 | Law - 1899 - 710 pages
...least interesting to lawyers. One on New York and Tammany is a commentary on Dr. Bryce's statement that " the government of cities is the one conspicuous failure of the United L States." Another article contains an analysis of the occupations of the 152 members of the Belgian... | |
 | New England - 1894 - 808 pages
...thoughtful students of municipal politics in America regretfully repeat, that "there is no denying that the government of cities is the one conspicuous failure of the United States ! " III. HOW THE TALENT MAY BE MADE PRODUCTIVE. THERE are those, even in our own country, who also... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - Political corruption - 1888 - 786 pages
...or (as in New York) to malversation on the part of the municipal authorities.1 There is no denying that the government of cities is the one conspicuous failure of the United States. The deficiencies of the National government tell but little for evil on the welfare of the people.... | |
 | Edward Jewitt Wheeler - Prohibition - 1889 - 240 pages
...Thefe is no denying," says Prof. Bryce in his new and valuable work " The American Commonwealth," " that the government of " cities is the one conspicuous failure of the United " States." Yet municipal government has come to be the most important part of American Government. The massing... | |
 | Brooklyn Ethical Association - Civilization - 1890 - 444 pages
...So able and impartial an observer as Mr. Bryce has found it necessary to say, "There is no denying that the government of cities is the one conspicuous failure of the United States." Nor is this failure of minor importance. When our constitution was framed, there were but thirteen... | |
 | Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1890 - 768 pages
...itself. Mr. Bryce, in his " American Commonwealth," pens this ominous sentence: "There is no denying that the government of cities is the one conspicuous failure of the United States." I commend that to you, and those you represent, for consideration. It is within the power of your class... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1891 - 776 pages
...cities. As that keen-sighted and philosophic observer Professor Bryce has said : " There is no denying that the government of cities is the one conspicuous failure of the United States. The deficiencies of the National government tell but little for evil on the welfare of the people.... | |
 | Henry Elsworth Gregory - Fourth of July celebrations - 1891 - 20 pages
...less successful than our European neighbors. And Professor Bryce has said that there is no denying that the government of cities is the one conspicuous failure of the United States. In the progress of the century nothing, perhaps, is more remarkable and striking than the rise and... | |
 | Church and the world - 1891 - 530 pages
...causes and what the cure ? Prof. Bryce in the "American Commonwealth," says: " There is no denying that the government of cities is the one conspicuous failure of the United States. The deficiencies of the National Government tell but little for evil on the welfare of the people.... | |
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There is no denying that the government of cities is the one conspicuous failure of the United States. 
