Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-06-07
sAUTOCRACY 10 UNDO AUTOCRACY FOR SELF. RULE.


Unthinking people complain because as one agency OF
the people investing prs ss
our national have our executive
take of railways and other of
ira S as military necessity to take our food sup
ways to do Of the very things we blame the Kaiser for
doing,
the surface and erentate between auocrat claiming to
do things by divine right even in opposition to the popular
dsnt Of the United States arbitrary power
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our national destines tomorrow he be cut down by the
nv The has sysn str
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S Sra M Karl has Just drawn his offending
calling together for first time in years the Rechsra the
don he has promised various concessions the
f 5 Of the republican element and at this particular
their 1 revolutionary! sst2y brethren in Russia;
makes impossible for the executive department to declare
M es % 1f conduct military operations IN actual hos
for
sv ha e any president can spend it in waTar
ing body. ''f' =" Vic 'A"''"""'
While world peace would unquestonably be promoted
by the sefre of all peoples through republican form
OF democracy must all recognize the fact
sena to the highest efficiency Of nation in general
cannot waste precious time in taking popular referendum
ing the policies he is to pursue the plan Of campaign he
a aaop and carry out Yet some good Americans had
trying to take Richmond The factors surprise and u-
pr the to meet certain and host
exercise for the tme-being autocratic power
ruler who csn x a 10 the M %as
Of great people has tremendous advantage
lated for the of preventing him from becom
reasonably hope overcome autocracy assuming
to dominate people by divine authority and the inherent
tocracy in and temporarily invest
tive DEPARTMENT with highly centralized powers.
We may not only use temporary autocracy in
country overthrow the long established auocracy of the
% Evrons but we % also pit sgn;
solution of the house of Romanofs Whatever hap
Rs a rest no Gar will ever all
the wall for autocracy Mtte Europa empire in the
either as an nsidous to democracy temporarily
wise move to save the dual empire from German absorption
to shatter kaisers we must explode the mag
anes R3puSr wrath and berate democratic ideas
to completely the late aged EN-
peror Francis Josephs entire subseriency the German
between victory for the Kaiser and the consequent
shng OF IeutG9 e empire extending from the Baltic
oric Nile and the victory of the allies and the Uni
ea ne has every reason to fear the former and well
srs why not
peoples around the world and STILL like Britain retain their
monarchia form of government Indeed the Austrian en-
might make for himself in history by being
the ruler to crumbng nation helping to erect
upon its restored foundations great constitutional gov
eminent that would give virtual seue Magyar Sav
and Hungarian and Bohemian CZECH precisely az Canada
and Australia and in the future Ireland continue
to enjoy autonomy under the imperial flag Of Britain
We have only to point the few remaining autocras of
Europe to the fate of their immediate predecessors and
some their contemporary rulers to emphasize the
treachero character Of the which they are now
leaning No ruler in the world had dazzling realm
than the Cars Of Russia Yet Emperor Nicholas tipped
over backward in his imperial chair easily the only wonder
now is some miscellaneous Muscovte did not pull his throne
out from under him long ago.
The progate rulers of France in the latter part Of the
eighteenth century Louis XIV, and his numbered name
sakes followed by the red rule of Danton
and Hebe the Baste and the Reign of Terror from Octo
ber 1893 to July 1884 The great Napoleon June
1915 met first his Waterloo fields recently deluped with
blood and next his St. Helena France destined to UNI
dergo another bloody revolution in 1848 with the over.
throw of Louis Philippe followed by another empire under
another Napoleon and sangunary struggle with Germany
which in turn indirectly led to- the present world conflict
part of revenge.
Excuses may be committed in the name of liberty BY
democracles IN Europe to-day in bygone England