New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-06-01
CONTINUING THE ROAST.
THE LYTEL GESTE OF CARL sCHURZ IN
THE PULPIT.

The Rev. James Freeman Clarke, accusing
Senators of being false to truth ana 10 theii
country, gives sign of having so mucn as ieau
the debate which furnishes the ground OF MS ac-
cusatiop He does not even allude 10, much less
does he refute the essential points asserted anu
discussed i'm the Senate. He sees nothing but an
ATTEMPT of Senators to prosecute Secretary Schurz
for his foreign birth. l quote again al that he
saws Oh the Timber question.
The attacks of the Secretary Of the Int
rio Mr. Schurz indicate very trikngly the false ana m
ScbuTz has devoted himself with untiring industry ana
great ability to the duties OF his office Among thei ne
found that OF freeing the forests Of the United STATES
from piunderers WHO were having them waste For do
ing this. he has been bitterly abused by cpmDc ot
atOs and that the most trivial grounds we can lor
him tive credit of saving the United states properly
from piunder, and we arc told mat ne Is a s;
fully ana We are informed that Germany Is not as
large these Western Terlt"llGs IL Is naaG vt1
ia tie to resist robbers because ne Is OF oIes
extraction He is to have 10 credit Tor MS Oa sci ices
tSt az n ccnnry Witch he bcnefts and honoIs by
noble character and eminent talents.
Referring to The Congressional Record, 1t will be
seen that only two Senators, Mr.. Blaine of Maine,
and Mr.. Teller, of Colorado, made any allusion to
Mr. schurz's foreign birth. Not that Mr.. Clarke
has read or heard the remarks of these gentlemen ;
that be far from thee, Boston! Mr. Clarke's render
ing of Solomon's proverb is: :" lie that hcareth
matter before he judgcth it. il is folly and shame
unto him. Mr. Clarke never tarries long enough
with fact to know its face. All the use he has for
facts is to play tag with them. lie " tags TINS
time Mr.. Schurzs German origin. and then runs n
little attention to what was said on this point will
show how utterly Enthusiastically IRE MIR. Clarkes
statements.
Some days after Mr.. Blaine had made his first
comments on the question. based on the letter OF
the Delegate from Montana. he spoke a second time
In reply to Secretary Schurzs letter, and to what
t.ol hill Iaho hN
quote his exact words from The Congressional Record
Iarraigned the Secretary of the Interior as being IN
that action not intelligent man OF affairs hat IL was
not the work practical man OF business
that il was the chimera the delusiOn OF an utterly I'M
practicable theorst That is the arraiCnment made
and here decare-repeating what SAID bei0re-'hat
Secretary of the Interior upon the top OF the
S%ds an Which h G and vn AND @
thousands o, acres of timber land, ana for the
not get for the wood in sight OF the National
Capitu 80 cents cord stunpage Nay. sir ne Wood,
New-Yok will pay what the Secretary of the Int
place sufficiently settled. there is no population
sufficiently dense III tins country TO justly WAat ,o
Secretary of the Interior demanded ami collected from
these distant people, being in the remote sotudos OF
Why Hr President consider the circumstances. Our
country i so vast that We forget Its magnitude; the
directly with Department OF the GovcrnmeIt whlcn
should study 1t carefully The Territory OF Montana
contains 100000 square miles; II is rs large as New
York aud New-Jersey and De aware and Maryland and
PenLsJ !'ault and ONO all lut ioee'hgr anu
AREA thu; is threatening to destroy the prop
eriy OF tc United States How many people theref
nay.. ii tnis county. TGat his fault. and do
NOT mention with any spirit OF reproach He Is ma
tive OF h Kingdom OF Prussia The Kingdom OF lTus-
sia Is 1000 square miles less In extent than the Teri,
tory O! ."ntana, ana hasa population OF .2OOOOOO
people Joutanawth this vast area Of mountain gorges
and mountain tops mas sparse and adventurous pou-
iaoh o. -'UOO peopt 1ou can i"Iv mem ~, IA i 81 " ar
III hail:ng distance Of another in the entire
Territory. They have gone there to battle with all
their enterprise that within the last fifteen years they
have contributed TO the wealth Of this country Sl3OOOO
"a and silver bullion. Thoy have sent into your
markets $50 0OOO 600 repeat OF gold ana silver bull
hon. and the Secretary OF the Interior perhaps with
tue uadiions Of his young nanhood ana DQyhood np-
land laws Of the settled Territories OF the United States
Iguote also, the words Of Senator Teller, Of Col
orado:
The Secretary OF the Interior abOrs under ignorance
Of the py steal condition OF that country He supp0res
Montana in Idaho ii Nevada like what in the
Kingdom OF Prussia, from winch he came He supPoses
least that is the way he treats t-hat the climate Is
and believe he has before the senate some
where iberng III some committees proposition that
so that Western country and take charge OF The
timber siOwlnS on the public lands.
Th, is the sum and suhstance-I believe it is
literally all-that said on MIR. SchuIz's foreign
birth. Bnt. having no other defence to make in
answer to a debate in which Mr. Schurz's adherents
either He'd or surrendered, the newspaper indorsers
of the Secretary at once dropped fact and argument
and sounded the ocsiD the abuse and persecution
lie was suffering because he was born in Prussia.
And il is this brazen and blatant falsehOOd, this
vulgar and vicious attempt TO gain by sympathy
what had been lost by evidence, which the Rev.
Jane Freeman Clarke tattles from the sacred desk.
Considering how far this debate was from being
done in corner it must be admitted that. ike
King David from Hadadezer, it took exceeding
much brass to make Mr. Clarkes statements!
= IL. Il. IL
any Senator's arguments but the reader must be
very dull who does not perceive III the foregoing
tracts from the Senate debate not spirit of narrow
hostility but an entirely pertinent line of remark, a
conclusive form of reasoning perfectly natural in
ference and reference that was not indicate nor
improper nor in any sense offensive to any right
minded German.
The whole history of the Montana timber ques-
ton shows that Mr.. Blaine and Mr.. Teller not
- abusive but accurate when they said that Mr.
Schurz in that action not a practical man of
business but an impractcabe theOrist; that he was
applying to our country the land laws of Prussia
and not of the United States; and that he was aI-
parently ignorant of the difference between the
country Of his birth and the country of his adOp-
ton The history of the proposition to which Mr..
Teller casually and rather cavaiery refers shows,
if mistake not, the same thing. These Senators
were not speaking in the random, rhetorical way
employed by Mr. Clarke; they were speaking by
the law and by the testimony. At that very mo-
mept there was pending before the Senate Com
mittce on Public Lands bill, prepared under Mr..
SchuIs direction. having iii view the direct intro
duction of Prussian land laws into this country.
Yet perhaps speak too positively here. have
not self been able to get to the land laws
of Prussia. except as they lie buried III dreadful
tones in the German language on hopeless shelves
n tan bn hon pIar-
take to exhume them and translate them!
Rnt one need olfy travel as far toward