New-York tribune., 1917-10-14
Americas Efficient
Secret Service
.ERMANY, with a spy service p.,.

Y j meating the entire world, h.,
been foiled by "shirt-sleevep d.
mocracy and the quiet work Of the Secr.,
Service men of this country, according n
number Of papers, which congratnls,.
the government on tripping up Luxbury
Won Eckhardt, Won Bernstorff and other,
Europe has awakened" says "Tb.
Memphis Commercial-Appeal,' TO the far.
that the Secret Service Of the United
States is one Of the most efficient 70 b.
found in the world. Berlin is still
raystifed as to how Washington came inh
possession Of the facts showing the duplic.
ity Of Foreign Secretary Zimmerman
and his proposal to Mexico 70 join Japan
in an invasion Of the United States. Ber.
lin is still wondering how the State De.
rartment became aware Of the treaeherv
Of von Bernstorf.
"The Secret Service men exposed the
rottenness of the Argentina scandal, and
the Secret Service men keep Washington
closely in touch with the most intimate
matters connected with the diplomatic De.
partments Of Europe.
"The Secret Service Of the United
States will always remain mystery but
it has convincingly shown what it can do.o
Similar satisfaction is expressed BY
THE Christian Science Monitor" which
in reviewing the history Of this nations
diplomacy, remarks that intrigue and
espionage are revolving to the sentiments
Of the United States. 1t would be
impossible to imagine any one Of the lcng
line Of ministers extraordinary and er.
yoys plenipotentiary, or any Of the am
bassadors who have succeeded them, in
Great Britain, France, Germany Austria,
Russia, or Italy, descending to the methods
that have been pursued for the last fifty
years By diplomatic representatives o.
Germany. 1t is inconceiyabie that
Charles Francis Adams, a James Russell
Lowell, a John Hay, an Andrew D. White,
Brand Whtlock, a William G. Sharp or
David r. Francis should stoop to the
cheap trickery that has recently been
fastened upon the Luxburgs, the Won Eek.
hardts and the Won Bernstorffs"
This leads "The Monitor to show how
during the first seventy-fye years Of its
history, the United States had so little
use for secret service that when Lincoln
iourneyed to Washington in the spring
of 1861, private detective. Allan Pinker'
ton. had to be assigned as his protector
After the Civil War the so-called secre.
service gradually degenerated into posi-
cffice inspection department, for years
concerned principally with the hunting
down Of smugglers, counterfeiters or
moonShiners.
Ever since the war started, in 1914, how
ever. the United States Secret Service
has been alert to every move Of inter-
national importance" continues TIE
Monitor" and nothing was more care
fully or more persstently cultivated in
the early months of the war, as proof OF
Germany's marvellous efficiency, than the
operations of her spy system.
But on the whole. German espionase
has been characterized by c.umsiness ana
stupidity. It's operations have been detected
exposed and rendered ridiculous By the Sc.
cret service OF = country ;hat has never hai
any particular respect for espionage, and tna'
has less respect than ever for it to-day. There
is not single instance in which tie pro,ee'
tive secret service Of the United States has
been called OIL 70 contend with The sggres'
sve German espionage system where the s''
ter with all its pre.ensions 70 eihcieney, has
not, if we may borrow phrase from Co'ohes
Poosavelt heen 'heaten 70 a fraZZ.e.'