Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-03-26
EVERYBODY Is WATCHED
THE TRAVELLER IN EUROPE is
CONSTANTLY DOGCED.
Russia Leads In the Espionage of strangers,
but Germany Is = Close Second
Nobody Is Allowed to Feel
at Ease Over There.

idea WDAL IL Is W OAIot al OAO OoPHOAsS6O
which surrounds and permeates Euro
pean society. Even those who visit
Europe little appreciate the situation,
Tor the espionage is as impalpable as 1t
is all-pervading. In Russia the spy
system is moro thoroughly organized
than in any other country, and the SER
vice is practically obligatory on every
subject of the car. He who should
fail to report anything suspicious COM
ing under his observation would him
self be suspected. Everybody is spy
on everybody, and the saying that walls
have ears is eminently true in Russia.
All the world has heard of the secret
police; but all the world does not know
that the car has even more efficient
forces of official spies in the clergy OF
the Greek church of which the car IS
the head, good deal more wor-
ship being devoted to him than to the
Almighty. The clergy are entirely at the
mercy of the car, who can remove or
suspend any one of them, however high
or low, at his mere pleasure, expressed,
as rule, through the synod. Conse-
uuently from the metropolitan to the
village pope, all of them are spies and
agents of the government. The rellg-
ious acts Of every member OF congre-
CATION are reported regularly to the
police, and converts to the orthodox
faith are especially kept under strict
oversight. The Russian authorities as
sumo that every convert is u hypocrite,
and they are probably almost right,
especially since the severe enforcement
of the anti-Jewish laws has led or COM
PEELED many CT the Hebrew faith to pre-
tend conversion to orthodoxy.
MY most amusing experience with
the Russian police was at Kharkov, in
southern Russia. My arrival seemed
to be anticipated. The driver who
took me to the hotel piled me with
questions that were ingenious and at
the same time respectful, and the land
lord appeared to take the deepest in
terest in the safe custody of my bag
gage. On coming home from walk
. through the town entered my apart
ment unexpectedly and found the land
ford and police agent rummaging my
trunk. The boniface stammered an
apology about mistake being made,
! and the police agent did not say any
. thing, but strobe out as if weighted
down with an important secret.
i I noticed that one of his pockets
r bulged considerably, and on investiga-
o ton missed copy Of Zola's novels
$ and a package Of Anticipated love let
! tiers. could have spared at least the
= novel, and had no particular objection
d to the police translating the love-let.
a tiers, but knew that the police had ex
d ceeded their authority, even as inter
n preted in Russia, SO boldly went tt
% the police office, showed my passport
and made an imperative demand fol
my property, at the same time threat
ening to complain to the French minis
. ter. The property was returned.
70 With all the boosted freedom of Ger
y many espionage there is not much be
3 hind that of Russia. Everybody il
S, Germany, except the socialists, want
N to curry favor with the authorities, ant
,r nearly everybody aspires to publ
:. Office of some kind, however petty.
" you want to find out the reach OF tn
III Kaiser's arm through his subordinates
n just go into a hotel, and in hearing G
it anybody, perhaps German suppose
n friend or acquaintance, make a remar
nv derogatory to the government, or re
mark that by some stretch may be cor
~ strued as derogatOry. You will b
IN pretty sure to hear from the police b.
fore the day is out, and lucky to escaI
with q mere warning to leave tow
nut The absolute dread in which many
* the Germans live of being spied upo
.;a by each other can be imagined from 8
!, incident that came under my observ
ton at Mannheim.
eo A window was broken in the hou
'c- of man holding petty clerkship
ro- the government offices. While the hu
ir- band was at work the wife hired Il
AGA glazier who happened to live neares
to put in a new pane OF glass. WIZ
,u' the husband returned he inquired wi
I'm had put in the glass. and upon hearil
lid the name, he at once knew that Il
to plazier was a socialist. Fearing tn
The the employment OF socialist to
of even such small job might bring hi
into odium with his superiors,
CO. fastened to break the glass again. a
On sent for O glazier of orthodox polite
standing to do the mending.
It is the intense struggle for ext
as ence. and the aspiration for Office a
5 is it's pittance, that places vast army
the volunteer spies at the government 81
=, vice in every continental country. /
"' sides, European governments, inclr
h"n ing the English. never fail to rewa
ne the spy for valuable information.
the matter how treacherously it may
bort obtained.
90 In France espionage is not obnoxit
II and aggressive, as in Russia. and
some degree in Germany. But tn
geo are all watching you--the coachm'
the the barber, the waiter, the concierl
lore They are all anxious to have their lii
,nse story to tell the police; not exac