The Opportunity of Chicago to Become a Great City, 1901-1903

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Excerpt from The Opportunity of Chicago to Become a Great City, 1901-1903: A Discussion of the Traction QuestionThe proper solution of this problem will contribute enormously toward the solution of all other similar problems. It will in so far teach the corporations once for all that their only hope of doing business with the city is to offer adequate and honest service for a rea sonable price. It will turn their attention from corrupt deals with political managers to an honest attempt to give the public the very best service for the very low est price, and thus transfer this whole branch of mod ern enterprise from politics, where it should not be, to business, where it belongs.The gas question, the electric lighting question, and every other similar problem will enter a new and higher phase if this street car question is correctly solved. Nay, an entirely new era will be opened in every other branch of public administration-the instant it is made plain by our method of solving this problem and by the results we may obtain, that the public service corporation has been retired from the field of illegitimate politics.No other great American city, and but few foreign cities of equal size, have had any such opportunity as has come to Chicago. Will it prove equal to the occasion?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.