Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-03-30

iiineiy unconscious when the streets OF
Constantinopie or of Erzeroum are puddled
with Armenian blood. But the Yildiz Kiosk
has good Christians in it's service who do
all the explaining and palliation that is
needed. The English, who, with the Ger
mans, have been the only friends the red
sultan has in Europe, are kept constantly
up to the mark by Sir Ashmead Bartlett.
His books. his lectures. his numerous
articles in magazines and newspapers. his
speeches in the English house of commons
are mine Of PhiIo-Turkism. The United
States. by the way. swarms with Turkish
secret service agents Of all social degrees.
So many unfortunate subjects of the ''Shad
ow of God" fly over the ocean to get,
often by fraud, papers of American citizen
ship with which to return and live unmo-
Tested at home that the government of
Turkey maintains in our big cities more
spies and other agents than anywhere else
on the globe.
These dignitaries often English speaking
Christians. receive handsome sums for de-
nouncing all Armenian, Greek. Arab, Sy-
rian and Persian subjects of Turkey who
belong to revolutionary societies In the
United States or who are even readers OF
the little plain-spoken Syrian sheet pub
lished in the downtown oriental quarters
of New York Once denounced, these peo-
United States; they need never hope to
live TRANQUILITY In the east After week
in Turkey they are thrown into prisons on
SOME trumped up charge, and they never
breathe the free air again.
Working to the Same End.
These denunciators are at the lowest
rung of the ladder. But there are others
doing similar work In a much higher grade
1t is their business to influence public opin-
ion among both Turkish subjects and pure
blooded Americans in favor of the sublime
porte. A body of them runs Turkish
journal circulating among the orientais;
others. established In business or enjoying
an apparent leisure, are secretly working
in social and political circles to the same
end Chicago still remembers the scandal
that led to broken glass in cafe In Dear
born street some few years ago, when q
rich Syrian merchant was with difhcuity
prevented from sticking knife into
compatriot whom, as he loudly proclaimed.
he could prove to be receiving slO.ooo
year for experimenting the sultan s DIRTY
work for the western states.
The fact is that, with a few exceptions
in the very highest ranks Of the profess
sfon'' the secret service agents or every
country on the European size OF the AT.
lantic make spying an essential part OF
the days work. People who were In Paris
when the Dreyfus case was thickening say
that as complication followed on complfca-
ton and one country after another began
to be drawn into the affair-Germany,
Italy Russia England-there was scarcely
a distinguished foreigner in the city who
felt at ease. Every one was afraid that he
would be denounced as having been In
touch with the alleged traitor, so firm was
the conviction of the wide scope Of the in
ternational secret service system
Boer and English.
To take a more recent example: as the
Beers have had DR.. Leyds to represent
them officially for years in Europe, so since
the war broke out the English have had
their unofficial agents striving to under
mine the doctors work.
In Paris there Is a well-known society
woman who has long since been discover
ed to be acting, and for money, as an En-
glish agent in the dissemination Of the
English view OF the matter. And at the
exposition peace conference every speaker
took 1t for granted that Yves Guyot, the
editor of the Paris Steele" was acting
definitely under the instructions of Down
ing street in his articles and public
speeches His is absolutely the only def
nitely pro-English paper in Paris at this
moment, and he the only public man that
defends the English action. 1t would be
interesting to know how many English
half-pence he receives IN return for the
numerous French kicks that are lavished
on him.
Get Big Wages.
Most Of these unofficial diplomatists are
exceedingly well paid. They have to be
people of very marked ability, and they
must maintain considerable state or their
work would fail pitiably. Some five or six
years ago a German baroness died sudden
ly in Paris. When her papers were ram
sacked by the commissary of police 1t was
discovered that she had been a secret
service agent for her country. From her
diary and account books 1t appeared that
she had received from her government $500
a month, the rent of a superb apartment
on the Avenue Friedland. by the Arc de
Triomphe. and the keep of her two-horse
brougham, with cocher and valet de pied,
besides generous travelling expenses when
ever she was requested to visit Berlin.
In addition to this very sufficient wage
there was noted also the receipt of sums
varying from $500 to $500. entered as "spe-
cial recompense for some ex-
ceptionally brilliant stroke OF diplomacy or
some more than usually valuable item OF
information. The disclosures attracted a
great deal of attention at the time, and
practically forced out of Paris society one
Of the old lady's nephews. who had mar
ried the daughter of an fllustrious ducal
house
Thus the business has it's drawbacks 1t
Is one of the pleasantest Of trades as long
as things go well, but woe be to the unfor- |
tunate agent who gets found out. That
means ruin and shame.