The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-03
BY LA MARauIsE DE FoNTENoY

T T ERE in America private societies
II formed by weil-meaning. but
i L sometimes wrong headed. citi-
2ens for the special purpose of
compelling those in authority to toe
the mark. and to detect. expose and
secure the punishment OF official neg
lisence and honesty-societies such
as that. with which the Rev. DR.. Park
hurst has identified himself in New
Iork-have extended their inquisitOrial
activity from .the mere ordinary po-
liccmen to magistrates, district attor-
neys. Judges, and even to Senators and
Governors, In Scandinavia they haze
gone q step further.
At Copenhagen this Parkhurst society
bears the title OF the Home Mission
and, its very energetic president is a
who is likewise the responsible pub
Usher and editor OF the organ OF the
society, which appears daily. as the
brisSeiis5 Das6iad ahe ghri s
ciety make It their business to investi-
gate. not only the official behavior of
those in authority and occupying posi-
lions of rank and dignity, but also to
examination.
Lately they have actually brought
the reignins family within the sphere
of their operations. ard have insti-
tuted an extraordinary system OF eS-
ponage in the households OF the King
and Queen and OF the royal princes and
prlncesses. Not only have the chill
dren and nephews and nieces of the
King been Swallowed every where by
| private detectives, employed BY the
| Home Mission, but attempts have even
been made by the latter TO engage the
services of people, in the intimate
handsome pecuniary OFFERS having
| been made to those particular gentle
men and ladies OF the royal house
| hold who arc known to be in some
l DTS. .ir@g h n
| instances the money was accepted:
| with the knowledge and consent OF
| the princes. In order to secure evidence
| of the fact that the Home Mission was
court to betray their royal employers.
| Prince Harald, the one-time suitor for
the hand of Queen Wilhelmine of Hol-
| Hand, and who Just year ago mar
| Holstein- Glucksburg, niece of the
| Kaiserin, has been particularly hound
ed by the agents OF the Home Mis-
| sion, and finally matters reached such
tervened in the person OF Premier
Zahle, who IS also Minister Of Jus
tiee.
Premier Zahle cannot be suspected
i of any subserEiency to the reiGning
4 family. He is the most advanced rad
lical who has ever held Office in Dem
/ mark, and when he formed the pres
4 ent Cabinet, he stipulated that none
of it's members should wear uniforms
1 that none Of them should be Obliged
| to accept any orders OF knishthood:
THAT no titles OF nobility should be
! granted by the crown to any one while
1 the administration lasted. and that the
grant Of decorations should be re,
i stricted to military and naval men and
!. Foreigners. The ministry has even
gone SO far as to publicly express IT.
Self in favor of the abolition of all no.
hillary honors. Yet in spite of Pre-
u mier Zahles democracy, he realizes
; that princes and princesses OF the
blood are Just as much entitled &c
privacy as ordinary citizens. and that
n persecution by private detectives
and an espionage which would not be
tolerated II the victims thereof were
everyday people, are equally inadmts-
q sible where the Kings family is con
, earned. Accordingly the Prime Min
ister has caused 1t to be officially an
; nounced in the administration organ
/ II he .PoIitiken," that in his capacity a:
Minister OF Justice he has instructed
the chief of the copenhagen police ane
Tho public prosecutor to inaugurat'
$ not a. private. but a. perfectly publl'
! inquiry into the activities Of Pasto'
: Mathiesen and the Home Mission. II
G the matter of the reigning house, ant
4 especially Prince Harald, with the n
tention of proceeding crlminall'
. AGAINST the pastor. the Home Mission
n and against the Daily Christian. Tn