Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-13
MONTE CRISPEN
(SRe, eSeauo()
Remarkable Story Of the MonaetlerOs Adventures in Kpdpstor


Great heavsnsl It cannot be"
| "Bet d0t, beg of you believe me-" said
| the Countess, Scratch war and vou
| always find bankers under the cuticlss
| These guardians Of the gold bins are the
| silent forces OF foment"
Then she told him Of one financial syn.
| dicate of central Europe that planned to
invest S200.000.0 900 in American enter.
, prises before the war ends
These human steel traps we'll know
| that america will be the one big country
/ free from heavy taxation when the con.
| flict ceases" she said "They know Eu.
| ropes financial back is already broken
Your uncle's estate was marked for at
/ tack three months after the war started
They paid we'll Sigvay is mercenary
| Where he failed through your alertness,
| others on like missions are succeeding
| Let America bewarel The ghouls of
| Europe are at work"
Crispen looked up at her. and was
| about to interrupt, but thought better of IT,
ain the opinion of these royal money
changers l would be considered traitor,
| a renegade" she said, but have lived
| 10 years In the black depths of IL; long
! enough to realize that II is they, not I,
| who are the traitors to the country their
| plots have robbed of its manhood. Once
| I threatened my father | was going to
| speak out Of these things and he beat
| me like a dog. l waited for my time. 1t
! has come
She went on excitedly: ITS not right /!
| It's neither fair nor decent, and I won't
have you think the German people are the
1 cruel, inhuman monsters they are pictured.
They have been duped, terribly duped, by
! their rulers, acting forSthe trade and colo
| NAL expansion interests, but German
| hearts are as kind and their sentiments
as tender as those of any race on earth.
,i.1,- II Co..
There was a CLINT of tears in her eyes
as she said this, and Monte took her hand
with compassionate gesture. He won
dered If she knew anything about the set
ting fire to the Roeblng plant at Trenton,
or any of the many other mysterious, un-
solved recent attacks upon American in
dustry. He asked the question point
blank
"I cannot say who is doing It," she
said, except that there are many groups
operating, and have been for months. Each
has its DroSSer-1ebot. The brains of the
alien secret services are not all at WASH
ngton they are everywhere you find a
foreign bank. q foreign steamship COM
pany, a foreign chemical house, a foreign
brewer or a foreign manufacturer that has
been pnched by the war. Each works to
his own interest Independent of the other.
Ambassadors are front doors. purposely
kept spotless and clean. 1t Is not there the
schemes are Matched. although their at
taches sometimes assist Who made the
deadly gases used on the German front /?
Why, the great chemical houses of Ger
many. For whom does the German Gov
ernment cry for the freedom of the seas?
Not for the people. 1t is for the banking
and industrial barons"
Without pausing Zeda continued: ut
Is terrible. this silent progress of the
agents of these desperate interests in the
United States. Your statesmen have so
far blinded themselves as to the origin
of the blows that have fallen. These sin