Carl Schurz, The Great Gerhan Advocate Of Sound Money

Cari Sehurz is a natlve of Prussla and wag born Ín 1829. He studled at the gymnasium of Cologne and entered the Uuiversíty of Bonn In 1846, wliere he began hls journallsflc career by assistïng a professor in the piiblieaiion of a liberal pappr. Mr. Scuurz was, while yet a young inau, a member of the Frankfurt Parllameut, which uttempted to take adyantage of the polltlcal aud social disturbances tbat followod lu tlie wake of tho rovolutionary movement of 384.S In ï'rance, to reform the politioal system of Gerinany. He was a radical of the Kadieals and after the Parliament disbanded ignoruinlously, he was forced to lëaye the country, and came to America in 1852. He is not to be regarded aa au exile now, for the party to whlch he adhered has attained the most important objects of the reformers of 1848 and is today in control of the Germán empire. His ürst public speecli in EnzlUU was delivered in 1858, belng an invective agalnst Douglas during the Douglas-Lincola contest of that date. He pntered the arniy In 1SU1, aud before the eud of tlie war had riseu to the rank of major-geueral of volunteers. Ho was In the battles of Buil Run, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Chattauooga. Slnce the war Cari Scíinrz has been an activo factor iu the journalistic and political life of the natlon. He founded the Detroit Post in lSüü. and was eleeted ünitcd States senator from Missouri in 18UÍ). }Io was secretary of: the interior under Hayos, introduclng civil service in the department of the interior, and furtherlns many Indian reforms. He was editor of tho New York Evening Post from 1881 to 1884, and la now editor of Harper's Weekly.