Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-09-26

He referred to the mission of Leon Chateau
to this country TO get atreaty and legislation to
let in French wines, and the wine-growerS OF
San Francisco had taken alarm and subscribed
money to have their interests properly repre-
scented in Washington and to show that such
lowering of the tariff would destroy prosper
GUS and promising industry. The Democrats
propose to do Leon Chatteau's work for it is
idle to suppose the duty will be kept on wine
and taken of shoes, wool. raisins and general
manufactures. What are the wine men going TO
do about it?
One of the curious anomalies of this election
is to see men whose only resource is their labor
swell Democratic professions, and strengthen
the hands of those whose policy is to reduce
them and their families to the level of European
and ASiatic squalor. Such aspectacle may we'll
justify the belief that
Judgment has fed to british beasts,
And men have lost their reason.
II is said that one voter in seven cannot write.
That should measure the support of this Demo
cratic policy
BIAINE'S RELATIONS WITH GERMANS.
Upon the alleged hostility of German-A Amer
leans to Mr. Blaine, he said: So far as have
been able to discover, this is untrue. II would
be natural that you should appreciate his great
abilities and his eminent services and prefer
him to his mediocre opponent, who seems TO
have no record calculated to inspire attachment
or admiration. Blaine'S enemies have never
been able to produce one word, spoken or writ
ten, in the least. degree unfriendly TO the Ger
mans On the other hand, lie has had oppor-
tunity on several occasions to testify his respect
for his fellow citizens vi German descent, and
on one particular occasion in very marked and
public manner. His letter OF invitation as Sec
rotary of State July 80. 1881 to the representa-
tiveS of the Won Steuben family to attend the
Yorktown celebration is Il strong proof of his
admiration of the German character. In that
letter he related that during the darkest period
of the Revolutionary War Il German soldier
of character and determination rendered his
-slvl L fNFl.
and joined Washington in the memorable
and disastrous winter of IFS. He tested the
sincerity of his attachment to the patriot cause
by espousing it when its fortunes were adverse.
its prospects gloomy, and its hopes, but for the
intense zeal OF the people, well nigh crushed.
Baron Steuben was received by Washington
with the most cordial welcome, who made him
inspector General of the army. He had served
in the seYen-years' war under Frederick the
Great and acquired under that master the skill
needed by the unframed patriot soldiers. The
raw leVIcS were soon transformed into veterans,
who successfully met the British regulars in all
subsequent battles. Baron Steuben bore heroic
part in the wal, until the final surrendero of Corn
wallis at Yorktown. The centennial of this
great event was appropriately celebrated, and
the President directed that the representatives
of Won Stcubens family be invited to attend as
guests of the nited States. IN transmitting the
invitation
MP. ELAINE WROTE:
Those who come as the representatives Of
ptlpH N,tuDtl ; ldInllI WI De assured III Oul
day Of peace and prosperity of as warm vel
come as was given to their IllustriOuS liinsmau
i'll the dark days Of adversely and war. They
viii be the hOnored guests of fifty million
Americans, Il vast number Of whom have Ger
man blood in their veins, and constitute one OF
the most worthy and valuable elements that
make up the strength Of the republic. Intensely
devoted, with patriotic fidelity, to America
they yet retain and cherish and transmit the
most afiec!ionate memory of FatheTland. To
these the visit of Baron SteubenS relatives will
have something of the revival of family ties
while to all Americans OF whatever origin, the
presence OF German guests will afford fitting OPP
pOrtunity of testiiying their respect for that
great country within whose imperial limits are
included 50 much of human grandeur and
human progress.
THE EMPEEOE'S APPRECIATION OF MR.. BLAINE
one result Of this courtesy on the part of Mr..
Blaine was somewhat noteworthy. | ask par
dOn for stating 1t, rs it was personal in its
nature, but II answers eHectually the misrepre-
sensations of Democratic press and speakers
So pleased was the Germen Government with
the course of Mr.. Blaine in this matter that the
venerable Emperor and Crown Prince had their
portraits especially painted for him, and pre-
scented through the German Legation ut Wash
ngton. Count Won BeuSt, i'll presenting the
portraits wrote:
His Majesty, the Emperor and the Crown
Prince OF Germany have sent me their portraits.
with their autographs attached, instructing me
TO present them 10 YOU. in appreciation OF your
:. l'tllitt4Ndl etlltIIltAtH tAlltlLti Oh every
occasion towards the German Government and
the German people and more especially on the
occasion OF the recent visit to the United States
Of the members Of the Won -teuben family"
The highest German official in the United
States recognized the fact that Mr. Blaincs SEN
tiIncnts were on all occasions IN sympathy with
the German people How pitihu campaign
ISLANDERS seem III face of such testimony
Nf. Blaine, in reply, expressed his most cor
dlal wishes Tor the continued prosperity OF the
German Government and the German people"
TIE TIMBER LAND BILL.
y German speaker recently arraigned Mr.
Blaine in Il speech made in this CITY for opp0s-
ing in the senate MI Schuz forestry appro-
prlatiOn, reducing the sum from $4,000 to 900
and said Mr.. Blaine reflected on Mr. SchurZ on
the ground that he isa German. The speaker is
mistaken in all his facts. | remember the de
bate very well, participated in it, and requested
Mr.. blaine help which he cheeriully accord
ed, as he always did when the interests of this
coast were Involved. Mr.. Schurz proposition
was to put the large sum named in his hands
as Secretary of the Interior to collect evidence
against ana prosecute those cutting tim
Der on the public lands. At that time
there was no law under which any
one could buy timber land. The effect
of the sudden .tOppage of all The sawmilis in
feared. If n business which up to that time
had been licensed by the acguiescencc of
the Government was suddenly made Grim
lnal, the people would be soon with
their towns, or timber their mines. They would
have no wood 10 burn in the winter, and
would be driven out Of the mountains. cen
tended that the Government should first pass q
bill by which citizens could buy timber land,
and after that it might prosecute trcspaSScrs all
1t pleased In the course Of the debate Mr..
Elaine said the project of the Secretary might
accord with his experience, and be applicable
to Prussia, small Kingdom, where timber
lands were handled exclusively by the Govern
ment; but II would not apply TO our extensive
Pacific States and Territories, where the people,
up to that time. had 10 choice but to help
themselves or leave the country. This reason
ing convinced the Senate, and the appropria-
ton was en- down to a sum sufficient to protect
the livc-Oak reserves Of Florida, and my hill for
the sale of timber lands passed that body soon
after. The illustration used by Mr. Blaine was
a simple truth, ana no one saw in il at the time
slur on MI SchuZ unless it was that gentle
man himself, much less one on Germans. He
must be a feeblc-miudcd person whose vote
could be influenced by such suggestions.
WHY scHURz DIsLIKEs BLAINE.
NJ Schurz dislike for Mr.. Blaine was PROMPT
ed 10y series of articles written FOR n New York
paper by Gale Hamilton, in which MIR. Schurz
was rldiculed after the peculiar cauStc manner
of that lady. As she is Il relative of Mrs Blaine
and sometimes a visitor at her house, Mr.. Schurz
held Mir Blaine responsible for them. The let
tiers were. indeed very funny, and probably en-
loycd by everybody but Mr. SchurZ. Following
his swift logic, he held Mr. Blaine responsible
for his wife's rclatives-fOr her sisters and her
cousins and her aunts. This campaign has given
him his first chance to retaliate. and ii must be
confessed he has put genius into it. He has is
sued a pamphlet in the German language
against Mr.. Blaine, which the National Demo
cratic Committee has put into the hands of
every German whom it could reach. The book
Is Just such a one as would be likely to be pro-
duced under such circumstances by person
having such feelings. But il is not the work of
4 ju igc it is that Of an advocate Ii is grossly
unfair in its distortion of facts, aud gra-
tuitOus in its differences. Anyone who com
pared It's confused dates, its abundant sneers its
suggested suspicious did not need the subse-
qucat testimony and the clear statement of OK
Senator Mcdonald to refIIte its conclusions. Ii
had hardly made a ripple on the political sur
face, when its principal points were refutcd by
evidence.
FORMER ERRATIC POSITION.
Mr.. Schurz is too violent in his prejudces TO
be a safe adviser He is too variable in his po-
litiGal course to be generally followed. With
abilities an orator and writer of u high order
he seems to lick the steadiness needed for per
manent influence. When he followed of the
Greeley circus one avOwed motive was his dis
like of General Grant, whom be belabOrcd with
all his force all through the campaign rs inef-
fectually then as now. If he were now an oppo-
ucnt of Cleveland he would delight in depicting
the latter as the tool of the Albany lobbyists,
Manning and Thompson, and. would hiss with
scoru rs he showed how Cleveland had signed
the infamous bills to pay the thrice-dishonored
demands of the old Tweed ring. He
would hold him up as the fucile tool of
the Metropolitan Elevated Railroad Company,
rObbng the people of New York of ) cents each
time they rode in the cars of that corpulcnt mo-
nopoly; and he would show that his veto of the
cheap-iare bill was given to gain the support
of 1ilden, the principal stockholder for the
Presidential nomination. He would blister him
for refusing to rescue the children in the orphan
asyums of the State from the slavery of con
tract labor and for listening to the street-car