Fifty-Fourth Annual Report of the Municipal Government of the City of Franklin

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fifty-Fourth Annual Report of the Municipal Government of the City of Franklin: For the Financial Year 1948 Democracy is Government by the people. It is an extremely healthy sign that tonight we, the people, are here in greater numbers than ever before in the history of this community. Many of us are recently home from the battle fields of Europe and Asia. None will forget the comrades who can never return. There is only one memorial which we who are here can erect and maintain worthy of the sacrifice of they who fought and died for Democracy. Our solemn obligation is to see that such a form of Government flourishes healthy and strong, a triumphant proof to all the world that they have not died in vain. The common people alone have the power to maintain a true Democracy, for unless they, you and I, participate there is no government by the people. When we lose interest the door is left open for special interests and the grafter, and when these vultures have picked the carcass clean, the Communist and Fascists remain to squabble over the bleaching bones. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.