Selected Articles on Municipal Ownership (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Selected Articles on Municipal Ownership Resolved, That municipalities in the United States should own and operate plants for supplying light, water, and transportation. Introduction I. The question is important. A. Transportation is inseparably connected with questions of congestion of population, slums, and tenements, and water and light concern intimately the health and comfort of the people and the safety of the community. B. Stupendous financial interests are involved. C. A vast majority of every community is directly concerned. II. It is generally granted. A. That there are three methods by which municipalities may deal with natural monopolies. 1. They may grant private companies franchises to build and operate plants. 2. They may build or purchase plants and lease them to private companies for operation. 3. They may own and operate the plants themselves. B. In American municipalities the first method is almost universal in the case of street railways and most common in the case of water and lighting plants. C. The question is whether the last method is preferable to the others. III. The solution of the question seems to present four main issues. A. Is the ownership and operation of light, water, and transportation plants a municipal function? 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.
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