Show CARL SCHURZ Carl Schurz gave the New York Heraldan Interview the other day In which ho expressed the opinion that this would be the most Important campaign cam-paign waged In the United States since the Civil war and for the reason that Tim American people are to determine whether they will Bland by tho Declara lion of Independence and tho leaching of leaching Washington and Lincoln or abandon these to support McKlnlcy In his nblndon Imperial policy of urlmlnul aggression conquest by force perfidy to allies and arbitrary rulo over distant populations Whereupon tho Now York Sun calls Schurz that lightningchange political performer and for his cdlllcallon prints tho letter which President Lincoln Lin-coln wrote to Mr Carl Schurz on the 24th of November 1SC2 published I in tho Life of Abraham Lincoln by John Nlcolay and John Hay as fol lows I have Just received mil read your let ter of the 20lh Tho purport of H OU that wo lost Die kite clccilonn und the Admin istration Is falling bcatniHu tin war Is I un biicco8lul und that 1 mUKt not llallor myself that 1 am not Justly lol to biOnIc for It I i certainly know that 1C ho war falls Ie hI tho Administration fails and thai 1 fnll be blamed for It whether I deserve it or not And 1 ought to bo hln I 1 clctclt I I could do better You think I could dq bettor and therefore you blono w U already I blarno think 1 uoulil not do bailor thurcCoru I I you for blnmlug me 1 umlenUand you now to bo willing to accent the help of input who am nol Re publicans provided they Jf O hrari fe Jl Agreed I want no othora hilt who IM to bo I itt Judge of hOr or Bi hourt In it I I must discard my own Judg ment and take yours I must alNo lake that oC others and by thin lino L uhould should reject all havu 1 should nono be loft advised Republicans to rl thoult otlurs lot oven yonrnelf lofullcnn as or sured my deiir MIl ihure are men who Imo heart men In U l hat think you arc performing your I pnrtaH jinnrly n you L J think I am performing mine Abraham Lincoln Vol VII SC36I a History VI pp il Every man in the Unite States ought to read the above especially every Germanborn man Very many of the latter class In this vicinity have affected af-fected to think that we do not lea Oar Schurz because ho happened to be Ger manborn nstcad of American Had he been Americanborn with Just such a brain as he has he never would have emerged from some obscure position In somo State and would have been known as an Implacable man who loved to quarrel with his neighbors the original orig-inal boss with unstable Judgment In tho first years of the war when men from behind the ploughs and from the shops were under training as soldiers and when defeat afltor defeat followed tho Union armies this same Schurz had the supreme gall to write a complaining com-plaining letter to Abraham Lincoln blaming him for the trouble and pointIng point-Ing out to him that the Congressional election had gone against the Republicans Republi-cans and that he was to blame for that result He Is In tho same humor this year he always hns been In that humor hu-mor There is nothing on earth he enjoys en-joys so much as a row He never has built up anything His whole life has been spent In trying to tear down and among all tho successes which his native na-tive country has achieved In the last forty years not one was more satisfactory satisfac-tory to that country not one tended any more to the peace of that country than the banishment of Carl Schurz In his own quaint sensible quiet and goodnatured way it will be seen how Abraham Lincoln turned aside from the cares that were oppressing him to put a final quietus on tho dissatisfied Schurz But he did not neglect L duty even while attending to his duty to Carl Schurz Let us all follow his example ex-ample ns nearly as we can and not neglect any duties during this campaign cam-paign but all tho lime holding In our hearts tho contempt for Carl Schurz that ho deserves I Is infamous the way ho is closing his life He came hero a fugitive Honors infinitely beyond be-yond his deserts have been showered upon him but fourfifths of Ihe time ho has been quarreling with the country coun-try He was a dead failure as a solr dler he was Just as much of a failure as a statesman He Is an irreconcilable and implacable eccentric creature who would bo dangerous If the people did not undersand him so well |