Show ll iAL O New York World orld Tho The tremendous majority by Ii which the people of oC Chicago have hare Indorsed the principle of o municipal ownership of o street streel railroads Is i not tot a II cool verdict up tip upon upon tipon on the comparative merits of ot public anti private enterprise It IH is n it revolt Intolerable corporate abuses abuseR The Tue street railroad companies comp of ot Chi Chicago cago for tor years kept the tho city In a n state litO to toot of ot siege The Tho citizens slop slept with arms In their hands ready to Jump up imp nt ot the thc sound Munet of o tho tha anti nd hurry to Springfield to head off ort legislative raids upon their streets street or Invade the tho City Hall Hail with ith rope ropo halters to 10 scare council councilmen councilmen men out of ot schemes of ot robbery At last lost they have hwo said Wo We will vIii not maintain nn aim enemy within our pates gates any nn longer wo we will manage cur lur own affairs anti and If I we mango thom them badly It U will always bo be open to us mis to reform Time The Just dust complaint of ot the time Chicago o people In Is f that all the benefits of at corporate manage management ment meat go to tho tue corporations and none nOM to the tho public Now Nosy York Vork Herald Tho The signal success of ot Glasgow OIn go In mu I nil all the public services Is 19 continually cited with resulting more liberal treatment of ot time the employee al nl leg tl better service serlee lower charges nail and profit to the lie city government together with time the fact tact that almost every manic In Great arel Britain now not no operates Its street railways or la is preparing to do so There hero Is 19 s a great glon I difference be bo tween teen tho the conditions In these and those in our grent cities In view of oC the tho Inefficiency wastefulness and amid dishonesty that hat prevail In city nd ad administrations ministrations In this country countr It Is la ocr tain aim that thoughtful persons persona are aro averse worse to Intrusting them with now hOW functions Involving enormous In the number of ot public Hartford Courant i There are many to whom tho the spectacle cle do of Ut a II city government taking on 10 oco to cuRt add to tho the possibilities or of political machinery Is I n a That Is la the real danger changer In municipal control It U lain hal been openly asserted by IJ n a lending railroad manager ot of this hIs country that time the great reat combination of o capital mean macan a 1 drift Into a II condition where government ownership will shii have hato to tim be ito tho time outcome and If I such lIuch owner shin does conic come about flint will mann 1 such Mitch nn an array of ot political service o iii the man In hi power van can an keep keel In iii ns as long ns us ho imo wishes In other words tho the final development would bo n t Ration Doston Journal There hao been hlen scandals enough at nt inching to 10 tho the street railway service In Chicago under tho the system of ot corporate ownership and management but con can people will vIii regard with some solicitude the adoption of o time the now pol icy boy Ic There ama plenty of ot precedents for lor It In English cities but time tho th results have not been In nIl all ca Cases cs satisfactory TIme The hl public d debt bt has accumulated and ond OperatIng expenses ct have Increased Chicago now an nn opportunity of ot working out the tho experiment upon a n large barge scale rind and tho the practical results will bo watched with close chose Interest nil all over the tho country Now York r Post Ten thousand streetcar employee add acid ed 11 to tho time payrolls would ns 11 a Chi cago newspapers havo have pointed out omit open up tip a n now anti ami rich Held for far graft gratt lag InK mind what Chicago demands now Is n a clearing up of o tho the civil service scan dais dals are causing tho the city numb admin battalion to ho bo discredited Municipal ownership with will probably iiVo to wait for or Its trial but meanwhile Chicago alO will trIll uso tho the authority granted na ilK a a I club chub to compel compol hotter service from Irom tho the ten tem licensed corporations Providence Journal Tho limo chief question will be he whether politics can bo be eliminated to thaw such n a 1 public utility to lo ho bo man tonn aged and amid economically Indianapolis Journal It Is doubtful It If municipal manage ment meat of or public utilities will succeed In a 1 city offering an as largo large n a Held field for tor mu corruption as IS a Chicago does dews |