The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-02-21


and other conditions in the Dominion
with those OF their native land, and like
wise to the circumstance that the coun-
try is more sparsely peoDled.
That the Russian government should
consider it prudent to keep strict watch
on these expatriated Firms is not surpris-
ing, for of ali the races born as subjects
of the Gar they are the most intelligent,
the most weu-to-do, and above all the
most passionately attached to their ma
tive soil and to their inherited preroga-
tives and liberties. II is a singular fact
that until a year ago no Finn was ever
known to be implicated in the Nihilist
movement or in any other conspiracy
against the Car. Should they join the
revolutionists, as is feared at st. Peters
burg, the strength and Importance of the
latter will be increased a hundred fold.
OF course, it is one thing to watch po-
ntical refugees in this country and an
other to terrorize them and attempt their
lives, and while there are plenty Of peo-
pie ready to admit and believe the former
hesitation may be experienced about Civ
ing credence to the latter. But one has
only to recall the famous Parnell-Tfmes
suit in London and to remember the
crOss-examination of the English secret
agent. Major lie Caron, in order to realize
that work of the kind in which he was
engaged in watching and counteracting
the pIottings of the Clan-na-Gael and of
other advanced Irish Nationalist societies
inevitably leads to the employment of ex-
era-legal and even criminal methods.
It is merely necessary to point out that
the men employed as secret emissaries
are, as a rule as INSCRIPTIONS as they
are bold, and that any qualms of con-
science which they might feel about re-
sorting to murder would be set at rest by
the belief that they are dealing with the
enemies of their country, with people be-
yond the pale of their law, with individ-
uals, in fact, whom they. as employees of
the government, would be entitled to
shoot in extreme cases, if still in their
own country.
A Russian police agent who succeeds in
bringing about the death of some more or
less notorious Nihilist who has taken ref
fuge in the United States certainly does
not dream for one moment that he has
perpetrated any crime or done anything
else than a piece of good and loyal SER
vice to his government and to his sover-
eign.
Thus Baron Griscelli, who was at the
head of that Corsican corps Of palace po-
lice that watched over the safety of Ma
poleOn Ill, boldly admits in his published
"reminiscences that he caused one of his
agents, named Rumini, TO follow to Lon
don an Italian of the name of Zambo,
implicated in a Manzanist conspiracy to
murder the French Emperor, and that
Rumini by his (CriscelIi's) orders stabbed
the conspirator in the back TO the heart,
the body of Zambo being subsequently
found floating in the Thames. This was
one of the five analogous kniflngs upon
political conspirators who sought the life
of his master, the Emperor Napoleon.
Only a few years ago the Swiss author
tiles expelled from their country Ger
man secret police agent who, in his Gag
erness to induce German political refu-
gees TO perpetrate some ofense that
would bring them within reach Of the ex-
tradition treaty. had rendered himself
guilty of crime It is only necessary to
refer to the celebrated trial of the former
chief of the Kaiser's palace police. the in
laIHtuc baron AdHSItk III t4AtG+ AZ -I-i-
vince ones self that when engaged IN Sc
cret service men OF his type do not hest
tate at forgery OF perjury.
The Chinese physician. Dr. Sun Yat
Sen. duly naturalized British citizen
and the graduate of an American univer-
sity and Christian was Swallowed every
hour. after his three months stay In this
country. by four emissaries Of the Chi
nese government seeking an opportunity
to assssslnate him in consequence Of a
leading part which he has taken in the
reform movement at PeE-Hg. When. sub
seQUetiy. he reached Len8on he was liter
ally whisked of enc OF the most fashion
able and crowded tborougafares in broad
daylight. without leaving any trace OF his
werera bouts
L was only by chance that three weeks
later his English friends discovered that
he had been captured BY the enissaries
OF Ms government. tsat ne vas imPris-
ored in the Chinese Embassy 10 Lonion-
and that the envoy had made arrange
Tnents for his being secretly SHIPPED hack