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How city government comes to be a mystery to the citizens, in some
respects harder to understand than state and national government
Dread of the "one-man power" has in many cases led to scattering and
weakening of responsibility
Committees inefficient for executive purposes; the "Circumlocution
Office"
Alarming increase of city debts, and various attempts to remedy the
evil
Experience of New York with state interference in municipal affairs;
unsatisfactory results
The Tweed Ring in New York
The present is a period of experiments
The new government of Brooklyn
Necessity of separating municipal from national politics
Notion that the suffrage ought to be restricted; evils wrought by
ignorant voters
Evils wrought by wealthy speculators; testimony of the Pennsylvania
Municipal Commission
Dangers of a restricted suffrage
Baneful effects of mixing city politics with national politics
The "spoils system" must be destroyed, root and branch; ballot reform
also indispensable
QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT
SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS AND DIRECTIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE


CHAPTER VI.
THE STATE.

Section 1.


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