Cañon City record., 1909-11-18
Napoleon's Tracks


you to his last great German battle
field. There is a monument on the
hill to the gallant General Moreau.
a French bourbon who was so much
of bourbon and a royalist that he
left his own country. Joined the Ger
man forces and died fighting Napo-
leon and his own countrymen. That
is dying for a cause in real earnest.
But from Dresden to Brussels,
| where Napoleon went down. and
everywhere on the battlefield of Wa
terloo. in the sops. in the streets, we
were reminded of Napoleon. His pic
lures. his effegy, monuments, made
from his captured cannon. trophies
of his battles-always Napoleon and
his tragedy are with one in the north
of Europe. Even the monument to
Blucher in Berlin-the man who fl
nally shattered the pinions of the
Eagle-even Blucher recalls Napoleon.
The German love of military splen-
dor seems to leap the bounds OF race
to do Napoleon unconscious honor.
And Berlin itself, the great beautiful
city which is the dream of its emper-
or. seems such a splendid city with
its gorgeous military monuments as
Napoleon himself would have planned
and made.
Probably there is nothing in mod
ern civilization more beautiful than
Berlin. They say that now 1t is more
beautiful than Paris. All that wealth
and power and art can do TO make a
magnificent municipal spectacle has
been done and done thoroughly we'll
in Berlin.
There also is wonderful park-a
great public play ground 500 acres
In extent, In the heart OF the city. All
over the city are wide plazas adorn-
ed with monuments OF the kings and
emperors. Galleries and museums
owned by the people and free to the
people abound.
The shops are bright and modern
and expensive. but not 30 large as
stores in America. The great depart
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900 people. does not carry so large
stock nor at such reasonable prices
as the Kansas City stores carry. and
Wanamaker's or Marshall Fields
would absorb the Berlin store with
out Increasing its floor space.
The crowds In Berlin are well
dressed-and there is an air OF great
prosperity among the common people.
In the rubberneck wagon we saw
poor quarters. but no squalor. The
poor. looks after the tenements and
demands sanitation and light and con-
yeniences from the landlords.
But as in Dresden and In Munich
the soldier is greatly in evidence. He
is housed in great barracks. He Is
seen in every crowd. He adds the
color of his uniform and the glitter
OF his helmet to every spectacle. And
the people pay for It.
For the soldier. after he passes n
certain sensible point in numbers.
produces nothing He Is on the backs
Of the people. Soldiers in time OF
peace. more than are needed to keep
the peace, always are on the backs OF
the people. IN Italy the priests are
on the backs of the people. But in
our own country we have mighty few
non-producers on our backs. So we
are a free country.
But Germany also Is a free coun-
try Speaking broadly and allowing
for certain obvious exceptions. one
would say that the freedom of Ger
many differs from our American free
dom in this: With us the Individual
has great freedom and the govern
ment little. There the government
has great freedom at the expense of
the individual. Our tendency In indi-
vidualistic fraaernal. Germany's
tendency, just now. is soclallstic-pa-
ternal. And in a measure this Is true
OF all continental Europe. The trend
is toward great power TO the govern
ment-whether city. state or federal
and away from great power to the
man. The man in the mass must find
his happiness only In the welfare OF
the many In Europe. II Ia 30 In Bel
gium and in a measure It is SO In
Holland.
But that we reveled In their homely
truth. We went from the pictures into
the streets and there saw In the flesh
what We had ina, been iookIn1 at on
the canvasses.
The Hague is n great country town.
Its streets are narrow. but spotless.