!"
He pictured Germany as a lamb with fleece as white as snow, and a huge
Belgian wolf jumping at the lamb's tender throat. "What an ambitious man
was President Wilson. How eagerly had Congress waited until Germany was
weak, and then rushed in to grab the fruits of war!" When this man sat
down his hearers were in a state of rapturous upheaval. But scarcely had
his voice ceased echoing in the air when the second Secret Service man
arose. Having complimented the first two speeches by the German
plotters, he said that he thought he represented the members in
expressing the judgment that the third speaker had made a speech that
was unrivalled in its statement as to the duty of the members toward the
Kaiser and the beloved Fatherland. The second Secret Service man,
therefore, moved that it be the sense of the meeting that the member who
had just spoken be made secretary of the meeting, be custodian of the
funds just contributed. In five minutes he had all the secrets of the
meeting safely lodged in the hands of the first Secret Service man. At
this point the third representative of the Government arose and
nominated the second Secret Service speaker, who had just taken his
seat, as teller to count the funds, and in recognition of this man's
gifts the teller immediately afterwards appointed the third Secret
Service man assistant teller. During the next three hours, in the
secrecy of their own meeting, over twenty prosperous and influential
Germans committed themselves against this Government.

About midnight the secretary and the two tellers turned over to the two
Germans who had made the two big speeches at the opening of the meeting
the entire collection, which amounted to thousands of dollars. But at
half-past twelve, as these two Germans were entering their hotel, four
Secret Service men tapped them on the shoulder and promptly relieved
them of the aforementioned thousands. One of these men is now working
out his sentence in a Southern penitentiary and the other in a Western
penitentiary. Their sentences were for twenty-eight years. The other men
who defended Germany and attacked the United States are serving
terms--some long and some short. It is a proverb that the wicked flee
when no man pursueth. But Dr. Parkhurst coined a striking sentence when
he added: "The wicked man makes better time in fleeing when the
righteous Secret Service man pursues him with a sharp stick."

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