The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-08-11
LEADERS AND RULERS.
How Some common Name. ana risle. can


How Some Common Names md Titles Came
to he Applied.
There are heaps of history in titles.
For instance, take that of the prince Of
Wales" This title Is always given to
the eldest son Of the ruler reigniug over
England, and it came in this way
Wales Is now part Of the Kingdom of
Great Britain, as Ireland and Scotland
are. But once for a long time Wales
was o separate kingdom. At. last the
English conquered 1t, and then after
that there were always plots and rebel
lions among the Welsh people. By and
by an English king went with hin queen
into Wales to see If the Welsh were i'll
treated, and if they were to try tp make
things easier and pleasanter for them.
The Welsh mobiles and leaders all came
together to meet their English king and
to complain to him.
But the king gave them no chance to
speak. He rose and told them he had
heard they wanted prince Of their own,
and that he meant to give them one-a
born Welshman and speaking np other
language.
Then. as the Welsh joyfully cheered as
loud as they could, he fetched out his
baby son, born the night before in the
Welsh aastle, and Of course the baby
could speak no other language" as he
was not able to speak at all. Ever since
the eldest son of the English royal fami-
| ly has been called the prince of Wales. y
That ruler deserved his own title "king,H
for king" is word that comes from
l II.
knowing man." l suppose The first
rulers-the heads or kings of small tribes
came to be SO by knowing more" by
being wiser" than the other men of the
tribe.
Gear" and kaiser" both came from
the Latin word caesar" the title of the
great conquering Roman rulers, whose
only law was their own will.
The car of Russia and the young
Kaiser William of Germany have much
more power over their subjects than the
queen Of England has over the people Of
England. Sultan" is another such title
and it comes from an Arabic word
which means absolute lord"
Grover Cieveland's title, president,
means one appointed to sit before o.
over others. 1t comes from the two
Latin words ''pra," which means "be
fore" and 'sideo," which means "to sit.
The title shows that the presidents bust
ness is to sit before or above the law
makers and carry ont and execute tn
laws they frame. This is why the presi
dent is sometimes called the .'chief ex
ecutive."
Captain means "head man" I
comes from the word "caput," whicl
means "the head" Colonel" come
from the same Latin root word as 'col
umn," and tho title no doubt rose from
the regimental practice of marching o
attacking in column, with their com
mander at the head.
As to the two titles democrat" an,
republican," when small boy hear
them he generally thinks of one or til
other Of those political parties as tn
people who are not of his fathers wa,
of thinking. 1t will do him no harm t
know exactly what each of these part,
titles really means
Democrat" comes from the Greel
word demos, which means the PEG
+ ple," and from "kratos," which mean
power" So democrat" ID one VIII
believes in the power or sovereignty o
, the people, each acting as nearly as ma.
be for himself.
Republican" comes from the Latii
words res publica," which mean $50,
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