2. What do you regard as the best features of town government?
3. Is there any tendency anywhere to divide towns into smaller towns? If it exists, illustrate and explain it.
4. Is there any tendency anywhere to unite towns into larger towns or into cities? If it exists, illustrate and explain it.
5. In every town-meeting there are leaders,—usually men of character, ability, and means. Do you understand that these men practically have their own way in town affairs,—that the voters as a whole do but little more than fall in with the wishes and plans of their leaders? Or is there considerable independence in thought and action on the side of the voters?
6. Can a town do what it pleases, or is it limited in its action? If limited, by whom or by what is it restricted, and where are the restrictions recorded? (Consult the Statutes.)
7. Why should the majority rule in town-meeting? Suggest, if possible, a better way.
8. Is it, on the whole, wise that the vote of the poor man shall count as much as that of the rich, the vote of the ignorant as much as that of the intelligent, the vote of the unprincipled as much as that of the high-toned?
9. Have the poor, the ignorant, or the unprincipled any interests to be regarded in government?
10. Is the single vote a man casts the full measure of his influence and power in the town-meeting?
11. What are the objections to a suffrage restricted by property and intellectual qualifications? To a suffrage unrestricted by such qualifications?