Foxy Government

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Excerpt from Foxy Government: Or, Fallacies of the Des Moines Plan A preface to a book is like a man introducing himself - an awkward and generally a useless piece of business. A prologue to a promised epic might serve the purpose of an advertisement, but in this instance would be distasteful. The writer is not seeking notoriety, he is no defeated office-seeker nor aspirant for any political office, and writes from a sense of duty only, that the unwary may evade the man pitfalls in that form of municipal government known as the Des Moines plan. Our thought today is hurry and short cuts. We think initiative, recall, referendum and commission government is what we want. Novelty and changes are expected and we want them right now with no thought of the dangers inherent in them. Our consideration of modes and means are hasty and erratic. We announce immediate cures for the body politic and the public jumps at the panacea. The result is mistake after mistake, all of them costly. No attempt is made to cover the field strewn with blunders, failures and political chicanery where this new government has been set in motion: only brief mention has been made with the hope that what has been humbly said may throw a small ray of light on this prodigy, and that such information will meet with a reception at the hands of the public, sufficient to arouse the people to a realization of what foisting upon them such government means. In what has been said nothing is intended to harm or wound the feelings of any city official or other person. It is the sophistry of this style of government and the pernicious methods its operation permits to which attention is directed. Whatever visionary speculations are advanced by advocates of commission government, there is nothing to verify the predictions. Wherever the scheme is in operation there is found instead of political freedom, aristocracy and the very climax of boss rule. If but a small portion of American citizens about to become disfranchised by this plan of government, who delegate their brains to the keeping of three incompetents, and who are willing to be taxed without a voice in conducting the affairs of their city will peruse this brief synopsis of the so-called Des loines Plan, it will be ample appreciation for the effort undertaken. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.