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Excerpt from How Should Chicago Be Governed? Birmingham, known as the best governed city in the world, under the able administration of the Honorable Joseph Chamberlain, gained possession of the gas works and the water works by purchase, and has since Operated them at great saving to the consumers and profit to the city. The price of gas was reduced to two shillings and five pence (about 60 cents) per thousand feet. An improvement scheme was also inaugurated by Mr. Chamberlain and the Town Council of 1875. It is stated by Julian Ralph to be one of the most stupendous, courageous and wise acts ever performed by a municipality. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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From the PREFACE: FOR more than a quarter of a century I have witnessed the growth of Chicago as promoted or obstructed by its government. Waves of reform have come and gone as the tides come and go. Franchise after franchise has been given away until the municipality has parted with many of its most valuable rights, and to the extent that its people are in modern slavery. A new factor has come into the political life of the city, called the Civic Federation. Its membership includes many of the principal men of Chicago. It has made considerable headway in the suppression of vice, and it has entered upon a somewhat vigorous legislative campaign, but its measures savor of the visionary, and thus invite failure. Chicago needs a deliverer, a leader strong enough to raise the people to a higher plane of political morality. There are already too many reformers who are in the business because it is popular. Most of the measures proposed for the betterment of the people are impracticable; and, amid the noise and parade of sham and hypocrisy, real opportunities are being lost. A municipal election is about to take place, involving questions greatly affecting the welfare of the city. The legislature is in session frittering away valuable time with no prospect of giving Chicago needed relief. In the midst of these things the writer ventures to point out the real conditions and requirements of Chicago, to review its political history for a year or two, to expose the false pretenses of reform, and to point out in plain, blunt, strong terms, such as may prove valuable to readers in this and every other American city, HOW TO GOVERN CHICAGO, from the standpoint of a PRACTICAL REFORMER. Chicago, Feb. 20, 1895.
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Excerpt from How to Govern Chicago For more than a quarter of a century I have witnessed the growth of Chicago as promoted or obstructed by its government. Waves of reform have come and gone as the tides come and go. Franchise after franchise has been given away until the municipality has parted with many of its most valuable rights, and to the extent that its people are in modern slavery. A new factor has come into the political life of the city, called the Civic Federation. Its membership includes many of the principal men of Chicago. It has made considerable headway in the suppression of vice, and it has entered upon a somewhat vigorous legislative campaign, but its measures savor of the visionary, and thus invite failure. Chicago needs a deliverer, a leader strong enough to raise the people to a higher plane of political morality. There are already too many reformers who are in the business because it is popular. Most of the measures proposed for the betterment of the people are impracticable; and, amid the noise and parade of sham and hypocrisy, real opportunities are being lost. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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