The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-02-24


hall and borne in triumph through the
seething crowds on young mems
shoulders. The din was fearful, but it
was joyous din. The fact that lola
was meeting a severe sentence softened
angry passions. The French as victors
are kindly, defeat sours and infuriates
them.
Are we entering" moderate people
ask, IAN era of pronunciamentos?
No; no French general ever attempt
ed military dictature. The first and
second Napoleons were practically for
eigners. But there is strange COM
bination Of army, church and people,
with one objective-to put down Israel
in France" This union is less fortu-
itous than it looks. The Jews now con-
troll all the sources of wealth. The
minds and feelings of the people have
long been in revolt in secret against
this power, which has no physical force
behind it. What has fermented in the
brain is now going into action.
The church is the one great universal
organization to pit against the Jewish
universal alliance. France, therefore,
is now practically with Rome, but she
must keep the republic. A monarchy
could only live by force Of the army,
and would mean war.
France is not organized for war, for
her army is only militia; but Prince
Henry of Orleans is hoping for mill
tary movement against the republic
and to come to the top. He daily
showed himself during the trial in the
hall of the courthouse, and one day en-
braced Major Esterhazy, crying,
"Vive PArmee," He was sur
rounded and salaamed to by his
Orleanist friends; but it did not do. He
has no brilliant, captivating qualities,
but only an ambiguous, half-girlish
figure, and talks through his nose,
languidly.
M Faure only patronized General
Pellieux and General de Boisdeffre as
against lola. He likes fine military
company. Boisdeffre is aristocrattc,
and in favor with st. Petersburg, and
the President is sensible to this.
The cheering was tremendous all over
town, but there was little violence,
though the Jews were terrified. Some
Jews managed to be near the law
court, but escaped with their lives.
Fortunately three days of carnival
have used up the animal spirits of the
people They were tired and wanted
to go to bed. The students, however,
are much excited.
At a late hour tonight I went to
Zola's house. AS I passed through the
flower adorned vestibule thought that
a years Imprisonment would be a
wholesome change from this luxury.
M. Zola's taste for luxury Is Italian,
and his home is furnished much in the
Italian manner, richly and handsomely.
I found him more nervous than on
the hearing of the verdict, but bearing
up with stiff upper lip" He says he
Is sorry for France, but thinks she will
right herself.
The house was filled from the ground
re Of
flowers that had come from all parts
the gifts, doubtless, of Jewish ladies.
The tables were Uttered deep with tele-
grams One dispatch Of 5000 words
came to-day from Odessa.
M. lola will write another letter be-
fore surrendering himself. He is very
tired. He absolutely felt like storm
tossed mariner He was going, he said,
to the end Of the century in all-round
new conditions.
The friends around him envied him
in his new departure in the path Of
glory. What an honor it would be to
be a martyr for truth and justice! He
has had all that a prosperous career
could give but the way of the cross,
philosophically understood, was now
open to him.
A friend expressed regret that there
was so much burgeoise comfort at the
ST. Pelagie Prison. NJ Rochefort has
there his English bed and bedding, and
his servant and his wife go daily to
prepare his lunch. A cell would be
preferable were it not for rheumatism.
Zola's oldest friend assures me that
he would not die in Jail. He was
brought up in hardship; his father was
an old military campaigner with Ma
poleon, and in the retreat from Rus
STA. at Waterloo and other battles-a
sturdy French peasant. NJ. lola was
reared by peasantry to be hardy and
enduring. His health is not so good as
a while ago, owing to his anti-fat diet,
but the prison is sure to strengthen
him. and then there is the stimulating
moral force. EMILY CRAWFORD.