Show THE GALVESTON PLAN Dr Charles W Eliot who has just retired from the presidency of Harvard university has recently visited Galves Galveston Ga G ves veston ton Tex and warmly commends the plan of municipal government put into force in the Gulf city In an address at Galveston the other night Dr Eliot said The great lesson that Galveston has given to the country is the conduct of the business after business principles getting a dollars worth for every dollar expended and a days work for tor the pay given It is a lesson tesson of banishing crookedness cheats and fraud of every nature sine sinecures sinecures sinecures cures men who draw pay for no ser Eer service service vice rendered In short the bus business busIness iness mess is run as p a private business would be run Strong testimony from the leading educator and one of the most profound thinkers In the world today Yet the members of the best legislature Utah ever er had profess to know better Within the last two years ears said Dr Eliot there has been an increase in inthe Inthe inthe the discussion as to the best means of municipal reform for it has become a recognized fact that this is If the point at which American free Institutions have met with their most disastrous failure Foreign observers upon visits here have pointed out that the failure to provide our cities with honest and efficient government go has become the most serious stain on American history In tn the last tast fifty years It was therefore a welcome experiment set on foot here bert nine years ago go I have studied th tho Galveston G veston city charter as well as the charters of other Texas cities that have haw tried the commission form and then I 1 have studied the Iowa modification and last August I visited Iowa to see how llo they have worked it out there Thus far tar In Massachusetts I have ad advocated advocated advocated the plan and I am glad to say sa that within the last year ear or two three cities have hae succeeded in getting char charters charters charters and are now experiencing the ben hen benefits benefits ellis of the change And still the tho dis rages on one on side aide there being principally the political machines which invariably oppose the plan on the other being citizens who realize re the he vast Importance of reform along this line tine The distinguished scholar and pub publicist publicist could not fall tail to observe that the political poll tf t machines es were ranged ran bed on the side of the plunderers Consequently under the present system the state stale po ye political or ons control municipal affairs through the leading parties and men who are arc unfitted In every way are foisted upon a longsuffering public It IJ 0 only a matter of time however be before before before fore the citizens of the cities clUes will wake awake to the fact that they the arc are not nol set get setting g l ting Ung ng their moneys worth orth and Insist theist pon Upon a change Speed the day |