A municipal lighting plant was planned at this time and municipal markets. The unified press was against this administration, which taking all in all, it would not be fair to regard as a comprehensive example of Socialism, though I may well add that during it taxes were not raised. At that time Milwaukee had the lowest tax rate of any large American city. CHAPTER XXXI TOLEDO--THE "GOLDEN RULE" CITY "_One of the common people (as Lincoln once humorously said) God must have loved because he made so many._"--BRAND WHITLOCK. Among the things that I found in the "Golden Rule City" of Toledo were these: Four National banks, fourteen State banks, savings banks and trust companies, whose combined resources were over sixty millions. A splendid McKinley Monument built by popular subscription which was completed in one day. A three hundred and fifty thousand dollar Y. M. C. A. A two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollar Y. W. C. A. A one hundred thousand dollar Newsboys' Building. (How essential is the conservation of the Newsboy! When he is no longer small enough to be a newsboy and must do the work of an able-bodied man, what then?) A four hundred thousand dollar Marble Art Museum. (The cost given does not include the value of the collection.) Finest Municipal golf course in the world. A Municipal Zoölogical Garden which is a wonder, the animals being housed, fed and sheltered at great cost. Toledo has also an old ramshackle of a building, which ought to be condemned, called again by that pretty name which has become so popular with federated charities, "The Wayfarer's Lodge." I made one attempt to stop there but it was closed. Its closing hour was eight-thirty P. M. But I caught its spirit, which was a little worse than the Milwaukee Rescue Mission to the homeless man, when I was politely, or rather impolitely, given to understand that in that most bitter cold weather even, I was not welcome to warm myself by the old stove. I was told by a starving boy that the food given for one and a half or two hours' work was the usual three different concoctions of water, and to look at the old inadequate den from the exterior was enough. This wretched place accommodates only fifty men, when every night during that bitter winter there were from three to five hundred on the streets of Toledo who had no place to lay their heads. Just across the Maumee river, in East Toledo, is an old frame police station where I found a hundred and twenty-five men trying to sleep nightly on the floor. A little way from there, fifty were sleeping on the floor of a Mission, with newspapers for beds. Each lodger was taxed five cents for that privilege.