Cañon City record., 1909-11-04

| The German monuments to the
where hold the figure of woman
bending over the hard work in the
fields with her household tasks still
ahead of her, with the joy gone from
her face and figure, and only the
WEAKNESS and despair of a broken
and distorted life in her features. That
statue should be called 1.-THE Path OF
Glory" But it should be set down
here and now that Germany is i'm
proving The attitude of the people
toward the soldiers is changing.
They say the soldiers used to be in
solent. We saw none of it. They were
most civil. They say the citizens used
to have to salute the mail trains and
mail wagons. We saw nothing of this.
| Trains bearing the royal mail come
and go in German stations now with
no more fuss than mail trains in
America.
There is no official arrogance, and
the soldiers and railroad employees
are as civil as they are elsewhere in
the world. And there is this to be said
for Kaiser wilhelm: He is the most
progressive and apparently the most
conscientious ruler in Europe. He has
little real political power. Our Ameri-
can president can do more than the
Kaiser under the law.
But Wilhelm uses his vast social
prestige in the empire as a lever for
Righteousness and. barring his mill
tary vanity, he is a man of wide
outlook, great vision and growing
wisdom. He will leave Germany big
ger, brighter, happier. wiser and
kinder than he found her. He is a
type OF the new ruler now coming
into the world, who exalts his Office
however high: and is not exalted by
his office.
And the German empire under
Kaiser Wilhelm today is growing ma
terially and spiritually as no other
nation In all Europe is growing. But
it is growing toward a democracy and
away from the Imperialism which be-
sets the emperor's mind. The great
German manufacturing cities. modern
to the limit OF modernity. are produc-
ing an Industrial democracy. and that
sort OF a social organization will not
always endure a warlike organization.
The good that the Kaiser is doing in
demanding a restriction of greed in
business and a broadening of oppor-
tunities for the average man will live.
His military vanity. give the evil In
all OF us. will be inferred with his
bones.
Germany. more thA any other
modern nation. has the war spirit in
her blood. Otherwise she would not
abide the Kaiser. Whether we elect
our rulers or inherit them. insofar as
we put up with them they represent
u.s. II the Kaiser would resign he
probably would be elected. or some
one like him.
All over Germany one sees his
cocky little turnedup mustache on
the men; just as one sees King Ed
wards beard in England and Leo
pold's majestic sweep of whiskers In
Belgium: or--as we saw McKinley's
smooth face on the politicians of the
late nlneties in America
And in Dresden. one of the most
beautiful cities in Europe. the men
were terribly cut up. deciding be-
tween the ncety mustache OF their en- !
peror. and a mild. stubby little blond
lip cover affected by their king.
The kings in the German empire
are not much. They are about like our
governors. The King OF Dresden 10 ex-
ceedingly Democratic. He minEies
with the people, his children skate
on the lakes in the public park in
winter. for instance. with a crowd;
he appears at public functions and
is a good fellow.
They say he has to. But ae he has
his job for life one doesn't see why
he has to. They reply. TO gain popu-
larity." And when one asks why he
needs popularity. they smile and say.
We'll II he didn't have TO have It he
wouldn't be doing all these things to
get II, would he?" Which forces the
conclusion that public sentiment
works on kings Just as 1t does on gov
ernors and legislatures and courts
and that II the people desire anything
in the way of government long enough
and strong enough they can have it
king or no king. constitution or not
In Dresden theY have all sorts of