The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-10-09
1s IN AMEnIcAN e1Rn srEs Ir
Letters on the Dreyfus Case and Condition
of Affairs in Phris.

OF AuHlrh IN fnriss
The following extracts from letters writer
home by q young American girl in Paris come
fresh from the scene OF the emotional and
political crisis In which France now finds her
self. The writer ia q graduate OF one Of the
principal American colleges for women. and
during her summer spent In Paris has not only
been a diligent student OF the French news
papers but has been thrown much with army
people and men OF letters in the French capital,
so that her point OF view. while essentially
| Anglo-Saxon, has not been biased by associa-
ton with either the Dreyfus or the anti Dreyfus
sympathizers alone:
SEPT. 0.-You know. oil. course. what an ex-
REs,S % Says we' DoI SstS mv yoG X Know oSTs au iHT ' as @n lSiS
France during this, II we could only be here
desc eso%la n4%rHSRe r every one e. feels that Rit the crisis
t f. sS fTS% on dc edge Sn d r 1sft }ss ffS soPtslKnlg !.
ttu d.. Of v$ $SII{Fh{d r saar trIqBR FS.Rtd nt t basin lsss
S SGlPE 81. Of 1 ths S S'SstS q q FRrsn Atsef f Il does ,s' tr fRS sFji
and justice and honor and humanity and some
thinRs. like that above. the c~atchwords of the
"our critical situation There are plenty still.
any cost. But Us these whom the most Of tho
ElSbOh NhlI- t"O iSbN vi NhS w WIZ
enemies OF France
II course, the whole thing involves an i'm
subject oVery one. intelligent or not, ,seems to
Ming the rein to passion; and even with the IN
s snd Si9St on rt the 0on nssm ~ ss slde; vn intelIlI;tEESi s &c
fay' pi Sh ySu s sss AL ~ amSIhSle IYtt SiIS Sats 81 S Sssr
PPS so9. 70 one non 9I o Sns side RrG a.fSW Jews; on nt tke
other IL France Apparently every one WIG
to. Be a Jew here nowadays Is in itself a great
crime, and almost puts you beyond the pale Of
the eRent Of To q % s@qte With tPot Germany f Which h" liz
confidently. expects viii be the result OF. this
9Hs shs In tS Tiers P,z would stlsa BE- 3 3 P FsasR ire i Of the
gent man talking like that
about At th The END FasS ST %y rl l%dSdfi ls 81 tRd ! D Ess MT eass:
1 didn't expect the key,so soon; But the very
next day the bomb exploded-the arrest Of Col.
H%enry-and the eclqircisSe,nent began. Since
and Tor the first days / rode about the city with
news. and with. 1 fear. a bitter greed pervading
my countenance, The press has been. most
lBa r6Ees ansS PltifS S0n fsiFIy 9Tsi sise a at ff nS%% Hi1se
over the irightful condition Of things, the
f4inmp side o Si sql %teiS; t SS%TS sntf.b tRtS snG pape 9s
y ef cou R7SSk you TX Rn a0@o m sRin!S q oFt the d H%s nSE.
taken to cismoring for the revision, as the
only way Of finishing the whole dreadful bust.
t ness GOOD o1e esSs gst t 9 0ysf s at aP tYSS SSsff" es s0ms "
assuming the Dreyfus guilt as a fact. are on the
whole very far and Judicial; ,oon.r
Heaven knows whether the revision will really
Sc s6er SsSjh. or ddo on,t T befisv seem tBet s2 be ever gnd 9st
do try. / think he'll be assqsslnated; ii they
decide ,f for r the h r%eSIs'qn, ! dom II believe Si .SH he'll
the Windows2tsaken standing. in - uniform, and
Nth "A, hanl, ra1kfno an hi, ap,1rI n,,lt, "a
Sne h has haf T th ffGitl2fG Gr On a IF sTHTGi SSpmltsstlihi
yS9HI nnS and and With the ,b inevitAHSRl s gm a9st%In st but
o @ E9U %1oa ahf e Fsfeta'fi Is 't there. l and 1sfa1Rp t a sood
deal Of ge9tleness and sadness The eyes
but troubled. The 'paEers have lately been
getting up stories-the flight Of Esterhazy, the
suicide Of Esterhazy. &C.. which are quite dis
In an earlier letter; Sept; IL have really
S gprIhr a t f5lsas d SeIe 81 To- 5iR R9 sh1s sumner and canaan in eom-
almost always to. the discredit Of the French.
In comparison with my much admired German
madversions on the French soldiers, who strike
1 ne in general esn,t as a. a sloppy Inc lot co Poor fellows r.
q 9He{ the nS GeFman $. Which re e1nindsf'n me of Of
The national grief Of the army and Of
!Ittls s't % sueh t f9s s''f so !s = t RRSur oHtEsE S3
one feel how high the .eEoitemsnt runs,
SPAR about the whole affair. and to
the Dreyfua case than a war with Germany. In
which case. poor Francel" but infinitely bet
ter of at whatever cost than hitherto. with the
stain of national dishonor and cowardice. You
can imagine that for those last few days IT has
the French. opinion. seems. to my Apgio-Saxop
mind. blind and childish. with prejudice. With
most people 1t seems thoroughly an affair OF
the emotions; reason seems to have little to
say. OF course this intense race hatred OF the
Jews Is q thing too alien to US to be easy 10 I'M
derstand.