Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-10-20
CARL SCHURZ'S ESSAY
HIS POLITICAL BELIEFS AND A.
PREHENSIOkS.
Man Pre-Eminent for TemperaAen-
tai Vagaries Processes Grave Fear
that Roosevelt May Prove Deficient
in Diplomacy.

that Roosevelt May Prove Dehctenf
in Diplomacy.
The venerable Carl Schurz must al
ways command from good Republlcans
the respect which members of that great
national party always pay to those VINO
have lone good service TO the country. es--
pecisliy in the day of grave peril, and Gu
the field of war.
Bur although Republicans, in estlmst-'
! ing the weight of influence to be attached
to the utterances of Mr.. Schurz, cannot
| forget nor underrate his services to the
country in times of peace as well as IN
war, they can only read his latest contri-
! button to the literature of the pres lem
! tial campaign with intense amusement
! Mr.. Schurz is at his best that is, most
amusing, in that passage of his letter
where, with an evident effort to be fair
he deplores the Temperament" of Presl--
| dent Roosevelt. He says:
| / have such faith I'm the original good
| ness OF his impulses that | deem him cspa-
| bic Of abandoning again any of the wrong
! ways he has lately TAKEN except one. Ana
| there something stands in the way for
| which he is not responstbie his tempera-
| ment, which is altogether too strong for his
| reason.
| do not deem President Roosevelt caps
BILE OF seeking an opportunity for plunginS
| the country into foreign merely to
| crafty his ambition or to give play to his
| fighting spirit But do think that when
| ever there are two ways Of deciding mat
| ter of controversy-one the slow, PATIENT
| diplomatic, peaceable way, and the other
| the short cut by the use Of force = Mr.
| Roosevelt will be temperamentaly Inclined
| to choose the short cut, and it will require
with him an uncommonly strong effort OF
| self-restraint to resist that inclination,
| which effort, il made at all, Is not always
successful
This, coming from Carl Schurz, is de-
| hcious!
The Schurz Temperament.
Among all the examples of ''tempera-
| ment" overriding good sense, reason and
calm judgment known to American poll
| tics Carl Schurz stands pre-eminent. Fer
him to look upon the sturdy, practicaE
Roosevelt, who has taken up and carried
| firmly every burden ever laid upon HIM
for Carl Schurz to look upon this man.
and drone out his doubts as to his ahif-
ity, in case of an important controversy.
| to seek the SLOW, patient, diplomatic.
peaceable way" is enough to cause mirti.
in Democratic campaign meeting in
| Iowa.
Seventy-hve years ago and half year
| more this critic of the President of the
| United States was born in Prussia He
| Joined the instruction of 1919, was ar
rested, fed to Switzerland, and came to
| these shores in 1852. He became an ar
dent Republican, and when the war OF
rebellion began he was the Americans
minister to Spain, so quickly had no
| arisen to power and influence in the larp6
of his adoption. One observes nothing
lnx1-
| career.
| And there was nothing ''slow," ether
when it came to action. He resigned hi3
position, and came back to the United
States to enter the Union army. He rose
t. the rank of major general, and after
the war was sent by Missouri. as a Re-
publican, to the United States Senate
| There was nothing slow about that
phase of the rise of Mr.. Schurz, either
/ 1t was while he was in the United
! States Senate that the fighting qualities
of Mr.. Schurz attracted national aEten-
ton. There was nothing "slow, patient.
| diplomatic or peaceable" in the ways and
means adopted by him in attacking the
| leaders of his own party He led the
movement against President Grant. pre-
| celing his second nomination and elec~
|
ness with which he fought Grants adj
ministration and strove to balk every
thing it proposed. Grant was accused
of ''militarism" and desire to upset
all the traditions of the Republic Ii
was at this time that the mugwumps
began their dismal existence, with Mr..
| Schurz as their leader in the Senate.
| Oldsters among Republicans will recall
| of tha al
| Schurz and his followers had gathered
TO hear the returns when Grant defeat
| ed Horace Greeley. 1t was then that
the Temperament" of Mr. Sehurz got the
better of him. He sat down to a piano
and pounded out the lugubrious notes of
THE Heart Bowed Down." Thence
| forth that gem of opera should have been
adopted as the mugwumps' campaign
song. But, strangely enough, it wasn't
| However, they haven't any song.
But to return to Mr. Schurz. His
temperament had the best of him until
| President Grant was succeeded by Presi-
| dent Hayes. when, from nowhere IN
| particular, Mr.. Schurz was called to be-,
| Secretary of the Interior. Probably he D..
was good Republican during the four
| years of holding Office. One can't "Son
around and call hard names in an execus
tive office, and now Mr.. Schurz had a
/ taste or two of criticism himself. His
replies to his tormentors were not de-
void OF tartness. and ginger"
A Political Chameleon.
| When he left the cabinet Mr.. Scburx
fell, like Lucifer, star of the morning
and came down to being the editor of \
New York paper-daily. it is said. known
TO the public as the New York Evening
Post. From that moment the brilliant.
| erratic, revolutionary and cantapkerosrs
| Carl Schurz remained. so far as the
public can judge Mugwump. In 1884
/ he retired from the newspaper field. hut
his recent letter shows that he is a mug
! wump still. There's more to him than,
there is to most mHgwumps. too. but his
talk about the dangers of Roosevelts~
solid Dutch-American Temperament,
affords ground so- inextinguishsbls
! laughter.
| The chameleon is not more chanzefuf
| OF color and tint than has been the mind
and course of Carl Schurz since he b.