Public Comfort Stations;
An act through to build parks.
A municipal lighting plant was planned at this time and municipal markets. The unified press was against this administration, which taking all in all, it would not be fair to regard as a comprehensive example of Socialism, though I may well add that during it taxes were not raised. At that time Milwaukee had the lowest tax rate of any large American city.
CHAPTER XXXI
Toledo—The “Golden Rule” City
“One of the common people (as Lincoln once humorously said) God must have loved because he made so many.”—Brand Whitlock.
Among the things that I found in the “Golden Rule City” of Toledo were these:
Four National banks, fourteen State banks, savings banks and trust companies, whose combined resources were over sixty millions.
A splendid McKinley Monument built by popular subscription which was completed in one day.