Let us approach the question ina practical way. How is money actually spent? Who are the the spenders? So far as national purposes are concerned, the tendency is to place the spending power more and more jin the hands of the Government, and, for local wants, such as sanitation, the supply of water and the like, in the hands of the Municipality.
GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE, In the suffrage the electors have an efficient check on the spending of their money, and so long as Government and Municipal expenditure is confined to national and Jocal purposes, there is little danger of fraud or malversation escaping detection. If the Socialists have their way, the ing powers of both Government and Muni cipality are likely to be largely increased. Let us hope they will be disappointed. most matters which involve a close attention to details in the mass, it is more than doubtful if either Government or Municipality, in spite of their extensive borrowing powers, would prove either so efficient or 80 economical as individual or associated enterprises. It certainly does not look like the latter being superseded just yet.
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