History and government of the United States, for evening schools . somuch more complicated in cities than in towns that the largecities must undertake many things not required of large cities must have streets paved with stone, brick, orasphalt, and sewers carrying off the waste of households andfactories. They must have a large police force. They needsuch public buildings as city halls, hospitals, fire houses,libraries, and great schoolhouses. Complexity of City Government. — The departments to beadministered by a modern city government are so numerousas to make a business quite as
History and government of the United States, for evening schools . somuch more complicated in cities than in towns that the largecities must undertake many things not required of large cities must have streets paved with stone, brick, orasphalt, and sewers carrying off the waste of households andfactories. They must have a large police force. They needsuch public buildings as city halls, hospitals, fire houses,libraries, and great schoolhouses. Complexity of City Government. — The departments to beadministered by a modern city government are so numerousas to make a business quite as complicated as that of thegreatest commercial enterprises. Large cities raise by taxes 66 OUR CIVIL GOVERNMENT many millions of dollars a year, all of which should be ex-pended economically and wisely. The city has hundreds andeven thousands of employees, such as school teachers, firemen,and policemen; and these employees range in ability from thecommon unskilled laborer to the chief of police, the expert cityengineer, the school superintendent, and the Public Library, Boston Functions of City Government. — The city touches the lifeof the individual American at many points. It educates himin the public schools; if he is poor, it cares for him in sick-ness ; it protects him in his person and property; it looks outfor his health by the various resources of the health depart-ment and by city ordinances relating to garbage, sewers, andpublic nuisances; it licenses the drivers of vehicles that trans-port him and his goods; it maintains firemen and fire apparatusto protect his home from destruction by fire; it lends himbooks at the public library; and if he dies penniless, it burieshim decently in the public grounds of the cemetery. OUR CIVIL GOVERNMENT 67 76. State Government. — Of all the governments to which theindividual citizen is subject, the most important and the mostextensive in the range of its jurisdiction is that of the State,which makes nine out of ten of t
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