The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-11-04
Vote Vote!! Vote II!

Every qualified elector in the United States has
a solemn obligation to perform Tuesday, November ).
1t is the obligation of democratic rights, the obligation
to protect the freedom which every good American
citizen cherishes the obligation to guard against in
roads of foreign agents and dictatorship
In this election paramount question ariseS-the
question of third term. There is no law against
third term for President of the United States The
subject has been debated during critical times in the
past, but have the people felt that would be
either safe or expedent set any individual up
indispensable man.
No matter how capable may be, third term
invites fourth term and fifth which naturally means
usurpatiOn of powers that belong the hands OF the
people, not in the hands of one
In the particular at hand, in this election of
1910 might feel that such power would be safe III
the hands of Mr. Roosevelt Perhaps it would, but that
is not the whole consideration. The big question is
What about the future?" What kind of will
fall heir to all the power would be giving MIR. Roose
welt by third term election
Every student of history knows that there have
been good monarchs who have done many credtable
things for their people, but monarches have not
dured Tyranny follows oligarchy then comes suf-
fering and mobocracy.
The big issue in this election is not a question of
party it is question of fundamental principle
in anticipation of future safety it is question of pop
ular judgment. AS matter of fact it SINNERS down
to the single question of whether not any OF
people like of the United States have the intel
lgence TO govern themselves.
A good many students of political science declare
that because of the fact that people do not intel
lgently anticipate the future they successfully
govern themselves. History has proven this conen-
ton far the past concerned, but
at point today where may prove that it does
yet apply in the United States of America
Intelligent business men, stock operators and spec
ulators, sell when the market is high To follow this
rule requires lot of courage but in the long
pays.
Today the New Deal stock is high, it is popular
and one man, Franklin d. Roosevelt, has made it so
1t good in 1882 it broke an alltime high in 1886
and it is still popular
The whole stock market during the POS was like
that Stocks scared year after year and as the rising
trend continued the patronage increased 1t seemed
as though everybody gambling in the stock mar
ket. People elected to buy what sounded good, they
plunged with reckless abandon they mortgaged their
homes and brought margin in a desperate gamble
for the more abundant life.
Then that dark day in 1929 when the mar
ket crashed and millions of people who had backed
their faith in continual rise lost everything Paper
fortunes wiped Men were left pennilcss
night. Some took their own lives Panic follow
ed Banks closed. Millions of men were thrown
out of employment and for eight years we have been
borrowing more and more money in frantic effort
check economic decline and get ourselves back
a firm footing
Our national debt approximates sixty billions OF
dollars The interest alone this debt totals
than the entire required to operate our gov
eminent few years ago.
Such condition cannot continue it is the warning
sign that New Deal stock is breaking BY all the laws
of economics and by the laws OF politics the New Deal
stock must break Such rising trend cannot possibly
continue.
The question now is whether we as strong ma
ton, are intelligent enough to recognize this danger
signal
Every should commend President Roosevelt
for what good he has accomplished and for his ideals
if not for some of his ideas Like Julius Caesar in the
days of the old Roman empire. he has been popular
leader, but to retain him in office and continue to add
to his individual powers, as the Romans added to
Caesars would be rashness at all in keeping with
the security of democracy.
Our vote in this election must be cast for the con
Stitution of the United States for the principle de-
mocratic government by the people and as safeguard
not much against Mr. Roosevelt perhaps as against
the man who might follow him and who might abuse
the power which Mr. Roosevelt would naturally &C