Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1916-09-15
WHY !?

The Signal is not a partisan
paper. 1t is born of the people
/ 5 editor wants what's best for
all. No pie counter moves us
We are no office seeker and have
no fsvors to ask, whether it be
the election of Mr. Hughes OF
the reelection of President Viii
son. But as an American citizen,
dee; ly concerned in the welfare
of the country, it is our desire to
fairly and truthfully discuss The
facts of the present cam oaign
The Republicans were in power
for forty years. Then why did
the people put them out q? There
must be a reason for it and let us
as fair minded men, see6 to find
the cause. Not in passion, but
in sober, serious thought, let US
search for the auswer.
By reason of a long continued
control, the publicsn leaders
had fixed illusion that they were
like the kind, ."could do no wrong"
that the people would permit
them to do as thew desire. Such
leaders as Pratt and Quay. Pen
rose and Aldrich, Foraker and
Depew, Reed and Cannon men
who served special interests and
not the country It large who
PLAYED TO the hand of Wall Street
bankers who needed not the
farmers, because they had no COM
mercial credit; who paid no at
tention 10 the old, dilapidated,
time worn and out-of date nation
al banking laws. Wall Street
did not want them changed and
hence the political guides touched
them not. Every time an election
would come the politicians the
holders of office and the seekers
thereof would raise the cry of the
empty dinner pail. the withdraw
ing of the hre from every factory
The bankers and special privileg-
ed men would flood the country
with money to influence the voters
with the result that the witch
dogs of special interests would be
restored to power. But the
people arose four years ago. The
cry of the empty dinner pail has
no weight. The factory fires be-
ing drawn if the Democrats woI
had no terror. The American
people have grown wise. They
found that such alarms were used
to serve the officer holders and
Office seekers. They even discov
cred the real source of the corrupt
ing influence st the ballot box As
a result, the people decided to
change and change they did. The
Democrats have been in power
four years and during that time
they have enacted more progress
i've legislation OH behalf of the
men, women and children of this
land than the Republicans did
during the whole fortv years of
control. Where is the empty din
der pail of which YOU heard so
much What factory has shut
down because peaceloving Wood
roe Wilson was elected President?
The earnings Of the laboring men
OF America for the last three
and one-half years exceed by
three billions dollars their earning
under the four years of Taft's ad
ministration. The savings of the
people, deposited in the banks
throughout the country, amount
to six billion dollars more than
was deposited during the term
of President Taft. Labor was
never so richly compensated;
homes were never so happy. Our
people are wading ''chin deep" in
prosperity. The politicians will
harangue the voters. Special in
terests will put in her cunning and
corrupting hand and with big
corporations will float money like
water to affect the result but the
sturdy, self owning American
voter will do his own thinking
and vote for Woodrow Wilson
and continue peace and prosper
ity.