...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...

...Prof. Bryce declares, and 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...

...expensive, the most inefficient, and the most corrupt." And Mr. Bryce says: "There is no denying the fact that the government of cities is the one conspicuous failure of the United States." There is perhaps no severer commentary on our city governments than the fact that they are being obliged...

...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...

...statesmen everywhere. So able and impartial an observer as Mr. Bryce has found it necessary to say, "There is no denying that the government of cities...the one conspicuous failure of the United States." Nor is this failure of minor importance. When our constitution was framed, there were but thirteen...

...you hold the power itself. Mr. Bryce, in his " American Commonwealth," pens this ominous sentence: "There is no denying that the government of cities...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...

...for one thing, we are less successful than our European neighbors. And Professor Bryce has said that there is no denying that the government of cities...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...

...cluster about them. There can be little doubt that in the past at least, as Mr. Bryce said in 1 888, " the government of cities is the one conspicuous failure of the United States." While in the late Middle Ages the cities of Europe were nurseries of corporate freedom and of the resistance...

...diminishing ratio. With this change we are compelled to face the fact, as stated by Mr. Bryce, that "there is no denying that the government of cities...the one conspicuous failure of the United States." Democracy has as yet never been able to do much more than repeat European methods and apply monarchical...

...vitiated that system, that its failure has become notorious. "There is no denying," says Mr. Bryce, "that the government of cities is the one conspicuous failure of the United States." Mr. Andrew D. White, who has enjoyed exceptional opportunities of observation, says: "Without the slightest...