Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1907 — Bryce on Public Ownership. [ARTICLE]

Bryce on Public Ownership.

In speaking at the dinner of the Chi* cago Commercial Club, James Bryce, the British ambassador, discussed at some length the functions of modern cities, placing them in three distinct classes. One class, he said, included those functions WHICH are Virai -iuj tiAmspeusatfle

because the individual citizen cannot ex-* ereise them for himself, giving the maintenance of public safety, or police department. ns an instance. The second class was that cf functions which might be left to individuals or large corporations* such as are in England called public companies. These- would include the matters of water, light, transportation, markets and public education. In the third class, Mr. Bryce put matters which might or might not be given to a public local authority, such as lodging houses, baths, etc., and it was his opinion that where there is a monopoly it is strongly urged in England that the profits and increased value which the growth of a city gives to such a monopoly ought to belong to the public.”