The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-08-16

Republican State Central C
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, 1877.
Mr.. Schurz, like CULVER of old, finds
himself an object of nlerciless archery
at the hands of Lilliputian warriors, and
their arrows are still capable of wound
ing if we may Judge from the care he
takes to deny the statements of Gail
Hamilton and others in regard to his
compensation while stumping Pennsyl-
yania and other states in the past can
yass. What boots it that he was paid.
No orator ever had more weight than he,
in any State where he discussed the
issues of the day, and it has always been
conceded that his presence turned the
tide for Sir. Hayes in 1875, when his
defeat as governor of Ohio meant defeat
for the Republican candidate for Presi-
dent in 1876. 1t is no more than night
that Mr.. Hayes should reward him in
some form, and putting him in tue Cab
met is nobody's business, even if his
expenses were paid at the time.
Personally we are warmly opposed to
his Civil Service reform hobby and scout
it earnestly as we do the whole English
or German system of clerical labor,
where five men are requisite to do as
much work as we exact from one I've
American.
We depreciate any system whereby
men are fossilized and by which we are
barred from applying our true American
remedy of new blood, new men, and
new order of things generally when
public affairs are administered as in
England and Germany in the circumlo
cution how not to-do-it-way. But Mr..
Schurz lawfully has the deal, and we
demur to this wholesale abuse and alb
straction noy visited upon him. No
one can question his honor and his in
tegrity and we feel like upholding him
in all he docs simply because his admin
istratiou, in SO far as he can make it, in
contrast with what the Interior Dept,
was under Mr.. Delano's reign, is an
oasis in the desert of corruption and
wilfull i'll doing.
WASHINGTON MONUMENT.
The sentiment against change of
plan in finishing this huge dead weight
is becoming very decided, and We may
say that Congress will determine to com
plete it as one great shaft on its present
base or will tear it away and have no
monument whatever. 1t is questioned
whether we should have more than
Mount Vernon as a memento of the
Father of our Country. There we have
him duly enshrined and any worshiper
can devoutedly look upon the sarcopila
gus containing his ashes, and upon the
spots which he rendered holy by his
walking thereon, provided the pilgrim
pays his dollar to the Steamer 'tAr1ow"
for the sole use and behoof of the high
priests who preside over the sacred pre-
cincts, and duly guard the precious re-
mains and souvenirs. Ancient Egypt
built huge piles of masonery as monu-
ments TO her great, and their outlines
against the distant sky are said by trav-
eliers to be the most sublime spectacle
of the East. So might we build great
shaft to which the traveller in the dis
lance might ever turn his eye and noting
it against the horizon remember that we
have one as worthy of never dying
monument as an ancient monarch. And
yet rs we gaze upon that sacred spot,
Mount Vernon, where % cents admit
lance affords us an opportunity to weep,
as at Adams sepulchre, did Mark Twain,
we feel ready at times to say let us never
add another stone 10 Washineton's
memory.