New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-19
Mr.. DALRYMPLE'S MISSION.
It's Difficulties and Dangers.

sorry for Mr.. Dalrymple; ana IN way,
an sorry. TOO. for the Glasgow Town 'ouhch. 1t
is not clear from the cable dispatches nor Is II
clear from Mr. DaIrymples letter TO Mayor Dunno
of Chicago which was printed in ali the news
papers yesterday how long tho Glasgow Town
Council is To loan Mr. Dalrymple's services 10 chi
cago. But Of this I am sure-if ME- paFyInple mas
been granted leave OF absence for year no VIII
need another six months to recuperae aIter ne gets
back to Glasgow he is coming out to attempt
tremendous task He Will be confronted with
political. social economic and newspaper coholu0hs
quite different from those OF Glasgow. he wiz nave
also TO deal with climatic conditions winch are
vastly different and which create great problems IN
street railway service; and. moreover he will be
subjected to the sharpest criticism not only from
those Chicago newspapers which are hostile TO Hu-
nicipaI ownership. but from every newspaper IN
the country-dally and weeky-which REGARDS nu-
nicipal ownership phase Of socialism
A FEW HINTS.
Nj Dalrymple may be on his way westward be-
fore this letter can appear IN The Herald But
on the chance that he has not started should IKE
to give him two or three hints to his attitude
toward the American newspaper press. JUST as
SIS he lands here in New-York he should state
emphatcally and finally that he will not give our
any interviews. and that he left all his photographs
at home. He should make the fact that ne VIII
not be interviewed known through one or other OK
the reputable newspapers in New-Y ork-Ihe IT'D
une. Thu Times The Evening Post'-naLang
II clearly understood tnaI any SO-Cal4cu 4NIC 't0
with him bogus. Unless he does this he will be
Inisrepresented from the first. MisstatementS VIII
be widely circulated that he never overtake or
correct: and besides this he will be harassed 10
death by reporters between New-York and Chicago
and will have no energy left for his first meeting
with Mayor Dunno. Mr. Dalrympe's next step
with regard TO the press should DO 70 make an ar
rangement with 4 newspaper clipping bureau in
New-York Chicago TO collect for him all COM
ments his work and dongs during the time he is
tho o1;+ OP
this arrangement. 11r. Dalrymple should then firm
" determine that during his stay in Chicago he
VIII not read anything that any American news
paper may say about him until ne is back once
in his own bailwick of Glassow-a bailiwtck
and a scene OF municipal service which ne WIN
value all the more-and never want to leave again
after six or twelve months Of Chicago.
NEWSPAPER CRITICISM
make these suggestions regarding the press IN
the interest Of Mr.. DaIryInpe's peace OF 1no' IN
the interest of that his friends and also IN te
interest OF the municipality OF Glasgow, which our
ing the next few months Will be almost as much
criticised as Mr.. Dalrymple himself. II MF. Oal-
rynple had been going eastward 10 supeFsoue
Rojestvensky admiral Of Russlas sluggish
wer feet would scarcely have been the target
for much crude newspaper criticism as ne Will
be during his mission IN the interest Of municipal
ownership in Chicago: for. as have SAID nlnlIc'-
pal ownership here is yet generally regarded as
only one remove from socialism; and do not tInnk
it IS asserting too much to say that ME- Da1ryInpie
and his associates of the municipal service OF G4as-
COW must not look for fair play from very large
section Of the American daily Newspaper press.
The great corporations in this country which con-
troll all public utilltes-the railways, the parcel
carrying service. the teegraphs and the telephones
the stTeetcar lines and the lighting undertakings
have for years past created and fostered the idea
that any movement to disiodge them or break up
their monopolies means rank socialism, revolution
and everything else thatis supposed to be disturb
ing and disastrous to the commonwealth. Tney
have met any demand for public ownership and con-
troll Of these public utilities with the statement that
public ownership would make American State and
municipal political conditions even worse than they
ars to-day