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FROM THE HONORABLE J. STERLING MORTON.

San Francisco, Cal., February 23, 1899.

Gustav H. Schwab, Charles Stewart Smith, William Bayard Cutting, Charles C. Beaman, Hubert Cillis, William Jay Schieffelin, A. Von Briesen, George Wilson,

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Committee of Arrangements.

Gentlemen: Your communication of February 6th, informing me of the proposed celebration of the seventieth birthday of Hon. Carl Schurz on the second of next month, by a banquet to be given by some of his admirers and friends, has just reached me here in San Francisco, and I hasten to express to you my sincere regret that I cannot be present in compliance with your kind invitation.

No American in our day or generation has more thoroughly comprehended the duties of citizenship in this republic. In every relation of life, Mr. Schurz has, by example, as well as precept, taught that duties as well as privileges rest upon every citizen.

Unlike many adopted citizens of the United States, Mr. Schurz always realizes that duties to the Republic are co-equal with the privileges which the Republic bestows.

In honoring Mr. Schurz, and in congratulating him upon his arrival in splendid health at the seventieth year of his useful life, we tell the youth of this country