Municipal and Private Operation of Public Utilities: Report to the National Civic Federation Commission on Public Ownership and Operation, Part 1, Volume 1National civic federation, 1907 - Municipal ownership |
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Page 26 - are: First—Public utilities, whether in public or in private hands, are best conducted under a system of legalized and regulated monopoly. Second—Public utilities in which the sanitary motive largely enters should be operated by the public. Third—The success of municipal operation of public
Page 47 - has during the whole of the said twelve months resided in the borough or within seven miles thereof, has been rated in respect of the qualifying property to all poor rates made during those twelve months and
Page 28 - "We have come to the conclusion that municipal ownership of public utilities should not be extended to revenue-producing industries which do not involve the public health, the public safety, public transportation, or the permanent occupation of public streets or grounds, and that municipal operation should not be solely for profit." This sentence is so drawn that to a casual reader it
Page 26 - Committee takes no position on the question of the general expediency of either private or public ownership. The question must be solved by each municipality in the light of local conditions. What may be possible in one locality may not be in another. In some cities the companies may so serve the public as to create no dissatisfaction and nothing might be gained by
Page 134 - Of the 50 largest cities in the United States, 21 originally built and now own their water works, 20 have changed from private to public ownership, and only 9 are now dependent on private companies for their water supply. Some of the remaining
Page 26 - popular vote under reasonable regulation. Sixth—Private companies operating public utilities should be subject to public regulation and examination under a system of uniform records and accounts and of full publicity.
Page 107 - tools of the private corporations as it is a ring of municipal politicians. To pick out the politics of the gas works and not to see that it is bound up with the politics of the private corporations would be a perverse and one-sided method of investigation.
Page 130 - The fundamental test of any institution, method or service must be its effect upon the public good, its relation to morals, manhood, government, civilization and progress: and in applying this vital test the principal emphasis must be placed, not upon
Page 39 - that whatever may be the efficiency or inefficiency of American municipal government the city cannot escape from the necessity of controlling in some effective manner the management of its public utilities.
Page 134 - From 1800 to 1900 public water works in the United States developed in round numbers from 6 per cent, to 60 per cent, of the whole number.