Pamy Red Powers of Municipalities-A Discussion By 67 Foote Fa Allen Ripley F Of the Report on Municipal Program of the Special Committee Third Edition Press of C. E. Hollenbeck, Monument Place LAW OF INCORPORATED COMPANIES OPERATING UNDER MUNICIPAL FRANCHISES IS INVALUABLE: 1. To members of Council granting or regulating the franchise rights of these companies. 2. To members of the State Legislature enacting laws affecting these companies. 3. To City Solicitors or legal advisers of the municipal authorities or Boards granting or controlling franchise rights. 4. To those interested in municipal control and regulation of these public service companies. 5. To those who would like to know the law relating to these companies. 6. To attorneys for Water, Gas, Electric Light, Electric Power, Telephone or Street Railway Companies, etc. 7. To those interested in these companies as directors, officers, brokers o investors. In Three Octavo Volumes of over 3,000 pages, (1,000 COPIES SOLD AT $15.00.) THE OFFICIAL LIBRARY OF EVERY MAYOR AND PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATION MANAGER SHOULD CONTAIN THIS BOOK. THE ROBERT CLARKE COMPANY, Publishers CINCINNATI, OHIO. POWERS OF MUNICIPALITIES-A DISCUSSION BY ALLEN RIPLEY FOOTE1 Of the Report on Municipal Program of the NATIONAL MUNICIPAL LEAGUE Made at its Sixth Conference, Held at Indianapolis PRESENTED TO THE COMMERCIAL CLUB, INDIANAPOLIS DECEMBER 8, 1898 1 Post-Office Address, TAKOMA PARK, D. C. A Satisfactory Check for the Proposed Grant of Power This Check is Entirely Practical. Bonds Excluded from Debt Statements Should Not be Paid by Taxation.. Legislative Conditions for Municipal and Private Corporations Should Public Policy Should Protect Existing Investments.. Voluntary v. Compulsory Investment.... (2) IMPROVEMENT OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT. The work done by the Committee of Ten of the National Municipal League and its "Report on Municipal Program" entitles the Committee and the League to warm praise and thanks from every student of municipal subjects and sincere worker for the improvement of American civilization. The progressive development of civilization is dependent upon the morality and prosperity of the municipal homes of the people. From these centers of thought and concentrated energy issue the intellectual and economic forces that form and direct the public opinion and policy of the nation and of the world. No truths are clearer than those to the careful student of the influence of legislative and administrative government upon the welfare of the people. Civilized government is an expression of the morality and intelligence of a people ruled by the freely declared will of a majority. It can not be as good as those enjoying the highest development of morality and intelligence wish, but it is a great deal better than those suffering from an imperfectly developed moral and intellectual life are prepared to voluntarily obey. The problem of improving government must be solved by rightly teaching correct underlying principles and inducing a majority to demand their practical application in legislation and administration. Correct education must precede correct legislation. The justice of judgments rendered according to law can not be more just than the law. An honest people can not do right if they are misinformed. The justice of the laws they demand and enact is not determined by honest intentions, but by honest intelligence. A (3) |
