Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-02-12

According TO Drumont, Gambetta,
Jules Ferry and other members Of the
French government of the National
Defense were Jews, who had per-
feet understanding with the Germans.
He gives a beautiful pen.picture
OF the entrance into Paris of the
great military German staff, field mar
shals, generals and officers in full un-
form covered with decorations, and
behind them, shows US a caYalcade Of
small, dirty-looking men, riding bad
horses with greasy frock.coats and
| old silk hats-the Jewish 6nanclers
who had come to receive the French
millions.
We are also told that on that
memorable night, while the Partisan
population was weeping and mourn
ing, the Jewish leaders of the French
government entertained at dinner
and drank the health of their victors,
These are but a few passages of the
most exciting and most brutal book
ever published.
Since its publication, Drumont has
written other books and founded a
daily paper, LA Libre Parole"
always with the purpose of show.
ing that France is helplessly in the
hands of the Jews. The government,
army, navy and finances are controlled
10y them according TO him-and they
have 10 patriotism, no mother coun-
try, no flag. Money, money, money
is all they want, and they will sell
Franae TO Germany 10 ill their, Golfers.
1t is easy TO understand how such
sensitive people as the French can
grow excited and be brought to the
verge Of terrible social revolution by
such campaign.
Slowly, but surely, Drumont and
his friends and men like Henry
Rochefort have worked up the anti
Jewish feeling until the time was
ripe for crisis. The Dreyfus affair
proved to be the climax. Briefly
stated, Captain Dreyfus, Jew, was
accused of selling military
secrets TO Germany. Examined by a
military tribunal he was found
guilty aud sentenced to ala Idegrada-
tion mllitaire" ana to deportation and
hard labor for life.
His frienuS claim that he was not
guilty and was sentenced sim ply, be-
cause, beiuga Jew, he was not per-
mltted t0 have a fair chance of de-
Tending himself and because scape-
goat had to be found for some rotten
and dishonest deals, carried on at
the war office,
The documents which led to the
passing of the sentence were letters
IN the handwriting of Captain Drey-
fus, but experts did not agree on this
point. Out of flour experts, l believe,
two declared the letters to be unques.
tionably of his handwriting, while
The two others claimed it to be a
clever imitation,
For any fair-minded persons, the
question Immediately arises: IF
Drumont's statement, that the
French government, army, navy and
finances are completely inthe hands
of the Jews how could Dreyfns, a
Jew, be adjudgcd guilty and SEN
fenced, simply because he was Jew :?
In defense of the French Jews it
may be stated at once that there is
no ground whatever for accusing the
Rothchilds and other great bankers
Of lack Of patriotism or civic vir-
tue. No wealthy men eyer did more
to encourage arts, literature, sciences,
commerce, progress and civilization
than MesSrs. Alphose and Edouard de
Rothchild. Their generosity towards
all classes is proverbial.
In their great building in the Rue
Latitte, they have an admirably or
ganized charity bureau, under most
competent manager, employing doz-
ems of male and female clerks and
agent, and they have given away mil
lions, not merely to organized chari-
ties, but especially to deserving poor
of all classes, not forgetting the dis
tressed men and women of the higher
classes.
Never has deserving person, no
matter what his or her circumstances
in life used to be or actually were, ap-
piled 20 the Office in the Rue Latitte,
to whom a generous, helping hand has
not been at once extended,
Who among our patriotic American
millionaires, generous as the are,
could show such a record ?
Because many sensible French
man knows If this, there are thou
sands of Catholics in France, especi
ally among the higher classes, who
strongly oppose the anti-Jew cam
paign, which they claim is simply
playing into the hands OF Anarchists
and Socialists.