Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Pittsburgh College Bulletin, 1909-1910, Vol. 16
It is not for me to analyze or discuss in all its details the complex system of a city's government, either in the municipal powers given it by its charter or the multiplied works, establishments and institutions, which it is supposed to maintain for the welfare and protection of its citizens. Our instinct tells us what are the necessary factors or ingredients of a successful government as well as its essential conditions. It tells us also what are the necessary qualities of a good Administration, whether the latter be regarded in the Executive or in the Legislative body, responsible for our laws or ordinances and their execution. But the important part is that we who are about to enter upon the arena of active life should not fear to interest ourselves in our local government. We should do so the more readily, because we have imbibed the correct principles of individual and social morality - because we have been taught, not merely the science and theory, but especially the great source and practical characteristic, of good government, namely, the upright life and conduct of the citizen in public as in private. With this good foundation - with a pride in the greatness of his city or community - with the ambition to promote its progress, and to remedy its evils - and with the unchanging, immovable lever of moral principles the young man of to-day, the young man of education especially, cannot fail, in learning to know the working of his local government, to find a pleasure as well as a duty in the support of its authority and of its interests. 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.
