The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-03-03
SCHURZ CONGRATULATED
MANY MESSAGES FROM ADMIRERS IN
GERMANY AND At HOME./
Celebration of the Noted Independ-
ent's Sevcutieth Birthday-Letter
from Grover Cleveland.

NEW YORK. March 1.-The SEVENTEEN
anniversary of the birth of Carl Schurz was
celebrated to-day. Congratulatory letters
and kilograms were received in great num-
bers. Through the day close friends called
to offer their congratulations in person. A
cablegram of greeting came from Prince
Herbert Bismarck and from forty of the
leading members of the German Reichstag.
and similar dispatches were received from
various parts of m and from i'm
portant cities the United States over. The
General Assembly of Missouri sent con-
gratulations, as did the Chamber of Com
merce of the State of New York, the COM
mittee on arrangements for the Philadel-
phia Schurz celebration, the Society of
Political Economy of Berlin. the survivors
of the Twenty-sixth Regiment of Wiscon-
sin, the Standard Club of Chicago. the
Technical High School of Berlin and the
military section of the German Society of
La Crosse, Wis.
A dinner complimentary to Mr.. Schurz
was given tonight at Delmonico's. Covers
were laid for four hundred. The lids of
the ice cream boxes showed a raised bust
of Mr.. Schurz in celluloid. Among those
at main table at either side of Mr.. Adams
were Mr.. Schurz. Levi p. Morton, James
c. G. Carter, Seth Low. Edward NJ. Shep-
ard, Charles s. Fairchild, Herbert welch,
William l.. Strong, William Sloan and
Alexander +. Orr. Among those who sent
letters or kilograms of regret were Grover
Cleveland and Andrew Carnegie. Mr.. Cleve-
land wrote from Princeton, N. j., in part,
as follows:
NJ Schurz's life and career teach les
sons that cannot be too often and too i'm
grandeur of disinterested public service and
the nobility OF fearless advocacy OF the
things that are right and just and safe: 1t
will be a sad day for our country when,
in the light of such an example, our people
refuse to see the best craftsmanship in
steadfast adherence to conscience In storm
as well as in sunshine. L believe that the
most confident hope of the premanency and
continued beneficience of our free %institu-
lions rests upon the cultivation by those in
trusted with public duty and among the
ranks of our cOuntrymen of the traits which
have distinguished the man whom you pro-
pose to honor
In his address, Mr.. Schurz said: II have,
doubtless. sometimes committed grave err
rors of observation or of Judgment, but I
1 have always sought to inform myself
about the things 1 had TO deal with, and
tina in my utterances on public interests L
have never said anything L did not myself
believe true. If this is the reason of your
being here, / am proud, very proud of IL,
and | may promise you that this shall be so
10 the last, and that in this respect at least
you will have a fair chance of not becoming
sorry for the honor you are doing me to-
night.
For nearly half a century I have felt my
self as a thorough American. Under the
stars and stripes my children were born. l
am to die and they are TO live. But my
faithful love for this Republic does not for
bid me to look back upon the old father
land with reverential affection-upon that
great nation whose valor has written so
many pages of the heroic pages of history
and whose thought, like a fair shining bea-
con light has so brightly illumined the
world. l am profoundly grateful to those
kind friends i'm the land of my birth who, at
this period of my life, have so warmly re-
membered me.
And now a last word which may be fit
tingly uttered on an occasion like this. L
have reached the age which may speak
from experience. and of the experiences of
my long public activity l will give you the
best. If there is any man among us who
has lost faith in democratic government-in
what Abraham Lincoln called government
of the people, for the people and by the
people. j am not that man. You will look
in vain for a people that have achieved as
much of freedom. of progress. of well-being
and happiness. as the American people have
under their institutions of democratic gov
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