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Best general references: Popular Scientific Monthly, xxx, 296, 520 (Jan., Feb., 1887); No. Am. Rev., vol. 137, 218 (Sept., 1883); A. D. White in Forum, x, 357 (Nov., 1890); C. W. Eliot in Forum, xii, 153 (Oct., 1891); A. P. Wilder, Municipal Reform...
...Experience shows that those cities which have a property qualification are better governed than those which have an unrestricted suffrage. Nation, xxxiv, 245, 267 (Mar. 23, 30, 1882); Shaw: Municipal Government in Great Britain, 45, 77; New Review, 11, 74, 499 (July, Nov., 1894); Forum, 17, 659 (Aug., 1894). - (a) Municipal government in the United States is extravagant, inefficient and corrupt. - (b) European cities, having property qualification are economically and efficiently governed...
Best general references: Bryce, American Commonwealth, I, chs. 51, 52; H. C. Adams, Public Debts, 343-375; A. P. Wilder, The Municipal Problem; Johns Hopkins Studies, extra vol. II, 264-295; Joseph Chamberlain in Forum, XIV, 267; Report of National Conference for Good City Government, 1894; Bibliographies of Municipal Government in preceding report, and in Providence Public Library Bulletin...
...Finance, 303-316; F. W. Taussig, The Silver Situation in the U. S.; J. L. Laughlin, The History of Bimetallism in the U. S., chaps. 13-14; Nation, vol. 56, pp. 96, 432, 466, 448, vol. 57, pp. 22, 61, 94-95, 222, vol. 58, pp. 266, 463; Forum...
...Increased use of gold in the arts: Suess, 100-101. - (f) Present suspicion of silver unjustifiable. - (1) Silver has not depreciated, but gold has appreciated: International Monetary Conference of 1892, p. 54; British Monetary Commission of 1887-88. - (2) No danger of a flood of silver: Suess, 51; Forum XV, 67 (Mar. 1893); Pol. Sci. Q. VIII...