The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-05-10
PAYS FOR PUTT|NG
! THE KING BUSINESS
DOWN WITH FRITZ
THOSE WHO HATED DEMOCRAT
cIES ARE EITHER DEAD OR
DON'T KNOW 1T.
n IS WORTH THE PRICE
Only When King Stood as a Man
Has He fingered on the
Scene.

The kaiser hated democracies. And
the kaiser sits by the fireplace at
Amerongen. He Is 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, Gar Nicholas died and
to this day no man knoweth his grave.
or the grave of his Czarina or of the
royal children. The Car had no love
for democracy either
Charles Of Austria? Lost somewhere
in the volcanic twistings Of centrai
Europe with she who used to be the
Empress Zita, CharIes,-well. he
came of the autocrats OF all aueocrats,
the Hapsburgs. They were no lovers
OF democracies.
And VINO recalls Constantine of
Greece, and Sophia, who used to be
his queen? They are chaff in the hur-
ricare Of democracy, dust in the winds
of liberty
Or Ferdinand of Bulgaria? The Fox
Of the Balkans" In what hole does the
fox who barked like Prussian hide?
Big and little, they are going. There
is no need to cafl the roll of royalty
or read the Almanach de Gotha. A
score of the rulers who believed in
the divine rights of kings have gone.
Some of them were kings and some
or them were princes, and some of
them were grand dukes, but the /
thrones are vacant now.
Only when king stood as man,
as well as king has he fingered!
There Is Albert of Belgium, who is
more of democrat than king, and
he ruler Of England he, too, has meas
ired up or doubtless he would have
zone into the deep pits Of oblivion in
he days Of the war.
The people Of the world are going
% 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.
'Tnment. We showed that 1t could be
lone.
FISttening Awtoeracy.
Then we came into the war and eV-
ry blow we struck was crumpIfng q
nefent thrones, smashing kings and 4
attening aufOcTaey II cost us some 4
ring like $3O,0O0, 0OAO or will cost a
q That ou4nuut L>aRo,-~, ,,,o - thro,,1h
D. give the king business a setback, 7
ut 1t has been worth all 1t cost. 4
The world has had its lesson. To !
ae' world in general, To human beings 4
all the b{10d and treasure
hat has been spent was money spent i
Dr. a bargain. It has in fact been |,
heap at the price to- crush militarism, :
nd the menace OF Runland's kultur. :
nd smash up the king business all at /;
nee! !. Y
HOW much did the Liberty Loans :
o. toward sweeping the kings 81 the
arthE Every loan was like a tidal T
ave Of dollars smashing and iarrinG
lie strongest and solidast Of these =
lrones. In the end they erumpled, .
he PRESSURE had become terrific. TIE 4
nman beings on whose backs these =
lrones, rested neVoieed and flung the I
irones away.
The Victory LiBeaty Loan will I'm, 4
b the job; including that part of
that will sweep kings from the '
irth. Freemen everywhere win re- r
ice at that. In America we have 4
ever loved king. II will afford us S
i real satisfaction to feel that the. a
ollars that go into the Fifth, last and @
ictory Liberty Loan will be hoping e
, insure that the old, autocratic idea I
government is, gone and that it will d
ever return to again plague mankind.