Slandering the Sovereign

NZ Truth, Issue 770, 7 August 1920, Page 1

Slandering the Sovereign

Did you hear the latest? The ■ " 'Split- Post," the "Daily Drfczzle" and the "Morning Mist" m Wellington, and the Tory and liberal rags m Auckland, Oiiri'stchurch and Dunedin might be proceeded against for sedition, disloyal utterance, libelling Wee Jordie the Five and the Windsor family (old style Wettin), and covertly instigating and fomenting rebellion! In reporting the suicide of one of Bill Hohenzollern's sons they all -with one voice declared the Kaiser exclaimed: "Yon Trill never get me to believe it" The Crown Prince collapsed, mu.ttertng, "One more misery." Of the ex-Kaiser's other eons, only August is engaged m ihonest work. He has entered the hanking firm of Krauses. The Red Feds! The Bolshies! Don't you see how cunningly, how insidiously th© anti -patriotic poison is being spread? Read the last two sentences again: Of the Kaiser's other sons only August is engaged m honest work. He lias entered the hanking firm ot t Krauses. Is that not covertly and by implication tantamount to saying that being a king or a prince merely and living by the game isn't "honest work"? And as our "five feet four" monarch and his numerous brood have "no other visible means of support," are we not justified m concluding that the paragraph complained of is getting one on to them? But young August is taken to honest work, has he. Then he is no Hun, or his Scots Stuart blood is asserting itself at last. The ""Dough- minion" tells us: \ Ho has entered the banking firm of Krauses. Entered a "banking flnn"J And that's the Plute press pen-pusher's postulate as to what is "honest work"! Why a king, who is merely a bearer of the title and the taker of the emoluments of office, such as Wee Jordie is to-day, is ten thousand times more honest than any banking firm ever attempted to be, or could be if it tried. Banking, as we know it to-day, is the most scientific scheme ever conceived for the purpose of fleecing the fleecers and at the same time strengthening the bulwarks of thieving capitalism. This fact but makes the crime of the plute press all the more outrageous m that it placed the occupation of the predatory, para--eitical banker on a more honorable pedestal than that of a prince or king.