Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-05-08
PAYS FOR PUTTING
THE KING BUSINESS
DOWN WITH FRITZ
THOSE WHO HATED DEmocRA
ClEs AEE EITHER DEAD OR
DON'T KNOW IT.
IT IS WORTH THE PRICE
Only When a King stood as Man
Has He fingered on the
Scene.

The kaiser hated densocracies. And
the kaiser sits by the fireplace at
Amerongen. He Ia an old man, with
a withered arm and his hair is get
ting thin An old woman sits on the
other side of the fireplace. Not long
ago she was the empress Of Germany
and lived at Potsdam.
Somewhere in what used to be i'm
,perial Russia, Gear Nicholas died and
tic this day no man knoweth his grave,
'or the grave Of his Czarina or OF the
royal children. The Car had no love
far democracy esther.
Charles Of Austria? Lost somewhere
in the volcanic twisttng8 Of contral
Europe with she who used to be the
Empress Zita. Charles,--well, he
came of the autocrats of all autocrats.
the Hapsburg5. They were no lovers
of democracies.
And VINO recalls Constantine OF
Greece, and Sophia, who used to be
his queen? They aye chaff in the hur-
ricane Of democracy, dust in the winds
OF liberty.
Or Ferdinand Of Bulgaria? The Fox
Of the Balkans" In what hole docs the
fox who barked like a Prussian hide?
Big and little, they are going. There
is no need to call the roll of royalty
or read the Almanach de Gotha. y
score of the rulers who believed in
the divine rights of kings have gone.
Some of them were kings and some
Of them were princes, and some of
them were grand dukes, but tn
thrones are vacant now.
Only when a king stood as a man
as well as a king has he fingered,
There is Albert of Belgium, who is
more of a democrat than a king, and
the ruler CT England he, too, has meas
ured UP or doubtless he would have
gone into the deep pits of oblivion in
the days Of the war.
The people of the world are going
to rule themselves. And we here in
America are largely responsible for
what has happened In the first place,
we set the example of a powerful re-
public. Of a great representative gov
eminent We showed that it could be
done.
Fattening Autoeracy.
Then we came into the war and ev-
cry blow we struck was crumplire
ancient thrones, smashing kings and
hattening autocracy. 1t cost us some
thing like 100000 100000 or will. cost
us that amount before we are through,
to give the king business a setback,
but it has been worth all it cost.
The world has had it's lesson. To
the world in general, to human beings
everywhere, all the blood and treasure
that has been spent was money spent
Tor a bargain. It has in fact been
cheap at the price to crush mEitarism,
end the menace of Hunland's kultur,
and smash up the king business all at
Cnce.
How much did the Liberty Loans
do toward sweeping the kings off the
earth? Every loan was like a tidal
wave Of dollars smashing and Earring
the strongest and AoliGest of these
thrones. In the end they crumpled
The pressure had become terrific. re
human beings On whose backs these
thrones rested revolted and flung the
thrones away
The Victory Liberty Loan will fin
ish the job, including that part Of
it that will sweep kings from the
earth. Freemen everywhere viii re.
joice at that. In America we have
never loved a king 1t will afford us
all real satisfaction to feel that the
dollars thdt SO into the Fifth, last ard
Victory Liberty Loan will be hoping
to insure that the old autocratic idea
{ of government is gone aud that it will
never return to again plague mankind.
EASY IF WE ARE statesmen.