Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Our Home City
The west is growing fast, and there is room for our new town, and an excellent chance for growth. Finer villages, towns, and cities than any on the map will yet be built in the United States. This does not mean larger.
While still keeping close to practical enactments we may yet take the best from other cities in the way of good government. It is easier to build a new house than to remodel an old one; and 'better to start out living under good laws than to struggle for their introduction afterwards.
There is plenty of unknown ability to design and build a model municipality. Engineers, architects, landscape men, electricians - all the wonder workers who have given us of their best in many fields can join in this city, and not only make a career for themselves, but a contribution to American progress. We do not need the old established men. They would charge us two dollars for doing the work, and three for their reputation. Those with a living to make, men and women in search of a new home, will be our chosen ones. One of the essential beliefs of a real democracy is that there is always plenty Of un discovered talent ready to do any kind of work about as well as those who are already famous.
We have seer) many beautiful expositions since the best one at Chicago. There have been Buffalo, Omaha, St. Louis, Portland, Jamestown, Seattle, and soon there will be one at San Francisco; but their beauties have been only for a season. Our architects and engineers can design a miniature exposition that will be permanent, and that will ever grow better looking. By planning in advance each new feature can be added when the time comes, when the money is ready, when the people say, Yes.
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