Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-07-11

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ERMANY'S excitement over the Krupp
scandal is not due alone to the rarity
of graft cases in that country or to the
r fact that it touches her in her most SEN
NJ sitIve place-the army. II is due partly
10 the fact II at the Krupp establishment
III has come TO be looked upon as a nation
NA al institution, and that every German
- has been immensely proud OF 1t as one
], the glories Of the Fatherland.
Ana now to discover that this great industry
"a stooued to the bribing of oficials-a fact ad-
-,t,,d BY the Krupp firm, after the charge had
,..n made in the reichstag-and that 1t had been
.uoolyng French newspapers with material for
vsrscare articles, so as to induce the German
government to buy more armament from the
Trupus Is more to Germany than a scandal. 1t
n A catastrophe.
The charges were made in the reichstag by DIR.
tlehknecht the Socialist deputy, and In the col
aims OF the Vorwaerts. the Socialist newspaper.
MI coincidence that 1t was that newspaper
which ten years ago printed another scandalous
story about the Krupps. which caused the death
a. the then head Of the works. Friedrich Alfred
Kupp
n was impossible to refute him, because the
Minister Of war, Gen. Won Heeringen, was obliged
70 admit then and there that an inquiry was going
an which had already revealed that 'one Of the
Knpp ofhcials" had bribed officers to reveal GER
tain Information The following day the Krupps
tssued statement in which they admitted that,
thslr representatives in Berlin had maintained
friendly relations" with their former comrades
Of the war department for the purpose of obtain
ing business information" and had bestowed
anal present ION certain under officials
II was on Friday that Liebknecht exploded his
bomb and forced Won Heeringen to reveal that
secret inquiry and on Saturday that the Krupps
made their admission of bribery. On Sunday the
vorwserts published the text of the instructions
sent by the Deutsche Munitions und Waffenfabrik
70 its Paris agent to leave no stone unturned"
to persuade some popular French newspaper to
publish a statement that France intended to dou-
be her orders for machine guns. The object was
TO get the German government to order machine
guns from the Deutsche Munitions und Wafen
hbrik
On Tuesday the popular indignation had risen
20 high that Gen. Heeringen's plea for sus
pension of judgment until his private inquiry had
done its work was forgotten. The budget commit
Tee Of the reichstag voted to appoint parliament
hry commission of inquiry into the scandal This
commission. however. despite the protests of the
Socialists, was not vested with power to send for
persons and papers
Although the Krupp works date from 1910. when
Friedrich Krupp established his forge at Essen, it
vas bis son, Alfred Krupp, who was the real
founder of the industry Friedrich died practical
H bankrupt in 1926. leaving little more than the
secret Of his cast-steel process to his son. and 1t
vas 30 years before any striking results were
achieved
II was in 1910 that Friedrich Krupp purchased
small forge in Essen, where he devoted himself
10 the problem Of manufacturing cast steel, but
though the article was put on the market by him
IN 1875 Il commanded but little sale, and the firm
was anything but prosperous. He employed only
three workmen.
Alfred Krupp was born April rs. 1912. 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 Of the works have they been managed by
women. The present head of the industry Is
Bertha Krupp. the granddaughter OF the woman
Who became it's manager in 1926.
The Krupps had so little money that Alfred. on
his fathers death. was compelled to leave school
70 assist his mother. He displayed phenomenal
aptitude for the foundry business, and the works
developed with increasing rapidity after his In
naence was felt in their management. BY lS4S
Tie arm had expanded SO that 122 workmen were
employed
IA late as 1S4S. the year in which his mother
fsincushed the sole management of the works
INTO his hands, he melted the family plate to pay
MS workmen. Today the mighty industry fur
ashes employment to a majority Of the workmen
Of three cities and dozen coal and iron mining
owns. The ships built from 1t, equipped with
ns steel and armed with its cannon, are on ak
NE seas and wherever steel is used the name oil
Arupp is known. The capital of the firm now IL
about ss0OOO,OOO
II was in 1S47 that Krupp scored his first rea
success. when he made a three FOUNDER muZzle
0aoing gun Of cast steel. At the great London
szhhition OF 1851 he exhibited a solid hawless
neot Of cast steel weighing two tons, thus 'estab
ashing the fact that important firm existed II
Sefmany capable of turning out samples of excel
Nat workmanship The Essen works were every
were spoken of. and the output watched will
'ae closest interest. The manufacture of weldlesi
"eei tires for railway vehicles was another In
'eaton which followed soon after.
Inc making OF heavy ordnance. which has made
ne name of these works famous the world over
.A not then a prominent part of the business
one Of the first large orders he got for frearm:
SDe Tour years after the London exhibition, wher