STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1858, sig. 109-5/86

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40 90 -18 - I am convinced of complete political failure. As an economic leader, Stoupal is undoubtedly a man of above-average abilities and a great vision, who, from an economic point of view, has done considerable work for the establishment of the peasantry in Moravia and, in doing so, has also brought into being from the standpoint of the economic policy of the empire as a useful thought to be recognized. But he is by no means just a man of the economy, but he was primarily a politician and a politician of a security of purpose and consequence which is extremely dangerous for Germanism. On Stoupal and scine politics, I have often taken a very clear view of people's Germans, who are very knowledgeable, and who have consistently expressed to me that the dominant idea of Stoupel has always been to play a decisive and leading role in politics as the leader of the agricultural party. The promotion of small farmers, whom he needed as voters of his People's Party and whom he understood to bind to himself by all means economic ties, was only a means of gaining political power. He had fought Germanism as a national Czech with ruthless energy and has a significant part in the economic weakening and erosion of Germanism in Moravia, whose extent in his ability to cleverly conceal economic processes is still not fully recognizable today, The fact that Stoupal succeeded in raising the conviction at Dr.Horst, that all his measures only