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Show u NEED HIGHER CIVIC STANDARDS CHICAGO is a great typical western American city, but Chicago is practically broke and the Governor of Illinois must call a special session of the legislature to save it from bankruptcy, bank-ruptcy, dishonor and defalcation. The city has forty governing bodies, commissions, boards, money-spending and tax-levying machines, official rat-holes rat-holes into which money is dropped and revenues wasted. What is true of Chicago is true of most state, county, city and school governments govern-ments in the West money is wrung from the taxpayers and spent wasteful-ly wasteful-ly by political instead of business methods. meth-ods. Public improvements suffer because be-cause municipal methods are distended, distend-ed, and there is a reason. In Chicago $500,000 went to lawyers, experts, in- i vestigators and appraisers on one boulevard. How long could a railroad or utility corporation exist and do business busi-ness under such methods? Is it not time the people demanded a better order or-der of things and a higher type of men in office ? Is it not a patriotic duty to demand that waste and extravagance cease in city, county and state. r |