El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-01-27
BJORNSTON TO lola.
Norwegian Novelist Thinks His French
Copfere is q Hero.

C0nIefe Is Hero.
A special 70 the New York World
from Paris says: Stree the French
government refused to permit Zola to
go to Devils Island to describe Drey.
| fus' situation preci> ely as it is, Biorn-
stjerne Biprnston, the famous Nor
wegian novelist, poet and dramatist,
has written from Rome to lola as fol-
lows:
"Every Honored Master: How
envy you! How [ with | were in your
place, in order t, the able to render to
the country and 10 huma nifty service
like that rendered by you.
Il have also proved by experience
that it is much more pre- ious to want
to eradicate haired than love from the
minds of men.
ga host of things which have for q
long time been taking ro,t in the mob
lest rs well as in the bases in. t nets Of
the French people have brought on
conditions go tragic that thousand
years of progress and civilization are
swept away.
All others tremble OF fore the cries
and the furry OF bsrbar ians, but they
with Tyre and sword, marched against
millions.
us there nobler spectacle to be
seen in the world? That WAS lust what
France needed.
81 can assure you that all the people
OF Europe are gazing at France at this
moment in establishment and pain Two
facts sufficiently explain it. The first
IS the Indictment against Dreyfus. 1t
is unworthy of men charged with inn
mense responsibility.
THAT Indictment charges Dreyfus
with showing treason bile favor to Ger
many. Io the evidence to show guilt
it was alleged that he could 90 to Alsace
mere easily than other French officers
That Was officially den ed blythe Alsace-
LOrra ne government Twice in the
same Year Dreyfus was prohibited from
entering Alssce; the third time he
started lie vas permitted to spend a
week there by his father, who was ill.
Has any one ever sean man acting a
spy for any country refused access to
that country?
''The imperial government of Ger
many, moreover, has declared official
ly that Dreyfus never had relations
with it's agents. The allegat ton of the
Indictment, the refOre, is absolutely
false.
1.-THE secord fact is that the official
commur icatinns made t, the. press Of
firms that the indie ment contains only
part of the proofs Of DreJ fus' guilt,
while the rest are kept secret, having
been cnmmunica ted only to the Judges
dur ing the trial.
SIN other words, Dreyfus was not
condemned legally. He was deprived
| Of rank, disgraced and transported be-
yOnd the seas witt out legal trial.
upon TIE unsupported opinion of O few
comrades
"a government which in the face of
| that facts refuses to review the Drew
fus court marital assnredly is more de-
I void of cons ience than any hitherto
| Known among civilized people.
THAT is the JUDGMENT of all Europe,
be assured. Furth ermo ore. Europe ad-
mires what you have done. 1 ALWAYS
| have held the opinion that the rk of
| romance writer or poet bears the
same relation to himself personally as
notes to the bank which issued them
and which should have on hand
securities corresponding to the issue.
I'VE see now tbst if your works
have circulated throughout the world
TO increase the courage and enrich the
heart of humani y it IS b cause you
yourself are man of courage and
| heart
| ''BJORNSTJERNE BJORNSTON"
The PEOPLE If the United States are
paving between $3.50. coo, 900 and 5000.
900, 900 every year for the carriage OF
| their products TO outside markets
Very little of this NOR y comes back
to this country. 1t gres into The
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