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SEES VAST PLOT
AGAINST NATION
Radical Elements of Country
Banding Together, Senate
Committee Hears
Washington, March 11. Mail
(.matter seized since the signing of
'the armistice has disclosed that the
I 1. W. W. anarchists, radical Social
s' ists and others are "perfecting an
( amalgamation" which has for its.ob
( jeet the overthrow of the American
. government through a "bloody revo
, lution" and the establishment of a
j Bolshevik Republic, according to a
I memorandum sent to the Senate prop
! aganda committee by Solicitor Lamar,
tof the Post Office Department. The
/ memorandum was made public yes
) terday by the committee and Chair
| man Overman said it would be read
i into the record to-day.
'■ Declaring that in Bolshevism the
radical elements of the country had
gor the first, time "found a common
aause upon which they can unite,"
&Ir. Lamar said his information
,showed the propaganda against the
government was being conducted
vith great regularity und that its
Inagnitude could be measured by the
*'bold and outspoken statements"
found in the literature. Accompany
ing his memorandum were several
liundred excerpts from mail matter
allowing the trend of the propaganda.
■These will be made public later.
Particular reference was made by
)tlie solicitor to the activity of the dis
j satisfied foreign element in the
) country but be said perhapj the I. W.
'W. was the most active in the dis
semination of the propoganda be
aause it "has at its command a
large field force known as recruiting
Agents, subscription agents, etc., who
Vork unceasingly in. the furtherance
I of "the cause.' "
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The Private Life of the Kaiser
FROM THE PAPERS AND DIARIES OF
THE BARONESS VON LARISCH-REDDERN
The Kaiser and Kaiserln's late Major Domo, Chief of the Royal Household at Berlin and Potsdam
Baroness Ton Lariseh-Rcddern is the TRUE name of the Berlin Court lady, who gave
the story of Uhj Kaiser to Henry William Fisher. Ursula, Countess von Eppinghoven being
u nom de guerre, heretofore used to shield her.
The Savage at Home —Kaiser Sets a Drillmaster to
Cudgel His Wife, His Courtiers and Domestics—
Servants Threatened With Fists and Sticks—Wil
liam Ran His House as He Wanted to Run the World
—"I Won't Stand Any Nonsese From Any of
You" (Meaning the Nations) —Story About Wil
liam's Double—Herbert Bismarck Gavfe the Em
press Many Heartaches—The Imperial Court
A-tremble Who the Infamous Eulenburg
Really Was—Kaiser Sponged on Him For
Years—"The Woman Pays"—A Woman of
the Eulepburg Famliy Paid Cost of Kaiser's
Entertainments—He Was So Low a Crea
ture One Must Needs Bring Out All the
Circumstances to Understand the
Baseness of His Character
"TIIE SAVAGE AT HOME" this contribution of Baroness von
I.nrisch to tho Secret History of the Court of Berlin inay properly
IK- labeled. The world lias stood ngliast for four and onc-ltalf long
years, apallcd and wondering at the unprecedented savagery dis
played by the Huns under the Chief Hun's command.
Head what the Chief linn did at hoinc, or liad done in his name
by one of Ids Count-Marslial-drill-sergennts.
Read also about Ills intimato friends and advisors, and if you know
of any more ruthless brute llian Liebenau, a more beastly wonian
lieater than Herbert, or a worse moral leper than Eulenburg—shun
them.
A man is known by the friends lie gathers around him!
[Continued from Yesterday.]
It was a motly array of weaklings
I found in the Imperial household.
The Kaiser shunned strong char
acters—they annoyed him while, in
the presence of weaklings, he al
ways felt the strong man himself.
I think the man whom I despised
most from the day I entered the
palace was Major von Liebenau, the
court marshal, who for many years
exercised a strange influence over
the Kaiser.
I had seen royalty born, and had
helped to distribute its garter on the
wedding eve; I had stood at its
death bed, and in royal company
had enjoyed the good things of this
world—in fact the greater part of
my life had been spent at court;
but where formerly 1 was welcomed
as a friend and companion, I was
now—such are the vicissitudes of
life —merely one of a few hundred
attendants. Was, then, Madame de
Cornuel's adage, that no great man
is perfect in his valet's eyes, to be
brought home to me with terrible
force right at the beginning?
"These people," I argued to my
self, "are like sponges, absorbing
the atmosphere of their environ
ment, being at the same time too
careful of their own interests to as
sume an attitude out of countenance
with that of their betters.
Court-Marshal's Advice: "Be a I/iar
and Hypocrite"
The voice of Cpurt-Marshal von
Liebenau, now my superior, woke
me from the reverie into which I
had dropped.
"My dear Baroness," said the
courtier, rising from his arm-chair,
"take a bit of friendly advice be
fore you select your suite of rooms
among the apartments set aside for
Her Majesty's ladies. If you -wont
to .succeed at our court, leave all
thoughts of independence, all In
born notions of truthfulness and
common, evory-dny honesty, outside
the palace gate, divest yourself of
personality all individualism save
that oi our masters' is odious—ho an
automaton pure and simple, smile
upon Her Majesty's wlilms. do not
1h- milled by a superior's insnlt, and
if at any time you must fly into a
rage, retaliate upon those under
you."
I was about to speak, to protest,
but tlio Court-Marshal anticipated
me.
"I know what you want to say,"
he cried: "you think It mean and
contemptible to let the Innocent suf
fer for their betters' wrongs, and I
agree with you. But we all do It,
must do it; it is a sort of lightning
rod for one's ill-temper.
An revoir. • Once more—be an
automaton."
William's Double
Liebenau was a man after Wil
liam's own heart, lits double In
more than one respect. A lieuten
ant in the First Guards, he attract
ed the then Prince William's atten
tion by the same characteristics
that drew him to the younger Bis
marck.
When William was Crown Prince
studying statecraft in the foreign of
fice under Count Herbert's tutelage,
Liebenau got his real foothold in the
princely menage established in the
Marble Palace, which he ruled with
a high band. At the same time the
heir to the crown was revelling in
the charms of divers queens of
tragedy, comedy and the ballet, at
tached to the royal play and opera
houses, taking his cue about "the
only use woman's fit for" from Count
Herbert who never spoke of the
other sex except in the coarsest of
terms.
William's yonng wife saw herself
reduced to the position of a "Hol
stein," good enough to fill a succes
sion of royal cribs, ranging in size
like the pipes of an organ. She was
rigidly excluded from her husband's
world of ideas and ambitions, which,
perhaps, she did not comprehend,
but, for all that, endorsed with
touching sincerity. These were In
deed unhappy days for the royal
Atigusta Victoria.
How often she has poured the
story of her mortification and, dis
appointment into mine and the
Countess Brockdorff's ears! Poor
Princess! She had been brought up
to the sober truth thai royal women
must get used to dividing their hus
and with others and bowed her
blonde head under the historic bane
not with the worst of grace. What
rent her heart was William's cyni
cal way of regarding woman's su
preme duty and highest honor
motherhood.
Kalsorln Laments ner Destiny.
'•I don't want to IK- looked upon
as n means for propagating the royal
race exclusively," she cried once.
"But under Count Bismarck's teach
ings, the Prince seems to liavc for
gotten pint I possess any womanly
qualities besides that or chlld-hcar
lug."
Fearful lest Her Royal Highness'
hatred of Count Herbert might lend
her to rasli remarks in the presence
of the old Emperor and her hus
band with both of whom young Bis
marck was persona grata, I tried to
intervene by suggesting that he was
not altogether a 'bad man, having
fought with distinction in the French
war.
"Yes, yes, I heard plenty about
that," interrupted Augusta Victoria,
impatiently; "he is said to have re
ceived three bullets, and since then
has made three of our sex extreme
ly miserable —tliat person in Bonn,
who caused the duel: the poor Prin
cess Carolath, and myself."
The fall of the Bismarcks is a
matter of history, but that the pres
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in it, few, if any, writers have a
notion of. It is true, Augusta Vic
toria dreaded her husband's parting
with tlie Prince, but feared even
more the constant intimate relations
between William and Herbert Bis-1
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marck; and while she once succeed- ■
ed in striking his name from the]
list of guests on the Northland trip,
giving his place to her uncle, Her
bert was invited to accompany the
Kaiser to England and on the Ori
ental, tour, mainly, it was rumored,
on account of his boast that, as sec
retary of foreign affairs, he would
find ways and moans to open tlie
doors of the Sultan's liarem to His
Majesty.
Women Overthrow Iron Chancellor
Whether Herbert Bismarck made
such promises I cannot say; enough
that my mistress believed he did,
and persuaded Countess Waldersee
(the former Miss Lee of New York)
to believe it also. Her Excellency
was a most pious woman, and Her
bert necessarily figured in' her in
ventory of proscribed persons with
a big "H," as Baron von Mirbach
put it.
How the two august ladies worked
for the downfall of the hated man;
a few pin-thrusts here, an allusion to
the old Chancellor's ambition to set
up a throne beside the throne there.
"Crown Prince Herbert," "Woman
beater Herbert," "Son of his father,"
and what not? And in the end:
"Down goes the mantle, and the
I Prince must follow."
Of tho old Cluuicellor, guilty of
l two pardonable sins: that of pos
sessing undoubted popularity, far
exceeding the Emjieror's, and a
liearty disinclination to accommodate
himself, after years of supreme rule,
to the part William intended for
him—of this "obstreperous servant"
tho Kaiser had been tired for a long
time, and the separation enforced
in March, 1890, was nothing if not
premeditated. Indeed, the Kaiser's
inviolable intention to dismiss the
"old man," as he called him, was ex
pressed as far back as October, 1889
to Czar Alexander of Russia.
However, the Kai3er had no no
tion whatever of getting rid of
Count Herbert Bismarck too. Only
the gross coercion used against the
"old man" on the one hand, and on
the other the fact that Bismarck,
'when making the historic appeal to
the Empress Frederick —"his last
stand" —learned that the petticoat
camarilla had worked against his
son as diligently as the Kaiser's in
creasing querulousness and thirst for
independence—this aggravating cir
cumstance alone forced resignation
upon the count.
"And what will you do?" asked.
William, the Secretary of State.
"Follow my father," answered
Herbert.
• • •
Liebenau, though more the Kai
ser's alter ego than Herbert, was
never on terms of intimacy with
William, who selected him as Ma
jor-domo when, after his marriage,
his household was established, for
the same reason that, in 1897,
prompted his nomiuatton of a gen
eral of cavalry for the position of
Postmaster General, viz.: because
he was a gpod driller, a disciplinar
ian of the sort that does his mas
ter's bidding without tho slightest
thought for the feelings of others.
An official reputed to carry out or
ders unflinchingly and, if need be,
unscrupulously, was always apt to
attract a man of William's arbitrary
temperament.
I.lebenau's- Secret of Power
There was another poiiy; speak
ing in Llebenau's favor. At first
William's income was 'a little over
$50,000 per year, a mere bagatelle,
considering the pretensions of both
master and mistress; but the Court
marshal, coming from a family in
which the Prussian saying, "Golden
collar—stomach hollow," has had
practical demonstration through
generations of uniformed, spurred,
and sabred vaingloriousness and mis
ery, promised to carry on the stew-,
ardship that would have been mori
bund in most other hands, to a nice
ty—promised it, and kept his prom
ise.
He did more. During the first two
or three years, at least, he man
aged to set aside for the personal
use of the Prince considerable
funds. Later, debts were contract
ed; they were not of Liebenau's
making, though.
But, while ingratiating himself
with William, and, in fact, with the
entire royal family—this "mounted
beggar," as the old Empress Augus
ta calle® him, showed his natural
inclination for the noble art of
browbeating.
Loyalty itself (I doubt whether a
more loquacious reciter of courtly
phrases and of assurances of re
spect and humility ever addressed a
royal lady), nothing seemed to give
this intriguer more satisfaction than
to refuse, on the plea of expenditure,
whatever the future Empress ex
pressed a wish for in the way of
food, or petty luxury, not on the
daily list. /
"Think of it," she said to me one
morning, "this Liebenau refused me
a glass of Madeira for'second break
fast, claiming his budget would not
permit such extravagance when we
are alone, there being hardly enough
to set the table as it ought to be set
when the Prince himself is present.
" 'My appropriation scarcely war
rants (he purchase of expensive
wines for Hid Royal Highness' own
consumption,' he had the impudence
to tell me. I nearly choked with
anger."
Attempts to Outroyal Royalty
When William became Crown
Prince, Liebenau retained his posi
tion at .the. head of the largely aug
mented household: but, on assum
ing the throne, the Kaiser kept him
ion the anxious bench many weeks,
before granting him the rank und
title of Chief Grand-marshal of the
Court.
Liebenau established a reign of
terror at the palace, as William had
done in some departments of gov
ernment; but, while the Kaiser wait
ed before promulgating his boust and
threat: "There is but one master—
none other will I tolerate." his Mur
shal proceeded at once to demon
strate that he was the real King's
lieutenant, vested with absolute
power from whose decisions no ap
peal could be had. And that was no
idle talk, for in domestic affairs the
Kaiser listened to no one but him.
Court a Tremble
Tlius, with a master the very re
verse of iHtiitc, accessible, or gen
erous, and a siibmaster trying to
outdo tlie other in arbitrariness and
contemptuous treatment or all be
neath liini in rank or soelul station,
our Court was in a wretched plight,
and the Empress' Indies especially
suffered from this barraek regime.
Our private apartments in the
Scliloss at that time left much to
wish for in a sanitary sense, as in
deed they do now; but whenever
Countess von Brockdorff, or any of
us, ventured to suggest the slightest
improvement to the Court-marshal,
that functionary cut short our com
plaints in the rudest manner pos
sible. And not only that; even the
Empress' orders were treated much
in the same insolent fashion, so the
whole Court was kept in a perpetual
turmoil.
Disgraceful Rows in Pnlnee
The male dignitaries and officials!
of the imperial household fared no]
better than ourselves under the
King's lieutenant, and disgraceful
rows and minor disturbances were of
almost daily occurrence, while tho
servants, besides being subjected to
the coarsest treatment, had to endure
threats of corporal punishment.
These browbeatings and bullyings
continued uninterrupted and unpun
ished until the omnipotent Pooh-
Bah happened to run amuck of Gen
eral von Wittlch, chief of royal
headquarters, who. being offered in
solence. threw down his gloves, and
shuking his fist in Ihe Court-mar
shal's face cripd: "If you were not
so far beneath me, I would whip you
like the cur you nre.
[To Be Continued To-morrow.]
Pope Confirms American
Bishops and Archbishops
By Associated Press
Rome, March 11.—Pope Benedict
held a consistory yesterday and con
firmed the American bishops and
archbishops appointed by brief since
the last consistory, granting the
pallium to the new American arch
bishops.
In his allocution the Pope ex
pressed the hope that the new ar
rangement of the world would be in
spired by sentiments of justice and
fairness, capable of bringing about
a true and lasting peace.
Only Hope for Russia
Lies in American Aid
Philadelphia, March 11. —Madame
Catharine Breshkovukayn, the "lit
tle grandmother of the RusSidn rev
olution," last night told members of
the Contemporary Club that the only
hope for Russia and (he only cure
for Bolshevism lies in the aid given
by the people of America. She Baid
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tliat only through such help could
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which she is plunged.
Aid not only in words but deeds is
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of life is the sort of help that will
turn the tide against Bolshevism.
Education is another fuctor that will
play an important part, she said, but
that, of course, can only come with
time. Bolshevism, she declared, is
an idea and not a government.
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last light, and in order to save the
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