This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1915 Excerpt: ... NOTES AND REFERENCES i Compare Wilcox's The American City, pp. 313, 314; Howe's The City, the Hope of Democracy, pp. 160, 164, 170; Eowe's Problems of City Government, pp. 121, 122; Eaton's The Government of Municipalities, pp. 1315, 27; Parson's The City for the People, pp. 405-409; Oberholtzer's The Progress of Home Rule in Cities in the Chicago Conference for Good City Government (1904), pp. 168, 169; Goodnow's Municipal Government, pp. 94, 95; Deming's Government of American Cities, pp. 91, 92; Goodnow's Municipal Home Rule, pp. 8, 9; Wilcox's The Municipal Program in the Chicago Conference for Good City Government (1904), p. 183; Binkerd's Home Rule For Cities, an address before the Annual Conference of Mayors at Utica, New York, in 1912, pp. 5, 6. 2Beach's Public Corporations, Vol. I, Sec. 6. s See Hanson vs. City of Creseo, 132 Iowa 533, at 537-540; Wells vs. Stomback, 59 Iowa 376; Township of West Bend vs. Munch, 52 Iowa 132; and Dillon's Municipal Corporations (fifth edition), Vol. I, pp. 58, 59, 60, 62, 63, 67, 68. Wilcox's The American City, pp. 313, 314. B Doming's Government of American Cities, p. 96; Munro's The Government of American Cities, pp. 61, 62. 6 The writer is using self-government here in the sense in which he has defined it in the text, that is, in the sense of local autonomy. This distinction should be carefully noted or the paragraph may be confusing. 7 See the discussion in Goodnow 's The Place of the Council and of the Mayor in the Organization of Municipal Government in the Indianapolis Conference for Good City Government (1898), pp. 71-73. s Munro's The Government of American Cities, pp. 377-380; Goodnow's Municipal Home Rule, pp. 5, 6. 9 Oberholtzer's Home Rule for our American Cities in the Annals of the American Academy o...