The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-03
Heart To Heart Talks
By EDWIN A. NYE

canyon road. Tonight they will dance
 at one of the resort hotels up in the park,
 and tomorrow they will spoil some other
 solitude with the stench of their burning | oil
 1 Seeing the mountains? | What do these get-beautyqu tour | ists see of thls wonderous mountain
 stream, beside which one must spend | days of appreciation, or of the gran | deur of crag and pine and the noun
 tain fastness, or of the aisles of stately
 forests, or of purple shadows falling on eternal shows?
 The mountains! How their majestic and mystic charm steals into the heart and soothes and satisfies and purifiesi And how the memory of them fingers! | There they stand, pile and terrace and crag, higher and higher and yet | higher until they blend their snowy | horizon against the cobalt blue of the | heavens.
 In their mighty presence what soul
 of man could be mean? l Western Extrayngancc | The Denver Post has been conduct | ing ballot to find out who is the best dressed man in Denver. ! Eheul And also pifflei Denver is verle town where, if any where, men should be distinguished | for the brains they use. the things they | do the hearts they carry in their bosorns rather than for the clothes the wear | If the ballot were to decide who is | the greatest orator. best writer, ablest | civil engineer, sanest merchant, most competent architect or the citizen with most civil pride the contest would be worth while But o tempore o mores The town talk was all about the local In Ea1a a~lt a,.d ol,r
 golf and polo habltues who affect mon dsrammed underwear and imported | socks.
 Has Denver forgotten the guffaw that | went the country over when Senator | Tabor, "who built the opera house, you | know showed his SIS nightgown on a | Pullman?
 | circumstance to be compared with thhe reported costumes of Denver's Beau Brummels.
 Neatness, cleanliness and good taste | in dress are not without merit in
 man; but, shades of Carlyle, shirts at
 $100 the haf-dozen, pajamas at $l6O the dozen, silk hose at $l44 the dozen, shoes
 at $26 each and hats at s20 apiece, all imported or specially manufactured, re- veal neither good taste nor good sense. Such expenditures spell extravaganza, and extravagance is the crying sin of the day
 Thousand dollar outfits are out of 1 place in a city where worthy men have | not where to lay their heads, where women walk the streets from poverty | and where little children go supperless | to bed.
 | Happily for us. the vulgar rich of | our cities constitute only the scum and I not the substance of our social fabric. | Half of our people take for their ideal | man Abraham Lincoln and the other half | Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson set the 1 pace for democratic simplicity, and until | he was elected to congress Lincoln had never worn a suit of underwear Lest We Forget | The whirlgig of time and the boom erang of history | In 1887 William Lyon Mckenzie was | the head of rebellion in upper Canada. | A price of $5,0OO was put upon the head of this rebel by the government | Prestoi
 | In the year 1910 Mckenzie King. grandson of the rebel of 37, is minister of labor of the Dominion ofo Canada. | That the grandson is worthy of his | grandsire who fought for the liberties | of the Canadian people is shown by the high esteem in which Mckenzie King | is held no less than by his ability. It was King whose personal influence | settled the recent strike on the Grand | Trunk lines. And, more than that, by | interfering in an official way lie estab- lished government intervention as a
 proper procedure in industrial disturb
 ances-a long step forward. | To go back to ST. | It is one of the facts of history that
 everything the Canadian rebels fought | for in that revolt was finally granted
 Most of the reforms came in 1S40. | And this Is the lesson: Whatever is worthwhile in governrn ent has been fought for by somebody sor11e- | where.
 | Eternal vigilance Is the price of the complete recognition of the political rights of the people. What the people get for themselves they must fight for | Happily for our day and country there is no longer need for appeal to | the arbitrament of arms. There is the | ballot box, that "executs a freema n will as lightning does the will of God" | But we forget.
 | When the war drums of the exalted pa- | triotic passion beat their call, when
 the flag of reform goes by, the soldiers
 of the right, following In divine mad
 ness their divine impulses sweep from | in front of them the organized forces
 of unrighteous routine and of fixed
 wrong And then
 | The people forget.
 | The battle flags of high resolve are | furled, the war drums of righteousness | throb no longer, the tidal wave recedes
 and greed and selfishness are again en- | throned.