The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-25

cerebral congestion. but you know, that it
was an accident caused by mercurial vapors
he had inhaled in his factory. he cannot.
therefore, have transmitted anything TO me
by heredity. / repeat that / am not mad.
i am quite sane. Once more / thank the
doctor, but i assume the full responsibility
of what / have done"
The trial lasted two days, and closed
with long, well-delivered address by Hen
~ to the jury. This defense OF his con-
duct, which he had written while in pris-
on and had learned by heart, is perhaps
the most terribly crushing answer that has
yet been made TO those believers in moral
progress by means of enlarged educational
facilities who have produced a generation
of men that cannot live by their brains and
indulgent to live by their hands.
Emile Henry. the ideal who has thrown
Ravachol and Valiant into the shade by
adding, TO that hatred of the social order
which he had in common with them, the adj
yantages that belong TO superior mental
gifts and higher education, was, until he
had to face the necessity of working for
his bread, quite an exemplary youth. He
was one of those who take advantage OF
all the educational opportunities which the
republic offers 10 poor Out clever boys.
The idea that society robbing him
grew rapidly under the influence Cf the
revolutionary theories which began to have
a charm for him. He could not accept with
patience the disillusions which the realities
of life brought him.
He said to the jury: Il have been told
that all doors were thrown wide open 10
the Intelligent and enerUetic. but axDeriepcs
showed me that only the cynical and the
groveiing obtained the good places at the
banquet" He acknowledged with perfect
candor that the kind of education he had
received had helped to make him a mater
ialist and atheist. His studies, ne said,
had made him gradually familiar with the
play of natural forces and had taught him
that religious and authoritative morality
was destined to disappear" What then"
he asked. was to be the new. morality
which, In harmony with the laws of ma
ture would regenerate the old world and
bring forth a happy humanity
DANGEROUS TYPE OF CRIMINAL.
He is undoubtedly the most dangerous
type of criminal that has yet appeared
one. too. whose example appears to be high
ly contagious. NJ. Paul de Cassagnac
commenting upon the verdict, said This
trial. by it's publicity alone will do more
evil than all the revolutionary journals
and all the anarchical preaching could do
in several years"
all the more mischievous by the remarka-
bic ability shown In It, Published in ex-
tense. it has gone into many thousands
of hands. and 1t is likely to have a de-
plorable influence upon many weak or NOR
bid brains. This will he increased by the
disdainful and unfaltering attitude of the
prisoner throughout the proceedings An
archists have some reason TO laugh at re-
cent legislation directed against the press.
when all the papers become agents of their
propaganda under the pretext of satisfying
public curiosity respecting the proceedings
OF trial.
Such a speech left his lawyer but little to
say in his defense. He did his best to paint
his client as a mystic. dreamer, the VIC
tim Of hereditary morbid tendencies, but the
impression the prisoner had made on the
jury was not to be destroyed.
The jury were only three-quarters OF an
hour in finding verdict of guilty without
extenuating circumstances. Sentence of
death was duly pronounced, and Henry was
removed from the dock. As this was being
live anarchy" To his guards he said as
they were leading him down stairs to the
Conciergerie: We'll, they have been plucky,
For bourgeois they have not ben afraid.
and 1 like them all the better for it,
cell No. ]. which had been occupied by
Pranzini. Prado. Valiant and other no.ori-
director of the prison. who found him smox,
hungry hui Henry" he said NO, I'm not tired
enough" he replied, and he turne1 u IN;
table on which his dinner had been laid
much better dinner than he had had oi
late.
What a feast" he exclaimed. What q
pity that I'm not hungry lis not exf lte'
ment that has spoilt my appetite though
and I'll make up win the wine. Your
health. NJ. lie Directeur."
Henry, in the course of his address to tn
zols qa Germina In Which souvarine tn
Nihilist. declares all theorizing regarding
the future to be criminal because IL pre-
tetferes with the march of revolution. NJ
Zola being thus mis- en- cause by the An
archist, was called upon by the representa-
tive of Paris journal, TO whom the grea
novelist stated that he had followed witt
the greatest atteLtion the trial of Emile
Henry. The character of the CONDEMNED
| man, he said, did not in any way appeal Il
| him; he was much too cold, too full of van
| ity and not sufficiently human.
While stating that he regarded socia
upheaval as inevitable, NJ. lola reprobate
| propaganda by deed The words quoted il
the dock by Henry not the words o
the author of "Germinal," but are a quo
| tation from Bakounine, the Russian Nth.
| list. the founder of latter day nihilism
When writing "GerminaP' NJ. lola sur
| rounded himself with everything tendin;
| TO throw light on nihlism and natural,
made a profound study of Bakounine, wh'
in many points served as the original o
Souvarine in the novel.
The question of socialism interests NJ
| lola profoundly. For more than ten year
| he has been haunted increasingly by tn
| idea of the formidable liquidation of tn
social crisis which will sweep off every
| thing-society, institutions. morals, polite
| and religion.
''In two or three years from now adde's
| NJ. Zola, II will apply myself to the tasl
| and will strike the SOCIAL balance sheet .
| the century. This book, which will be en-
| titled Paris will contain much abou
| anarchy. / am already collecting all IN
| documents regarding 1t. / have thus &C
| cumulated everything that has been pub
| lished on this question for the last three o
four years.