Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-05-31
WILL HONOR MEMORY
OF LATE CARL SCHURz
PLAN is TO ENDOW IN STATE
VARSITY A PROFESSORSHIP
WdtertoWn Should Be Especially
Interested in the Movement, as
This is Where He Made His
Home in Pioneer Ddys-High-
est ExemplifiCdtion of Patriotism.

The Carl SchurZ Memorial aSsoci-
alton is determined to do honor to the
memory of the former Watertown
citizen, who won his way to the hearts
of the American people. Mayor Null
berger is in receipt of the following
letter from Erich C. Stern, of Mil
waukee, secretary OF the association:
"Last November Mr.. Robert Wild,
the former secretary, wrote you some
what concerning the proposed Schurz
Memorial IN Wisconsin. In reply you
sent Mr.. Wild list of names of
Watertown gentlemen who we're inter-
ested in this movement. The time
has now arrived when these gentlemen
will have an opportunity Of giving
concrete expression to their interest.
"After great deal of preliminary
work, the Schurz Memorial movement
has so far progressed III the city OF
Milwaukee that we have a large local
committee actually at work securing
funds in the city. We meet every
week. and over $1,000 have been
subscribed here.
ave have not left out of sight the
fact that the state at large must aid
materially to bring our plan to fruition.
The proposition is that local COM
miutees shall now be organized in all
the larger cities of the state to prose-
cute the campaign for funds in their
respective comm unIties. l am there
tore writing to you as we'll as to
Messrs. Viebahn, Wertheimer and
Voss to request you to call a meeting
Of likely persons and organized Wa
tertown committee.
am sending you under separate
cover sample copies Of our subscrip-
tion blanks and of our pamphlets of
which we have just sent out four
thousand IN Milwaukee.
1t would be we'll for you to begin
your campaign by sending out num-
Der of these pamphlets, and otherwise
securing publicity. We will send you
both the pamphlets and the subscrip-
ton blanks at your request. Five
thousand dollars might, l suppose, be
expected from Watertown.
although the said pamphlets prob
ably sets forth the full scope of the
aims of the Schurz Memorial assocIa-
ton of Wisconsin, | should like to
draw to your attention the double
appeal which the plan of the pro
posed professorshlp makes on our
citizens. Watertown, in particular,
need not be told why it would be
eminently appropriate to commemorate
Carl Schurz in Wisconsin. But on
the other hand, the carryingout of our
plans would advance tire interests of
our state University in field, which
probably only private enterprise could
secure. We should therefore, be able
to rely upon the pride of all Wisconsin
citizens for their great State Unlver
sity, as we'll as upon their desire to
commemorate one Of the greatest of
their former fellow citizens.
81 hope may soon get a favorable
reply from you, and throughout the
campaign we ought to keep in con-
slant communication with one another,
as this is the only way in which the
statewide movement can be co-ordi-
mated. But in appealing to the state
at large, we must do more than ask
for money. We must have these
loca. committees to do local work,
because this can not be undertaken
practically from Milwaukee.