The citizen., 1913-06-20

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a scandal i- not dua alone to the rarity
& u graft cases in that country to The
a z fact that .t touches her IN her most sen
- sltlve. T. "a .---tha army. 1t is due partly
I5 TO tle fact tiat the Krlpp establishment
{& has come - be looked upon as nation
~ al institution. and that every German
- - has been immensely proud OF il as one
of the glor.es OF the FathorIand.
And now 10 discover that this great industry
aas stopped 10 The Drbing of o,fcials-a fact ad-
mitted by The Erupp firm after the charge had
been made In the reichstag-aud tha- il had been
supplying French news spapers with material for
War-scare articles so as 10 induce the German
government 70 buy more armament frc'o the
KruIps. is more 70 Germany than scandal Il
Is a catastrophe
The charges We're made in the reichs-ag by DIT
Lebkuecht the Socialist deputy and in the col
Bmns Of the Norwaerts, the Socialist newspaper
Il is a coincidence that it was that newspaper
which ten wears ago printed another scandalous
story about the KrupDs which caused the death
OF the then head OF the works Friedrich Alfred
Krupp
1t was impossible 10 refute him. because the
minister Of war. Gen on Heeringen. vas obliged
10 admit thru and there that inquiry was going
which had already revealed that one Of The
krupp officials had broed officers to reveal GER
tain informal ton. The following day the Krupps
tbeir representatives iu Berlin had maintained
friendly relations" with their former comrades"
of the war department for the purpose OF obtain
ing business Information" and hal bestowed
small present 'or c=-ala ar6-r officials
1t was on Friday t1a, Lie5alecht exploded his
bomb and forced Won ilserUsen TO reveal that
secret iEGsiy ana en- Sa--rCa. thar he Krupps
made their admission Oi bribery. On sunday the
Vorwaerts published the text Of the instructions
sent by the Deutsche Munitions und Wafenfabrik
10 its Paris agent to leave stone unturued
TO persuade some popular French newspaper to
publish statement that France intended 10 dou.
bic her orders for machine guns The object was
60 get the German government 70 order machine
guns from the Deutsche Munitions uad Waffen
iabrk
On Tuesday the popular Indignation had risen
so high that Gen. Won Heeringens pea tor sus-
pension Of judgment until his private inquiry had
done its work forgotten The budget commit
tee of the reichstag voted to apgCint a pacIameu
tary comm ssion OF inquiry into the scandal This
comri- si9u however despite the protests OF the
Socialists was not vested with power 10 send for
persons and papers
Although the Krupp works date from 1910 when
Friedrich krupp established his forge at Essen, it
his son. Alfred Krupp, who was The real
founder OF the industry Friedrich died practical
y bankrupt in 1926 leaving little more than the
secret Of his caststeel process 70 his son and it
vas 80 years before any striking results were
achieved
1870 that Friedrich Krupp purchased
small .orge IN Essen where he devoted himself
20 the problem Of manufacturing cast steel but
though the article put the market by him
In 1915 # commanded but little sale, and Tue firm
was anything but prosperous He employed only
three workmen
Alfred Krlpp was born April 26 1872 and at
the time Of his fathers death was only fourteen
years old HIS mother carried on the works until
Alfred reached his majority so that twice in the
history 0f The works have they been managed by
women. The present head of the industry is
Berth HrlpD the Granddaughter OF the woman
who became its manager in 1926.
The krupps had so little money that Alfred
his fathers death, compelled TO leave school
to assist his mother He played phenomenal
aptitude t5r The foundry business. and the works
developed with increasing rapidty after his in
GueHce was fer in their management By 1915
The firm had expanded tina, 122 workmen we're
employed
A. late as lgiS, the year in which his mother
selinqushed the sole management OF the works
into his hands, he melted the amily plate TO pay
his workmen Today the ul-hfy industry fur
nishes employment to a majority OF Tie workmeu
Of tdree cities and dozen coal and iron mining
towns The ships built from il. equipped with
lis steel ard armed with its cannon are on all
,he seas. and wherever steel is used the name OF
Krupp is known. The capital OF the atm cow is
about s60000000
Il was in lS+7 that Krupp scored his first real
success. when he made a three pounter muzze-
loading gun of cast steel At the great London
exhibition Of 1851 he exhibited solid fawless
ingot of cast steel weighing two tons thus estab-
Fishing the fact that an important firm existed in
Germany capable OF turning out samples of excel
lent workmanship The Essen works were every
where spoken of. and the output watched with
the closest interest. The manufacture oil weldess
steel tires for railway vehicles another in
yention which followed soon after
The making Of heavy ordnance which has made
the nam OF these works famous the world over
was mo- hen a prominent part of the business.
One of the first large orders he got for firearms
came four years after the London exhibition. when