Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-02-27

acquainted with aims and ideaIs or
the war party.
He was essentially a financier, but he
also was an associate of Admiral Won
Tirpitz. He had been sent to this
country in 1906 presumably to repre-
sent Germany a exercises in memory
of John Paul Jones. In truth he came
here, after journeys to other countries,
to learn financial and industrial con-
ditions to fit himself for exactly the
task that devolved upon him at the
time of his secret visit to this country
last year. using a Swiss passport un-
der the name of Edward V. Gasche
He was equipped with credits
amounting to many millions of dollars
and he boosted when he imbibed wine
too freely that he had absolute au-
thority to do anything to prevent the
export of munitions. 1t was he who
said. IF can stop the export OF arms
and munitions l shall have done more
than the army which captures Paris"
Wolf of Wall Street.
The first scheme he sought to work
out was to call strikes in the impor-
tant munition factories Working with
Street" he mapped out the plan of
forming an organization called THE
Labors National Peace Council" com
posed of labor leaders and union men,
with the idea of protesting against
the manufacture of war supplies and
munitions on the ground that such
work was promoting war. He handed
out money freely, spending almost
S1.000,000. for through the organiza-
ton he sought to bride labor leaders
to call strikes in the big plants and
thus put a brake on the smoothly NOV
ing plans of the allies.
He is accused of having been behind
the plan calling out the $4,000 long
shoremen on the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts. Through emlssaries selected
by German agents a proposition was
put to 7. V. O'Connor, president of
the longshoremen's union, to call
strike. Mr.. OConnor was asked to get
the men out for one month. Though
the rules of the organization require
that men on strike shall receive "a
a week while on strike, an offer of
S45 a month was made to Mr.. O'Connor
for every man called out on strike. In
other words, more than 100000 was
offered to him and it was plain that
the bribers did not care whether he
paid the money to the men or tucked
it snugly away in a bank for his own
use
Undoing of Rinteen.
But here again the patriotism of
American labor leaders and the alert
ness of the secret service led to Rinte-
lens undoing. The men at the head
of the labor organizations quickly
learned of the efforts of German man
ipulators and intriguers and they took
efforts to prevent strikes or to end
strikes which had already been called
by the smaller men in the organiza-
ton. They, too have been responsible
for the indictment of the men who are
believed to have received German gold,
for they told their stories freely to
Captain William NJ. Affley of the de-
partment of Justice.
Rintelen had bigger schemes still. He
pictured this country in war with Mex
leo, mobilization of the regular army
and the militia, an assembling of the
American fleet. That would require a
large part of the output of the NUM-
ton factories. The horses that were
being shipped to the allies, the arms.
the clothing for soldiers, the shoes and
the hundreds of other things which
American factories were busily turning
out, would be required for a large
American army moving south of the
Rio Grande.
Accordingly. he seized upon Presi-
dent Wilson's opposition to General
Huerta and he planned to start a revo-
luton in Mexico with the aim of re-
turning Huerta to power and thus
placing the United States in n posi-
tion where 1t would be compelled to
go into Mexico and restore order The
United States would not be in a posi-
ton to dictate terms for the settlement
of the Lusitania controversy, would
seize the war supplies going to the
allies and, incidentally. would be ham
pered for the remainder of the Euro
pean war. The alertness of the Unit
ed States secret service nipped this
plan in the bud.
1t has been asserted in authoritative
! quarters that Rintelen, who commune
Gated daily by wireless with Berlin.
was commissioned TO stop exports of
such materials as the allies wished.
! While he was engaged directly super
vising the plots already outlined a
number of other activities designed
to effect the same purpose were going
on.
Organized Into Groups.
In every large city there are num-
Der of groups of Germans, each one of
which has some special object In view
| for the advancement of Germany's
cause. Each group raised its own
funds by subscription and each group
had at least one man who knew a mem
Der OF another group, so. that there was
an exchange of plans to prevent dupIi-
cation. incidentally, a travelling agent
conferred with the executive member
OF each group. learning just what was
being done and carrying that informa-
ton to man who kept the general
war staff fully advised.
As result of this cooperation many
small things have been done to delay