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TaÌˆgliches Cincinnatier volksblatt. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919, 1918-03-15
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TaÌˆgliches Cincinnatier volksblatt. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919, 1918-03-15
Splaanr.

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IinO audi banaA.
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bic SuFtoruddnberunQ id)aoei.
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balte es fir cine Der ernYtbafteiteh
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nal trtntt.
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IN ietler beutiJcu wiieHdaftlidj-
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25
Bismarck Conferred
The Title Reptile

The fund was officially known then
as the Wclfenfond Guelph FUND.- be-
cause the ruling house Of Hanover was
Guelph.
Bismarck made the most reckless use
of the annual income from this source,
amounting to about three million dol
lars, TO bride politicians, employ stool
pigeons and sycophants, pay perjured
witnesses willing "to swear anybody
dlslihed by the powers that were, even
their nearest relatives, into state
prison. and buy newspaper publishers
and editors. Whoever dared to dissent
from Eismarck's policy was branded as
vie traitor, a term that was changed
10 "Reichsfeind" enemy Of the empire)
after the erection Of the German EN-
pirc. There is not single political
party in Germany which has not been
attacked az traitorous by Bismarck, his
SUCCESSORS and their reptile press.
Reptile" The name WAS first con-
ferred by the Saekuarmcnsch imam Of
the century,, az Bismarck used TO call
himself through the writer's and politi-
cans on his payroll. on the Cuelnh
propaTandists- Bat public opinion
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25
Sale Of tiles
Swelled the und

ms weakness was made most OF TO
increase the secret fund at the dis
position Of the Berlin government.
Orders and titles wore at sale at fixed
prices plus commission and donation.
The fixed prices went-as the "yor-
warts" the "Kolnische Volkszeitune :"
the "Munchener Neueste Nachrichten"
and other papers openly stated in June
and July. 1914, without mourning Grim
inal prosecItion-to the Kaiser. his
consort and other ruling princes Of
Germany
These disclosures shook the monarch
zeal system il the Fatnerland and were
one Of the main causes Of the war.
For the masters Of Germany, who
heard the rumbling Of an impending
revolution, preferred 10 divert the dis
satisfaction Of the people against the
,creign enemy IN an attempt to save
heir thrones. The commissions were
received by the agents, mostly ladies'
and gentlemen Of undoubted crooked
ness. Ard me donations were well
come additions TO the Reptile Fund"
the annual income Of which grew so
immensely that ana'ly the greater part
OF the German language press OF
Switzerland and influential papers of
Holland. Denmark. Sweden. even Ct
Austria Hungary and of other eoun-
tries, could be broUrh. under German
control.
Other Swiss. Dutch. Scandinavian
and Hungarian newspapers WIRE
bought outright. It was generally
known among the political circles Of
Germany what Or. Mdhlon stated IN
his diary, recently published under the
title "The Devastation OF Europe"
that the berlin government believed In
the omnipotence of the bribe.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25
Row Reptile und
came Into Being

Inc submissiveness ii the over
'asiming majority Of the Germans, the
''as' Of centuries Of oppression by
.'ossds Of absolute princes, under
'ss very eyes nearly all the Teutons
mad 10 live, increased the efficiency
'hs Reptile Fund established in 1867
part Of state policy and originally
'"'"n as Welfenfond Guelph Fund.-
when has been increased ever
,'''s until half hundred million dol
:. Or more was used within less
'nrss years in this country alone
'ns purpose Of making mental and
~'@i nslots Of the Kaiser's out Of the
''pa'a'ion of our Republic.
;. Dnmarck, when Chancellor Of the
h herman Federation and Prussian
'"''%r, was the first leading states
- VINO openly owned up TO The wish
"A''nz sush fund for political cor
'h a. he disposal But he would
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25

ruptlon. The powers Of darkness had
grown stronger and stronger by ever
increasing systematic and persistent
efforts aiming at the perversion of ma
tional and individual ethics
Only a few of the great da.iies were
bought outright-those which we're
published at loss. The others were
favored with exclusive news Twenty
years ago even the "Frankfurter lei
tung," under Leopold Sonnemanns di-
rection, an upright, democratic pub
LEGATION, and perhaps the most serious
newspaper with.n the Fatherland, be-
came semi-oftical regarding foreign al
fairs. Its Berlin CORES ondent was al
lowed to use the back stairs when he
wanted to see the Chancellor or Sec
rotary of Foreign Affairs on urgent
business or when he wanted no one to
know Of his secret visits Favors were
exchanged between the government and
even radical newspapers, and nearly
all of the press lost its independence
and responsibility.
When the corruption Of the German
press had progressed far enough the
politicians were bribed. To what ex-
tent it was done may never be re-
vealed, although the veil of secrecy has
been partly lifted by Eugen Richter,
the most brilliant German parliament
tartan. who in 1886 in his "Fre!sinnige
Zeitung" published a partial list of the
benefcaries of the Guelph Fund
Among those mentioned was the
fatherin-law of Won Boetticher, the
then Secretary of the Interior. and sew
eral German-American newspapers.
The s3,0o0,00o annual income Of the
Guelph Fund. which was at the dis
posal of Bismarck, was a large cor
ruption fund half century ago, when
the purchasing power of money was
about five times as great as it is now
IN this country and the population of
the North German Confederation was
only 30.0Oo.000. The struggling coun-
try paper was subsidized and at the
same time edited according TO govern
mental orders. The editorials, full OF
calumny and derision OF any move
ment opposed to the governmental pol
icy, were furnished by an official press
bureau. Only governmental papers
were selected for the publication Of
paid official vertisements. which
every German must read The small
farmer and the small business man
and the worker had neither the time
nor the money to read or subscribe 10
more than one local paper. And very
small was the number of those who
read in addition newspaper pub
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25

done and health often sacrificed.
The continuance Of the Indian
Civil Service means that the struct-
ure OF administration, including
finance and the law, will not be
roughly shaken. But the basis of
authority will be transferred grad
ually to the people themselves.
The change is inevitable. Not only
has India furnished a million men
for the war and s5oo,0oo,o0o, but
she has seen autocracy fall in Rus
STA, in China and in Japan, and she
knows that autocracy is doomed in
Turkey and Germany. The only
question is, therefore, how changes
within her own coasts can be made
with least disturbance.
Mr.. Montagu begins by trans
ferring the government Of India as
far as possible overseas to India
herself. His object is to get rid of
the telegraph wire. Let the deci-
sions be taken on the spot. But he
also thinks that Britain should keep
friendly eye on what is going on
and so he sets up a special standing
committee for Indian affairs in the
House Of Commons. This is clearly
an adoption of the committee sys-
TEN famil ar in the American Con
gress end the Frel,c.. Legisla ture
The Indian Committee at Westmin-
ster will be non-party and will con-
sist wholly of members. themselves
elected to Parliament 1t will deal
with those Indian measures which
require imperial sanction.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25
Increase in the
Secret Funds

In the same year in which the Guelph
Fund was turned over to the Duke of
Cumberland the item "Secret expenses
Of the Foreign Office" in the imperial
budget was increased from 10000
MARKS to 100000 marks. The same
item grew to 100000 marks in 1907
and to 100000 marks in 1910 Official
documents referring to later years are
not available in New York City. Dur
ing the same period (1893-19l0) the
fund for the furtherance of German
schools and education and other vel
fare institutions with the exception Of
hospitals and aid societies in foreign
countries" was increased from 10000
to 900,0 900 marks. Also this fund was
ut the disposal of the Foreign once,
as were also the general fund, which
had been added to the budget OF the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25
Had Reached 1900, 600 Marks in 1910
Used to Subsidize Newspa ners and
All Politicians in the Empire

lished in one Of the large cities. There
fore the great majority read the "Ants-
anzeiger" official organ of district ,
in nearly all cases a Reptile" organ.
Only under especially favorable cir
cumstances could an opposition news
paper exist outside the big cities.
And in Germany the small newspa-
pers exert the greatest political inAu-
ence. Their readers believe IN the
printed word, while the subscri bers to
the large newspapers are, as rule,
better educated and more inclined TO
judge for themselves Publications Of
the Hearst type, read for their seasa-
tional headlines, their touching love
episodes and har-raising murder
stories. were unknown on the European
continent up 70 few years ago. The
governmental conquest Of the German
nation was started in the country dis
tricts, and progressed, by and by, to
the cities. where even great news pa
pers succumbed to the methods Of the
Reptile Bureau"
Incredible as it sounds. It is never
theless true that German language
publications in this country which were
CT the payroll of the Reptile Fund"
were also subsidized by American pub
lie authorities. All our backstair poll
ticians who had the interests of the
Potsdammers a heart-and their mum
Der is far greater than the American
the many disclosures in that direction
left nothing undone TO secure for the
kaiser's papers in this country public
advertisements. Many German daily
in the United States could not exist
without the receipts from municipal
and state Advertisements
In q good many instances these re-
ceipts were greater than the total pay
rolls. 1t was an ingenious scheme to
make the blodsinnige Yankees pay for
the Hohenzollern propaganda. And i
is still stranger fact that these Ger
man language papers had to be loyal
W tueti DCTIif SLSTS OF IlSk the loss
Of the American subsidies. For the
same German American politicians who
had obtained by the passage of state
laws city ordinances or personal ia
vor the public advertisements were in
a position and were under obligation TO
withdraw them in case the Berlin or
ders were not respectfully executed.
The politicians themselves were paid
in cash. in free first class passage to
and from Europe on the steamers of
the Hamburg American Line or the
North German Lloyd. in lucrative
American agencies OF the biggest Ger
man firms whose prosperity depended
to large extent on the good will of
Berlin. in the votes controlled by that
eminently traitorous organization
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25

turned the table on the sycophants, de
marck, and called the benehciaries Of
the Guelph Fund "reptiles," and the
fund itself was generally known as
"Reptile Fund
Bismarck was a junker, the incarna-
ton of reaction and oppression; and so
was every one of his successors, the
fact that Caprivi, Prince Hohenlohe
and Prince Bulow liked, at times. to
pose as liberals Notwithstanding. But
even the Conservatives were, thanks to
the power of the "Reptile Fund"
pushed against the wall until they
squeaked" when they attempted to OPP
pose the Iron Chancellor in 1874, and
were reduced to the position of minor
party in the Reichstag, when their
Deputies, to quote Bismarck's trium-
plant phrase, altogether at the same
time could ride in a single carriage
and only one proud column, Baron Min
nigcrode, remained"
The Reptile Fund" changed for the
worse, if that were possible. when it
ceased to be the Guelph Fund and be-
came the secret fund Of the Foreign
Office. After ex-King George Y of
Hanover had died, his son and heir, the
Duke of Cumberland, wrote on March
10, 1892, letter to the Kaiser denying
that he would ever undertake or favor
anything hostile to Prussia or her in
terests. The sequestration of the
Guelph Fund was repealed and the
capital of sl6,ooOooo was paid to the
Duke of Cumberland, father of the
present Duke of Brunswick, who mar
ried the kaiser's only daughter
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25

Foreign Office tweNty-one wears ago
and increased to $4,000 marks in 1910,
and many other funds designed for GER
tain specified purposes. but which the
government was authorized to transfer
20 any other fund and thereby use
them at Will and without the obliga-
ION OF rendering an account. None of
these funds was subject 10 the in
vestigation OF the Rechnungshof
Court of Accountants and could be
used just as the Chancellor or his Sub
ordinate in charge Of the secret funds
of the German and the far larger slush
funds of the prussian governments
saw fit TO use them.
From the time the Guelph Fund
went ont of existence the secret funds
were practically, while not legally,
pooled. The "Reptile Fund immense.
ly swollen by private contributions,
became the basis of a government within
the sovernm mt, which grew more
and more rockies so reckless, indeed,
that in 1895 the "Reptile Fund"
through young Leckert- Larsen and a
name of Won Lutzow, carried on a dar-
ing campaign Of insinuation and cal
umny against Chancellor Prince Hohen-
lobe. relative of the Empress, and
Foreign Secretary Baron Marschall Won
Biebersteln, who instituted libel pro
ceedings to find refuge in publicity
("Ich fiehe al die Ocfrentlichkeit,' as
Marschall Won Bieberstcin said at the
zow). Behind the attacks of the two
writer's was the Berlin secret political
police. Kriminal- missar (equiva-
lent TO our detective lieutenant) Won
Leckert- Larsen-von Lutow trial, in
dictcd for perjury, but in 1896 was
found not guilty by a jury, which was
we'll aware that the defendant was
powerful intriguants.
Since that time no German states
man ever dared to oppose the "Reptile
Fund" controlled by an all-powerful
camarilla within the government which
extended the sphere of its activities
from year to year. established under
one form or another news agencies
and brought under its control numer-
Gus newspapers outside of Europe, es-
pecially in South America.
Up to 1915 Brazilian and Argentinian
German language papers We're mailed
free Of charge to practically every
German language and many other
dailies throughout the world. These
newspapers, which otherwise would
have been published in camera, carried
articles which justly may be charge
terized as samples of pan-German
madness. Their publishers grew
wealthy without paid circulation and
practically without advertisements, al
though they employed high priced
writers on their editorial STATS. How
FAR the penetration of Italy and Rus
STA by German intrigucs had pro-
crossed became apparent during the
last year
OF course, as n rule the Conserva-
tives and Free Conservatives were on
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25
Corruption Money State institution
in Germany Since EIanoverian War
of l866-First Handled by Bisamrck

then hardly have obtained the consent
Of the Prussian Duma. which had not
yet lost al backbone more than half
century ago, if HAPPY incident" had
not paved the way.
When the Prussian bird Of prey de-
voured with other German states. the
Kingdom of Hanover, after the Prusso-
Austrian war Of 1866, it was agreed
in the peace treaty Of September 20,
1867, that the deposed King Of Han
over, George Y, be paid the sum of six
teen million Prussian thalers in ex-
change for his private and the Hano-
verian Crowns property. But Bismarck
was in no hurry to settle accounts. He
waited for an opportunity of selling
the sum Of acquittance (abhndungs-
summe). He had not to wait long
King George, who had found refuge in
Austria, as whose ally he had fought
Prussia and lost, made a speech when
he celebrated his silver wedding at
Hietzing, near Vienna, and expressed
the hope that he would soon be back on
the Hanoverian throne.
Prussia enacted on March 2, 1868, a
law to the effect that the agreed sum of
acquittance be not paid TO the deposed
King of Hanover, but administered by
a Prussian commission and the rev
enues be turned over to the Prussian
Premier, who was authorized to use the
money at his will to Illustrate Guelph
intrigues against Prussia, The Pre-
micr had not TO give an account in any
Way
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25
Severe Struggle Before
Indian Reformers

Before going any further | must
make it clear that the proposed
measures cannot be put into force
except by an act of Parliament. No
such act has yet been laid before
either Commons or Lords and the
government is not eager to give a
day for preliminary debate. A
severe struggle lies before reform
ers, in which they will have to COM
bat all the inertia Of the Conserva-
tive official class. AS Lord Curzon
himself is in the War Cabinet, this
quiet resistance may be serious,
especially if hopes among Indians,
having been raised, are not fulfilled.
For the Montagu scheme is every
thing that the enthusiasts desired
and more than any Of them dared to
expect. 1t goes further even than
the programme Of the late Mr.. Co.
khales, the grand old man Of India,
who led the national parties.
The proposals leave the British
sovereignty untouched. The Crown
remains as a link between all the
various provinces and states of
India. The Empire Of the East will
also have the advantage of a civil
service, composed of men appointed
after public examination for merit
only, who are strictly debarred from
receiving gifts or engaging in COM
merce. These men return to Britain
about the age of forty-fve. with a
pension only as the reward Of duty
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25

as possible with the semi-indepen-
dent native states. They will be
worked into the scheme by means of
a council of princes, who will thus
throw themselves into the great task
of preserving the unity and foster
ing the progress of the Indian En-
pire.
The franchise for electing Indian
legislators will be restricted at first
and there must be special arrange
ments for insuring that minorities
e. G., the Moslem Sikho-get some
of their men into the Parliament.
You cannot expect q logical system
all at once. Temporary anomalies
must be tolerated as devices of the
moment, but India will have her
Duma, where Indians and British
will sit side by side and discuss
things face to face and decide
things vote by vote.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-25
Provinces to Have
Their Own Legislatures

The country is already divided
into provinces. The division is as
important to Indians as the from
tiers Of Alsace-Lorraine are impor-
tant to France. Wien Lord Curzon
tried to split up Bengal exactly those
feelings were provoked which we
find in Poland under the partition.
Therefore it is essential that the
provinces of India shall have their
own Parliaments, working under the
central authority. Burmah and
some primitive regions are at pres
ent excluded. These local Parlia-
ments will consist Of q substantial
majority of elected members, with a
minority Of officials to help things
along, and opportunities of public
service are thus thrown open to any
native Indian of special ability.
Yes-you will say-but what pow
ers will you confer on these Parlia-
ments? VIII they not be merely
places for talk and criticism and
blowing off steam? Not at all. From
the first they will be given definite
work to do. Take, for instance.
Madras, where the Provincial Coun-