Excerpt from Chapters on Municipal Administration and Accounting
There is a growing appreciation of the fact that democracy, if successful, must be informed. The officer is asked not only to be true to his trust, but also to lay before the citizen a full and prompt account of all matters concerning which the public has a right to know. Efficiency as well as fidelity is demanded of him who is given public position and public honors.
Four fundamental principles of government have been established as a result of experience.
1. Effective cooperation must be based on intelligence.
2. Officers, whether democratic or autocratic, can exercise intelligent direction over affairs only when fully apprised of the business to be administered.
3. Organized democracy can be made effective only so long and so far as it provides the means of regularly and currently bringing before its citizens the facts necessary to the exercise of the best judgment with respect to the fidelity and efficiency of those in positions of trust.
4. When the public may have the same information, concerning public affairs that each member has concerning his private affairs there is no cooperative activity required for the highest welfare of a community that may not only be undertaken with advantage to the people but with honor to the trusted corporate servants.
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