OCR Text |
Show did not. Do the German newspapers refer to President Wilson as The President or to King George as The King? Not on your Enough of this "The Kaiser" stuff. Leslie's Weekly for ne, is done with it. It hopes that other publications will join 'n the deletion. 1 M M " LET'S STOP HONORING THE MURDERER The following editorial from Leslie's Weekly will be read ) ere with interest by our many readers. The suggestion made herein is worthy of every loyal citizen's consideration: Leslie's Weekly pledges itself hereafter to refrain from the mention of William II, of Prussia as "The Kaiser. It has so instructed its contributors, editors and proofreaders proofread-ers and it respectfully asks other periodicals and the newspapers throughout the country to co-operate in eradicating from American Ameri-can print this incorrect, familiar and complimentary designation of the most vainglorious vandal and butcher m the history of thC Friedrich Wilhelm Victor Albert of Ilohenzollern. Germany, s king of Prussia and German emperor. Even to many of his own people he is not The Kaiser, much less so to any of us. His prandfather assumed the honor in 1871. William II is no more The Kaiser to the world at large than is Ferdinand of Bulgaria The Czar. Both copped their nicknames rom the successively dwindling Ceasars of the Holy Roman EmPYet every day the American press recognizes this arch-enemy arch-enemy of civilization by his own purloined title and credits a rlvmm made word with international significance does horn-ore horn-ore to the vilest personality of the ages. It is time to stop it Did Napoleon's enemies refer to him as The Lmperor They |