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Show TOWN AM) CITV GOVERNMENT. Mr. Kdwin A. C'i hlky in Frank Lt s-Hi's s-Hi's Weekly, discuss ei "Democracy and City Governrnent." He holds that gov-orntnont gov-orntnont In' small towns lius licrn highly high-ly democratic und successful iu this country, while government in the large cities has beeh a general failure, lie-cause lie-cause while democratic in name it is not so in tai l . Mr. Cl'iM.KY points out that the hrsi exampleoof municipal government in the United Stales has liecu lurnisheil by the old fashioueil N'ew Kngland town meeting, which was a true democracy because all the people assembled together to-gether at ltetd limes and devised measures and appointed or elected officers offi-cers to execute the popular will thus expressed. The N'ew England town was early a distinct political unit, and tlill exists today as a peculiar feature if New England civilization, as seen not only in local government hut iu the publication of election returns, when one reads that returns from twenty-seven twenty-seven towns show that Colonel Smith leads Colonel Hrown liy so many votes. Town government, alter the New Kng-land Kng-land idea, is the old democracy that has been shown to have existed long before the kings and barons of the middle ages had developed their feudal systems. As towns grew into cities the pure democratic government has declined before tho advance of makeshifts and expedients. The people have decreased and the politicians and demagogues SS have increased. When a towu becomes a city of thousands, it cannot well be governed by a town meeting, and the larger the city the more impractical Iocs this come to bo regarded. Tho city's affairs aro then left to be attended to by proxy and representation, and here the rings and roosters lind their opportunity. Some niedi.'eval cities were Independent sovereignties ruled by oligarchies of rich merchants. Many cities in Amorics arc ruled by oligat-, oligat-, chics also, but tho oligarchies aro not composed of merchants, but of politicians poli-ticians and leeches. They arc Tammany halls, whose members are plunderers living off their wits and the indifference of the patient tax payer. Tho evolution of the town into the large city diminishes the interest of the individual citizen in its governmental affairs, but il ought not to do so. The evils of city government aro duo to the sufferance of the citizens in permitting designing men lo feed on them. Tho Hl government of cities is of necessity by jc representative democracy, but there J0. arc always honest men who can be en- trusted with municipal affairs, if I ra tho people would determine that such ! and only such men should represent ; B |