The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-27
Object Is to Increase Dividends
Of Their Firms and Double
ss.s@ Price of Shares.

BF LA MARQpISE DIE FONTENOY.
I II A. GENTS bCovocateurs"--Angl
Il" ~ provocative agents-such az the
krupps ard the Deutscher Mu-
nltions,uid waeffenfabrik, of which tho
multi millionaire Prince Donnersmarck
Is the president mid chief stockholder.
have been charged by the Reichstag
at Berlin with employing. TO create
war scAres at home and abroad. SO as
to increase the dividends OF tho firms
concerned, and to double the price OF
their shares are nothing new in poll
ties. True, there are compar atively
few .commercialtpor Industrial enter
prises possessed of the means and the
( power to accomplish anything OF
profitable character by such methods.
But statesmen and government Of
ficials with large secret funds at their
disposal have not hesitated TO have
recourse to provocative agencies.
Thus, history and contemporary
memoirs make no secret OF the fact
that from 1866 until 1870. Prince Bis
marck had recourse to manoeuvres. OF
this nature. TO inname French opinion
against Germany. thoroughly realizing
that 1t would need war OF Invasion
declared by France, and in which
France would be the first to throw
all the score OF sovereign states Of.
Germany, for purposes of defense, thus
rendering their amalgamation into the
German empire, as now constituted,
possible. The money which he en-
ployed for the purpose was the in
come of the private fortune of the ex-
King OF Hanover. and which he de-
soribed as the reptile fund. and plenty
OF 1t was devoted to the fostering of
chauvfnism. that is to say, anti-Ger-
man propaganda in the French press:
The Pole Berezowski. who shot at
Emperor Alexander H. when driving
back from Longchamp To the Tuileries
with Napoleon III. in 1867, was nothing
but an unconscious Instrument in the
hands OF Bismarck's provocative
agents. Bismarck feared already then
the danger to Germany OF an alliance
between Russia and F'rance-a dan
ger which has since then become
fait. urcompi He believed that II an
attempt were made In Paris upon the
Cars life BY ono OF those Polish rev.
olutionists who had found refuge In
France. the Russian reigning house,
the Russian government and the Rus
sian nation would all become go pre-
JUDGED against that country as to
render an alliance impossible for many
years To come.
The bullets OF the Pole injured no
one save the horse OF one of the
cquerries. Bat they accomplished the
object OF those who had ins,igateo
poor crazy BcreZowski to do the deed.
For the Emperor Of Russia lsft- Paris
with his sons. without any further de-
ley his visit having proved complete
failure from e French point of view:
while II Russia refused to lift nn-
ger f,I behalf OF France in 1870. even
dtpionaticaily. 1t was owing TO tin.
remembrance OF the attempt made
upon tile life of the Gar when in ,he
French capital.
Agents provocatcurs OF the all-pow-
crful and wealthy Pan-Heilen!c secret
society were responsible FOR the
troubles in Crete. eliminating in the
war between Turkey and Greece or
seventeen years ago. Similar meth
DDS were nsed by the Pan-Slav So
ciety OF Moscow, TO promote the Bal
kan instruction IN 1876. which forced
the Russian government into a reluc-
tant war against Turkey In 1877.
The frontiers OF number OF Euro
pean powers. both in Asia and africa,
have been repeatedly extended,
through troubles artificially created
through provocative agencies on the
further side OF the border line. by mil
it;try commanders DESTROYS Of such
promotion rewards and laurels gen
orally, as are not TO be culled in the
piping times OF peace. Finally. those
secret service officers and police. en-
ployed in political work and more es-
pecially IN the protection o. rulers
from assassination, have not hcsitated
TO frequently foster. and even origin
ate. plots against the state and
against the Amounted of the Lord
through agents provocateurs, In order
to secure advancement and the good
Will OF those whom they We're engaged
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