Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-06-09
Latest Thing in Combinations Comes
from Europe.
TO RECOGNIZE PRINCE OF MONACO
Formed to Present Him with Statue
for Services.
FAMED AS PATRON OF SCIENCE
In Politics He is Regarded as French
Ambassador.
KAISER TAKES UNPOPULAR STEP
Monarch of Great Gaming Establish
ment Not In Favor in Germany's
CapitaI-Rendered DiplO-
matte Service.

MONTE CARLO, June s-Cspet he
latest thing in syndicates is a s. licate
Of kings, which has been gotten together
by the German emperor. The object of its
formation was to present to the Prince of
Monaco his statue in recognition of his
service to science II is to be erected in
the Museum of Deep Sea Exploration.
erected by the prince of Monaco near Monte
Carlo. The money for this monument has
been raised by the kaiser and the other
sovereigns of Europe. The execution Of
tho monument was entrusted to NJ Denys
Peuch the celebrated French sculptor. 1t
represents Prince Albert on the bridge
of his yacht, his submarine glasses in his
! hand looking thoughtfully out into the
distance.
| The news that the kaiser has taken a
leading part in the erecting of this monu-
meHt has not given much pleasure in Ber-
lin, where the prince OF Monaco happens
not TO be very popular. In political circles
It is considered that the prince is simply
an underpaid French ambassador. and that
he devotes his whole influence with the
emperor (which happens to be considerable
whenever the kaiser happens to have
feeling Of loneliness) to furthering French
interests. In church circles (which in Ber-
lin means the entourge of the empress) the
fashion in which the prince earns the
! enormous revenues Of which he disposes
! are not approved, while the old Prussian
aristocracy is inclined to look down upon
prince who is the stipendary of the Blanc
/ family and the Socete des Bains de Mer
de Monte Carlo. The latter harmless sound
| ing name is the offlcial title of the COM
pany which runs the gambling establish
ment.
Good Place to Gamble.
It is probable that the prince would
reply that 1t was not he who created the
present state of affairs, but that he sue
ceeded to 1t as heritage. He might also
declare that people will gamble and that
they had better do It at Monte Carlo,
where the honesty with which the tables
are run is above suspicion. than to do it
in elandestine fashion m the tripoisl
OF the Riviera or BeiEfain. The SasSihcei
that the prince OF Monaco ig asked to
make In the name OF morality is con-
siderable He draws revenues amounting
to several millions Of francs year from
the establishment Of NJ. Blanc, and with
out these gambling establishments the rev.
enues OF his tiny principality would be
nil. Then his subjects pay no taxes. and
their morality is looked after by their
being forbidden to enter into the gambling
rooms except one day year. when they
| (and they only on that day. are given the
! privilege OF a fiutter at the tables. The
! gambling establishment Is. of course,
purely speculative arrangement run on
commercial lines and run In such a
fashion that it automatically extracts some
/ thing like S5OOo,oO0 annually from the
pockets of the general public.
The prince of Monaco is really a great
friend OF the French government he
! perhaps considers this a wise policy, since
so many of his patrons come from Paris
or even though they may be foreign to
Paris and Monte Carlo nevertheless spend
l several months of the year at the French
capital. At any rate it appears as though
he often acts as an intermediary with
other sovereigns, with whom his position
as reigning prince puts him socially
on a footing OF equality. During the
/ Dreyfus case he acted the intermediary
between the kaiser and the French gov
ernment and furnished the latter with
proofs of the innocence Of Captain Dreyfus
interested in Dreyfus Case.
The prince is perhaps the only man in
all Europe who knows the truth concern
ing that extraordinary drama. Others
have had the advantage of sidelights only
and could only venture guess The prince
OF Monaco was in the thick and was en-
abled to take a fair and a judi sial view
of all these matters, affecting as they did
the French as well as the Germans, the
Hebrews ana the anti-Hebrews He was
the last person whom M. Felix Faure saw
1t was half an hour after the prince OF
Monaco left ;he Elysee that Faure wis
struck by that apopleptic stroke which car
ried him on The prince had just returned
from Berlin and the communication which
he brought the president of the republic
in regard 20 the Dreyfus afrair was such
that NJ. Felix Faure saw that It would be
impossible to resist the demand for a re-
vision The president OF the republic was
however, menaced by one of the anti Drey-
! fus leaders a member OF the Chamber and
! the owner OF a powerful newspaper, with
certain revelations OF a scandalous nature
into his Cthe president's) family II he dared
TO make any move 10 have the sentence
of captFin Dreyfus revised These reve-
iations ala not AFFECT the president directly.
but concerned a relative by marriage. but
| all the same the scandal would have been
I great II was the terrible dilemma IN
which he found himself that brought about
the second apopleptic stroke 10 which he
/ succumbed. So bitter were the quarrels he
tween the Dreyfus and the anti-Dreyfus
parties just about that time that there
were even Wild rumors afost 10 the effect
that he committed suicide rather than face
the crisis which he saw existed.
Since then the prince OF Monaco has
again put his good ofices at the disposal
OF the French and German governments
He has done hts best TO smooth the
Morocco embrogiio This has earned for
him. among other things, the order OF
the Black Eagle.