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Excerpt from The Finances of Cleveland A critical study of the financial and administrative his tory of a city during the whole period of its existence should also throw some light on its probable success in any attempt to extend the municipal ownership and operation of public utilities. This problem is no longer to be re garded as a theoretic one; it is now to be decided on grounds of practical expediency, and the question of expediency is very largely a financial one. Into it also enter the factors of public vigilance and the selection for office of men: who have the requisite expert ability and honesty of purpose to man age great business enterprises. Municipal finance should, therefore, at the present time be studied with an eye to the possibility of successful municipal ownership of street rail ways, lighting plan-ts, etc. To pass over entirely the whole subject of the taxing system, which, in Ohio as in many other commonwealths. 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.
