The spectator., 1919-05-09
PAYS FUR PUTTING THE k|NG BUSINESS
 DOWN WITH FRITZ
rhOSE WHO HATED DEMOCRA. ciEs ARE EITHER DEAD OR
 DON'T KNOW IT.
IT IS WORTH THE PRICE
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the kaiser sits hy the fireplace at Amsronssn. He is an old man, with q withersd arm and hts hair is get- other side of the fireplace. Not long ago she was the empress of Germany and lived at Potsdam.
 Somewhere tn what used to bs i'm periA Russis, CsAr Nicholas died and tc this day no man knoweth his grave. or the grave of his Csarina or of the royal childrsn. The Cxsr had no love for democracy eithes.
 Charles of Austria? Lost somewhere h the volcanic twistinss of central Europe with she who used to be the Empress ziA. chArles,-well, he came of the autocrats of all autocrsts, the Hapsburgs They were no lovers of oon ocracies
 And who recalls Constantine of Greece. and Sophia, who used to be his queen! They are chah In the hur ricAns of democracy, dust in the winds of liberty
 Or Ferdinand of Bulgariaf The Fox of the Balkans" In what hole does the fox who parked like a Prussian hide?
 Big and little, they are going. There Is no need to call the roll of royalty or read the Almanach dc Gotha. 4 score of the rulers who believed in the divine rights of kings have gone. Some of them were kings and some of them wers princes, and some of them were grand dukes. but the thrones are vacant now.
 Only when a king stood as a man as well as . king has he fingered. There is Albert of Belgium. who is more of q democrat than king, and the ruler of England he, too. has meas ured up or doubtless be would have gone into the deep pits of oblivion in the days of tho 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 great representative gov. ernment. We showed that 1t could be done
 FIattenine Autocracy.
 Then we came into the war and ~. cry blow we struck was crumplins ancient thrones. smashing kings and fattenins autocracy. It cost us some thing like s30,o00, 100000 or will cost us that amount before we arc through, to give the king business . setback. but 1t has been worth all 1t cost.
 The world has had its lesson. To the world in general, to human beings everywhere. all the blood and treasure that has been spent wae money spent for bargain. IL has in fact been cheap at the price to crush militarism. end the menace of Hunlands kultur, and smash up the king business all at onee.
 How much did the Liberty Loans do toward sweeping the kings off the earth? Every loan was like tidal wave of dollars smashing and jarrins the strongest and solidest of these thrones. In the end they crumpled The pressure had become terrific The human beings on whose backs these thrones rested revolted and flung the thrones away.
 The Victory Liberty Loan will in ish the job, including that part of 1t that will sweep kings from tho earth. Freemen everywhere will re. toice at that. In America we have never loved king. IL will afford Us all real satisfaction to feel that the dollars that go into the Fifth. last and Victory Liberty Loan will be hepine 10 insure that the old, autocratic idea of government Is gone and that 1t will never return to again plague mankind