Newburyport And City Government An Address Delivered At the Celebration of the
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Perhaps city government is not, on the whole, so black as it is painted. The complaints against it are ex- aggerated in the heat of party warfare, or by the criticism of theorists who forget that perfection cannot be reached in the actual running of governmental machinery. Making due allowance for all this, there are substantial grounds of dissatisfaction, which challenge the attention of all students of public affairs who realize how much CITY CHARTER OF NEWBURYPORT I7 more closely the interes...ts of the average citizen are bound up with the local than with the general govern- ment, in a country where the municipality absorbs more than four-fifths of all the direct taxes, and municipal debts are ten times greater than all other public obliga- tions. And it must not be forgotten that the sight of open misgovernment is demoralizing. If tolerated, it will corrupt the springs of public virtue. Unless the people change the character of the government for the better the government will change the character of the people for the worse.
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