The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-10-15

fAlth1ul DOE-CZar Guarded by
observation-disclosures Care.
1T is not because, but despite, the pre-
icdutiOnary measures taken for their
safety that monarchs usually live to a.
ripe old age said d prominent diplomat
70 New York Press reporter the other
day IN the course Of a discussion of EN-
press Elizab eth's assassination. 1.-THE in
'ternational espionage kept up by all gov
ernmentS to discover and thwart regi-
cidal plots makes confidants O, many
whom 1t would be policy to steer clear
from Bismarck used to say: Decent
people don't write for me- The same
characterization applies to the police
helps the cabinets are bound to employ
Anarchism, as have studied it in Europe
IS q disease that, like smallpox in the
elehteenth century. enjoys great jumps.
Now 1t attacks a Russian grand duchess
VI again 1t attacks a of toll, next a uni
Vcrs1ty professor turns cranky, a half
dncated, pamphlet-nourished good-for-
nOthlng follows suit. All these people
nave their connections; they influence
many others. I never saw an anarchist
who did not possess the gift of CAB to a
remarkable degree. Now, consider that
the police force at the disposal of the
european governments is 100000 head
strong. Most of the men employed hav
their confidants, too. When king in.
.'',"o ~ take d drlVe IN MS capital the
police of the district through which he
passes get Two or more houts' notice to
prepare Now, if there is a Judas among
them, he has ample time to betray his
master. And If the men are straight, the
measures they are. told to adopt are as
many pointers for miscreant who may
DC on watch for chances to pass by, Take
the case of the emperor of GERMANY. He
is as well guarded as the sultan or the
English crown jewels or the shah of
Persia"
Inc reporter sugge sted that part of the;
fngllsh crown jewels were once stolen,
ana that the brother of the present shah
was pstoled two years ago.
II Know said the diplomat "Yet T
repeat William is as well protected as
he person and articles mentioned When;
King Edwards crown was corrailed
everybody said incpossible:' when the!
aews of his Persian majesty's sudden
taking off came the European police
would not believe it, for had he not been
living within human wall of bodyguards
and dignitaries?
Fifteen hundred persons are lying
awake nights in Berlin and its neighbour
hood to protect the kaiser's life and
health, and TO see that his path runs |
smoothly. These l.5CO arc servants of
oil degrees; some are styled .excelency,'A
ard others are mere bootblacks of for !
ture OF the regular and special police,
the secret service men in the foreign
office, the garrison and the army in gen
eral l will not speak here. Yet despite
this host of watchdogs, the Kaiser feels
secure nowhere but in Potsdam where
the castle is guarded by 500 picked men
in barracks connected with the palace,
and when the royal park Is patrolled by
numerous sentinels, who have orders to
shoot at any suspicious person who can
not, or will not, give an account Of him.
self. Surprising an assassin, under some
disguise or another-he might break
through the line by presenting a fraud
ulent permit from the court marshaPs
office naming him purveyor or candidate
for situation-supposing, I say, man had
penetrated to the inner circle where the
monarch dwells. To reach the kaiser he
must pass muster of the doorkeeper and
half a dozen stalwart lackeys at the inner
portals. Next he will encounter a room
full of messengers, all armed to the teeth.
These men, usually full dozen, are yet
separated from his majesty by two more
chambers, all Of them opening into one
another, and having no entrance from
the corridor. These messengers belong to
various branches of the service, and, &C.
cOrdng to their arms, are provided with
horses bicycles waiting outside.
"Of course, it would be like taking ones
life into ones hands to try to pass these
soldiers, but let us assume for arguments
sake that it is done. In the next room sit
the kaiser's valet, his\ body chasseur and
two funkics, all big, strapping fellows,
ex-army men, who would look upon
fight with an intruder as a streak of good
fortune. Now we can go into his males
tvs room? Yes, but for the two adjutants
who are in the ante-chanber in full uni
forms, swords at their sides, pistols handy
and otherwise ready for every emergency.
Those PotSdam arrangements for
guarding the royal person are observed
at all the courts of Europe In his palace,
at least monarch seems to be reason
.,hl tod nj 81
psrises The dangerous part of the king
business Is in outings. ceremonies and eX.
ercises of all sorts. At the beginning of
his reign the kaiser nagnanimously de-
cided to dispense with the public police
service. Next day the president of the
police and the entire officers CORPS re-
signed. If we are not allowed to watch
over your majesty in our own way we
cannot be responsible for your safety
they said The Prussian court has aban-
doned bodyguards, except for ceremonious
occasions, but the kaiser keeps an elite
corps of $50 mounted men about his per-
son all the time. They are called body
gendarmes and, like the feldjaeger,' are
really nothing more nor less than royal
fOOtmen. paid out of the peoples, instead
of out of the kaisers treasury. When the
kaiser goes riding, two body gendarmes,
one or two adjutants and two grooms,
accompany him, but hundred or more
gendarmes or feldjaegers in citizens dress
for suspicious characters and to be at
hand when necessary. .-.. %. uAE
Life preservers and spies in everyday
garb. that's the proper idea,'' continued
the diplomat. It's the love of show and
trappings that has killed many mon
arch. Alexander H. made himself the tar
get of Nihilists because he insisted upon
riding between the captain of his body
guard and the chief of police. The first
ones sleigh preceded the 'Poizemeister's'
vehicle, always closely followed by his
majesty's. To make doubly sure the car
dispensed with the imperial livery, but
how could that deceive any one when the
captain of the bodyguard and the police
president insisted upon wearing the strik-
ing panoply of their rank? Perhaps !
shouldn't say that they insisted. Perhaps
1t was courtly usage that compelled them
to appear in the emperor's suite decked
out with barbaric sDlendor.
1.-THE German emperor has adopted a
new scheme-new because it's old enough
to be thought new. AS a general thing
he drives at breakneck pace and to facili-
tate the utmost swiftness the horses are
harnessed close to the carriage. Fast
driving may foil assassins in some in
stances, but it is not always permissible,
and, moreover, the laundering after APP
Il plause, the desire to appear stately or a
i king well beloved dictate the occasional
abandonment of this precaution.
"A month or so before Carnot was as.
sassinated the Berlin police got wind that