke Of the efforts the Americans are
making TO educate them. This country,
he said has done more for them than any
nation ever before did for another. SO
marked has been our SUCCESS there that
now the people Of India are asking the
British Government for reforms based on
the American practices In the Philippines.
He closed by saying that the people Of the
Philippines are grateful for their good
condition and that 900 out OF every LOCO
be liev they are better OF under American
guidance than they would be If left TO them
se Ives.
President Finley said he would speak
about the education Of the Filipinos on this
side Of the water. Then he told how the
ancients sought out the Sioyl for in
struction and sorted out the leaves p. Z
before them for guidance. Il had to
do the same" he said, "and the leaves l
have are part Of what will in few weeks
be a book" Then he turned TO the report
ers; This is copyrighted, he said, and
wan you not TO use more than one-third
Of what / shall read.
He spoke Of the generous way in which
our Government treated the early pioneer
giving him lands, mines, wealth, wherever
be found and claimed them. There Is
vast domain, he continued, mot inherited
by the individual l-the domain Of higher
education. This the Government must
de We lop il she keep herself out OF the poor
house of nations, and she must treat as
literally in this domain the poor ignorant
immigrant az she treated the early pioneers
in the matter of material wealth.
The speaker then told OF a recent visit
TO Ellis island when 5000 foreigners landed
while there we're facilities for handling but
5000. THE College Of the City Of New York.
Of which have the honor 10 be president,
he said lis the only means these people
have for higher education We're II not
for this institution, not one in twenty could
possibly hope to receive the benefit OF such