Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1899-10-27
COILS OF THE TRUST
Have In Their Embrace the Taxpav.
crS of the Blue Grass State.
REPUBLICANS RESPONSIBLE.
Chinn school Book 1911 Would Have
Rescued Kentucky From the
Grasp OF the American
Book Company.

The school book bill which was de-
featsd in the last legislature by the
solid Republican vote was intended 10
rescue Kentucky frcm the coils of the
American Book company, of which
Judge Beckner wrote this few months
ago:
THE Standard Oil company is
the only trust in the world that
equals the American Book company
in the amount Of capital invested
and the unscrupulousnes of the
methods employed to control, with
cut a rival, the business in which
it is engaged"
Now Judge Beckner is found on the
stump denouncing the Democrats who
endeavored to secure the passage of
the Chinn school bill. One unfotu-
nate characteristic Of the Judge is, that
he fails to find anything good in what
any other person attempts to do for the
school children OF the sSate In his
speech he says that the bill does not
1SiuIl IhC NSLlf.lsStcHSlo WHO are 10
select the school books to have any
special qualifications for that wosiA In
this he is mistaken. The bill says the
commissioner
Shall be chosen with special refer
ence to their scholarly and busjsess
qualifications, one member to be
chosen from each appellate district and
not more than three of them to belong
to the same political party"
The judge says the present law Is all
right because he wrote 1t and put in
provision which requires each publish
err who furnishes books for any county
In the state to give bond in the sum
of 1000 that he will sell his books as
cheaply in Kentucky as in another
state. Such provision is found in the
law, but for some reason sthaeepthor
OF the law failed to have \ <Yho
could sue on the bond II n BE-
violated, and to whom dr. n
covered should be paid
book trust Is not afraid .
as that. 1t is we'll know
DOCKS are sOlu III SJdleS "
law similar to the Chinn
to so per cent less thantio
are sold in Kentucky, auiI
ever heard ofthe Req
general, who n6ww22
suing on one--of
!-=ffch Judge Bscknt 40
vided for, but when Me Soi
value than blank sheets OF psI[ef.
at your school books and you kwifi tind 7
that they are furnished by th4Anieri-
can Book company, which JaS4 Rtck
ner so justly denounced on7la 3fewb
months ago. Compare the prf}s paid
here with the prices paid in Maizena,
and the maximum prices fixed by the
Chinn bill, and then determine by your
votes whether you will trust the Dem
ocratic party or the Republican party
to regulate the cost OF your school
books.
At Greensboro a few days ago Mr..
Taylor was shown a copy Of Montgom-
ery's History which sells for 6j cents !
in Indiana and for 81 in Kentucky,
and was asked to show If there was
any difference between the two books,
and he failed to refer to the matter in
his speech. The Republican orators
and their aiders can't meet the facts
which the Democrats present in their
fight against the book trust.
The Man Goebel.
II testimony is needed in support OF
the proposition that Goebel is the right
sort of man for governor 1t can be
found in abundance. He was Hardin's
second choice while Stone wanted
Goebel to get the nomination If he
couldn't get it for himself. John
Young Brown Saving himself always) |
was for Goebel first. He told Senator
Frazier of Shelby county that when
Goebel made man promise, the
man could go to sleep with absolute
assurance that the promise would be
kept to the very letter. On another
occasion Brown said Goebel can write
a better brief ON one page of paper
than must lawyers can write on 20
pages. Judge Pryor, one Of the ablest
and best men in the state, said when
friends tried to get him to run for gov
ernor: II am for Senator Goebel. |
know him, and therefore l am for
him. would rather see him governor
than be governor myself. Such a man
is needed in Kentucky today"