Concerning Municipal Ownership, Том 3M. O. Publishing Bureau, 1908 |
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Concerning Municipal Ownership, Томи 6 – 7 Arthur Hastings Grant,C. F. Porter Повний перегляд - 1913 |
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Allen Ripley Foote ARTHUR HASTINGS GRANT bonds bound in cloth BRITAIN Burdett charge Chicago cipal citizens Cleveland committee CONCERNING MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP cost council Crocker in Inter-Nation Defunct Municipal Lighting depreciation economic Editorial electric light plant electric plant employes Engineer enterprise ership expenses fact franchise fund GAS COMPANIES Hugo increase industrial installed interest invested issue John Kendrick Bangs Journal labor Le Rossignol Leonard Darwin London County Council Lord Avebury loss mayor ment Meyer MO Publishing Bureau Moody's Magazine muni municipal electric light Municipal Lighting Plants municipal owner municipal plants MUNICIPAL PUBLIC SERVICE MUNICIPAL TRADE National Civic Federation ness nicipal Ohio operation Oscar Lewis paid pany PHILADELPHIA GAS private company profit public ownership PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATIONS PUBLIC UTILITIES rates result Socialism socialist street railway taxes Taxpayers Tele telephone tion town Tramways vote
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Сторінка 193 - Company or of the public. (7) The applicant has not proved that the existing companies are not properly consenting the public interest and convenience and that it would be to the advantage of the community to have a new company authorized to enter the field. (8) If a competing company were allowed to begin operation, it is not likely that it would continue to operate independently for any considerable period. (9) Competition would cause inconvenience and expense to the public, would cause...
Сторінка 45 - The creation of municipal corporations, and the conferring upon them of certain powers and subjecting them to corresponding duties, does not deprive the legislature of the State of that complete control over their citizens which was before possessed.
Сторінка 116 - THEY. Why don't they keep the streets a little cleaner? You ask with deep annoyance not undue; Why don't they keep the parks a little greener? (Did you ever stop to think that "they" means you?) How long will they permit this graft and stealing? Why don't they see the courts are clean and true? Why will they wink at crooked public dealing? (Did you ever stop to think that "they" means you?) Why don't they stop this miserable child labor?
Сторінка 47 - What there is here of great institutions of learning, of churches, of great commercial institutions, lines of communication, etc., almost always owes its existence, not to official authority, but to the spontaneous co-operation of private citizens. Here you witness the productiveness of freedom. You see a magnificent church — a voluntary association of private persons has founded it; an orphan asylum built of marble — a wealthy citizen has erected it; a university — some rich men have left...
Сторінка 129 - The economy of municipal operation and control has not yet been proven in this country— only two of the first ten cities, Chicago and Detroit, have attempted it. The experience of these two cities is not such as to warrant the statement that a municipal plant would be more economical than contract lighting. "In the opinion of the committee the conditions at the present time are...
Сторінка 148 - ... the control can best be exercised by preventing the growth of abuses, rather than merely by trying to destroy them when they have already grown. In the highest sense of the word this movement for thorough control of the business use of this great wealth is conservative. We are trying to steer a safe middle course, which alone can save us from a plutocratic class government on the one hand, or a socialistic class government on the other, either of which would be fraught with disaster to our free...
Сторінка 192 - (2) It is probable that the bonds already issued are illegal and there is grave doubt of the legality of the stock, neither issue having been approved by the Commission of Gas and Electricity. "(3) It is doubtful whether the title of the Long Acre company to the franchise which it claims is perfect.
Сторінка 190 - To provide and maintain these additional services and mains means more frequent opening of the streets, more injury to pavements and ultimately more expense to the taxpayers — conditions which the public has been urging should be removed or reduced and not increased. Competition also Involves duplication of generating plants and substations. Each company must provide sufficient plant not merely to supply the peak of the load but to meet any accident which may occur. Machinery must at all times...
Сторінка 105 - The securities representing its properties are selling at prices that range from 30% to 60% lower than were obtained for them one year ago. The money needed to keep business going is harder to get today than was any sum, however great, for the extension and development of business one year ago, and the questions, What is the matter? How has this come about? Who is responsible? are on everybody's tongue. The answers that are so generously provided seem to me very wide of the mark. Usually they involve...
Сторінка 169 - Equality of reward,—no, unless there is also equality of service. If the service is equal, let the reward be equal, but let the reward depend on the service. And mankind being composed as it is, there will be inequality of service for a long time to come, no matter how great the equality of opportunity may be, and just so long as there is inequality of service it is eminently desirable that there should be inequality of reward.