The Business of Government Municipal (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Business of Government Municipal (Classic Reprint) written by Frank Melville Sparks and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Business of Government Municipal Neither have I patience with the man who constantly cries, Politician! At every public Officeholder and employee. My experience has been that the man who is successful in the election is the one styled politician' the defeated candidate usually manages to remain the good Citizen. '3 My experience, too, has been that the term political boss is applied only to the man who wins; the defeated candidate bears the honorable title of 'leader.' Thus I contend that the nation owes a debt of gratitude to those men who have given their time, energy, brains, and money to the business of government. The ills 01 govern ment are chargeable to those who have been too busy with their private affairs to give attention to the afi airs of all the people. The business of government has been a side issue. Under present conditions it is rapidly becoming the main issue. Business methods are taking the place of political methods. Interest, thought, suggestion by the people are taking the place of apathy or mere criticism. Government is becoming better. The idea of this volume is, therefore, to set forth the systems and methods employed in conducting the business in which every citizen is a stockholder. The attempt is made to show the development of the systems and methods, both the wrong and the right. Every statement and every illustration is a fact. It is not the theory of government but the practice of government that is written here. 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.