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♦MAYOR Ol/XXK OX KmXOMH RKKORA. In view i f III - prepjexing utterance* ivn Kiiliv met with concerning th** relations dial the movement. whose Him ii is t«» supplant the regitu vi private ownership of public utilitic** with ,lm? public ownership. bears to socialism, the f• iitj, from the pen «d .lamfs lt;Tvdmnn. mid published in the New York World, is of timely*interest:I am no Soeialist. -aid .ludge Duuuc, the square-jawed, newly-elected mayor of OiieagM. as ! he sal upright in n splendid gilt ehuir in the \Vnl-! lt;Wf%\Moria hotel, hfrked his strong hands I over one knee.Chore is a singular sense of hone and musde and unU'inJahle backbone about him. Hi* hnz« I eyes shine with enthusiasm. lie speak- with a ^winging directness, without evasion and unparcut-J.v without st*II-couH*iousni-s.'.-I -uppo.* that, roughly speaking. aboutOf.Mt.OtH) of private capital is invented in the .stockownership of public titiliti«— in Chicago.” continued Mayor-elect D untie. “That docs not r.ivr r bond*-. I here will D* bond- uiwler the public ownership plan. It is fair to c^timnu tin- mcivs in* v«’-'f• sI in stocks covering public utilities all •»■. r the •■.motry at something like l.ooo,!w o, J„,:object #.f our movement i- ilt;» convert that private ♦wiM'fhhip iiito h public ownership.“With a movement 011 such a large scale. and involving the conversion of such a vast property, how will it I** jm-aibh* t*» prevent it fr«»m being merged into state Socialism. .fudge Dunne fThe Iii»«- of de-market ion is very dear. Kvcry privilege which carries with it the permanent u*.ii «d public property should b*' owned nnd cscrcirtcd Ivy the public. Thui i- our central thought. S«»-ciali-m h opposed the right of private capital. The Socialists would clone the door of private ••u-lerprisp nnd private opportunity. That ir- absolute-ly un-oiirtd. While we believe that public prnpcrty should U- Used l»\ the public and for the public, iv* arc jus! as ennufd in our support of the rights of private properly- N*r do we aim at au,v scheme «f confiscation. \\ believe in conversion by die proves* of law and with fair eoinjxMteiitioii.“I did not arrive at my present Conclusion on this subject through reading bonk* on speculative theories of political economy. My position is the roault of attrition. I ramr in contact with hard facts, with practical r*?irilt;dtes growing nut of practical conditions. When I was at Interlaken, in Switzerland. I sent a telegram to Lucerne. I had to pay b or otiis. 1 forgot which. When 1 a-ked why the price was so low, I was told that the government owned the telegraph wires.*1 have in mv jacket 0 -tr**er railroad ticket of Sydney. N**w South Wale*, which cost only one and a half cent* in our money. A year and a half ago I lived in an outlying district of Chicago, now covered by the general system of tin' city, I wn-‘•upplied with water by a private corporation. M water hill for three months nnd nine days wasSJiMMt. M last uliter bill paid to the city for a ;-is months' supply tor n h *u-e of the -urn*—i/cseventeen moms occupied by stevenimt persons—was only $Tf..Hh My electric light bill fur the month of .1 uly, woj. was *-!•. I paid that to n private company. In :h- following year I -pent a part of the summer at Southampton. 111., where the electric light plant in owned by the town. Mv hill for tin month of July and f«r at least the -atnc amount of electric light wm* uh r *l..Nt. I could spend hours in giving you illustrations of that kind.It was these stubborn facts that eon verted me. Tile injustice revealed by them could not he ignored. I« is facts like thc-e that form the chief argument Mt the Socialist*. They point to the eru-h-ing mid demoralizing effect of private ownership of public utilities and call for ih* overturning of our whole theory of government arid civilization. Our public ownership movement aims at a correction of actual evils, it- succcs- would take away from Socialism, it* chief weapon. Any reasonableman ought to In- able to »•. that. Our movementi* on . different plane and fovur* n different area than the Socialist programme. We arc fighting for a plan consistent with tit* principle* of our in-tiUitioiis. We name tin* evils and propn-c a definite, practical and thoroughly proved remedy.flow far does your idea of public ownership g*'1 - Docs it include -tate ami national ownership and cp..rat ion of public utilities i”“I hclii vi that the natniual government should own ami ojierate the iuter-rat- railroads, t*de-pltfnic-, telegraphs and on press-currying systems. I’he state and tniinicij.ali!i»»s -lw.uld take pus-c*. *iii of the urban or iuterurban * \pres- systems, sfhfet railwa.-. gns work-, electric light plants, telegraphs. telephones. st«iiiii-!icMitiiig plants and other utilities which irivriho the pcrmiinent use* of puhlic protM-rr.v. I aUo ladicvc that the protective tariff should Ur abolishc*!.1 lie remarkable man win* thus o-i forth the aim? nnd -c*.pe of the public ownership movement, of which Iv is now the acknowledged lender, has1...... for thirteen years a judge of the circuit #t»urtof Illinois, and rank- third among the twenty eight circuit imlccs in the solinditt^s of hi- dcci-ions. ae-' ci»rding t*» tin determination ..f fhe* court y\ hmt re-j sort, lie i- live feet eight iirirhe* high, weighs liJO j prtiimU. ha- 11 sturdy. cr«-er hgure. iron-gray pair 1 that bunclie- euri.nidv **U either side of hi- wcll-roinidnl, slightly-hald head.Ih* strong, square cotnifcnuncc would he grim hut lor 1 In.- pleasant hazel e.e and over-ready niih*. Tim nu.se i? straight, the chin formidable, 'lie mouth i- get and straight, and the long upper lip covered by a dom-cropped gray nnt.stadie.The lender o* the public ownership movement i Irish by «h-cent .,,1 both -id-r of his family. He j showr his Celtic derivation in his face and in hi I impulsive frankngs., ;,„d foarle*»ue— of criticism. Hi- gramlfatlvr was a h,den in Ireland. Ill- fa liter was born in King - eotinU, Ir« lend, ami lunl .1 iN.lieg, e-lucution. Ih an- ;,r various time- a distiller, a brewer and a th.ur miller, lie served i\± memD r of the Illinois bgi-hituiv. and in vho eirv council nf P.wria. H«- i- now retired from act ire hiisintSK and raises honey lt;m « little otafe in Illinois.: Judgr Dunne-- mother wn- horn in Galway. :l„d 1- a good old family. Ih-r father wnlt; a contra.-tor and built many important public* work* in Ireland, iiurluding the d*H*ks of Galway,-4-----fI;11a}I1rtGnIIh1Mia01i*.atUt!illtfa-jilirismfcdfitit,thIT*nlt;fcIII*irallin*inion!UMoney rules inertly because men are for sale. And men avc always for sale when they have no object of devotion. The progress of civilization u men that are really *0 ft lit* modern ddrit. the supreme object of devotion—the object itt dying for which they may truly live. The tirst-da- men of history, arc those that have wrought in lit,;- passion • *f some conception of world order. And the great nmiiient- of history, have been those in which n whole people Iras h.vn inspired with a dear visionof a universal aocrictv—Charles Ferguson*tooliIlkliftHll,Thsoryotfa*dmoneisHo tbi it i tinpai
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Salt Lake City Intermountain Catholic
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Sat, Apr 29, 1905
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